How has mexican food influenced food preparation techniques and the foods eaten in Australia?

Utensils, how the food is cooked, effect on our diet, etcHow has mexican food influenced food preparation techniques and the foods eaten in Australia?
Australia/Mexico???....This makes NO sense.How has mexican food influenced food preparation techniques and the foods eaten in Australia?
Sorry to tell you this but Mexican cuisine does not use a lot of pepper as stated earlier. What is used commonly are green chiles. These are hotter than the common capsicum of red, green, yellow and orange bell peppers which tend to be much sweeter and less spicy.

The range of chiles used go from the very hottest Habanero to the least hot; the Poblano.

As for Mexican influences in Australia that baffles me. Aussies, whom I love as a people, don't really know much about hot foods. A friend in Sydney was determined that I would eat 'Mexican Food' in a seaside restaurant. What I had was their version of chicken enchiladas with green chile sauce - actually made from green bell pepper - green beans and new potatoes were the vegetables; hardly Mexican.

My family has been in the New Mexican - NEW as in New Mexico - restaurant business for more than fifty years and they, not I, are expert at the game.

The best ethnic food in Australia, for my money, is to be found in their many Chinese and Cambodian restaurants; hot, spicy and very tasty.

That may not be an answer but it tells you what one 'Mericun thinks of Aussie-Mex.How has mexican food influenced food preparation techniques and the foods eaten in Australia?
to be honest the coriander (cilantro) and chilli's used in a lot of cooking here in Australia has to do more with the asian influence, there isn't a whole lot of Mexican influence going on at all.



http://oldelpaso.com.au/ - the only mexican influence i know of is good old, old el paso kits.How has mexican food influenced food preparation techniques and the foods eaten in Australia?
Maybe showing that meals dont always have to be meat and 3 veg,fried or grilled with the veg boiled to within an inch of their lives instead it gives ideas of nutritious healthy cooked meats with fresh salads that dont need to be boiled to death and foods that are easy to prepare.
Cilantro is a common ingredient, as are peppers, in both Mexican and Australian cuisine.



Edit: My Australian Uncle grows his own peppers...jalapenos, serranos, etc. They cook very many dishes w/ cilantro and spices w/ peppers in their Sustralian cuisine.