Even though @huevossg is an astonishingly tiny Mexican restaurant along North Bridge Road, it’s the perfect place for terrific tacos on #tacotuesday. The taco list at Huevos is impressively extensive, numbering eleven taco options in total. Due to seeing Guga repeatedly whipping up birria tacos on YouTube, and the rarity of said tacos in Singapore, I instinctively selected a pair of them for $13++.⠀
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Not gonna lie, I really wish I’d gotten a trio for $17++ instead. These wheat tortillas were filled with a mix of shredded stewed beef brisket & short ribs, cheese & pico de gallo, and they nothing short of totally transcendent. Even though the brisket & short ribs weren’t gonna win an award for ‘most tender meat’, they made up for that with spades of flavour & fat within. The beef had assimilated the delectable qualities from the stock it had been simmered in, and I could taste spicy peppers, oregano and cumin alongside the savouriness of the stock used.⠀
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The beef doesn’t just go into the tortillas simply like that, oh no. The fat rendered from the birria stew is used to fry the tortillas, which are loaded up with the tantalising beef & a judicious amount of shredded cheese, then quickly folded over to create these tremendous tacos. The tortillas are delightfully crunchy, giving way to the softness of the sapid beef inside, and all these fragments are held together by the sexy, stretchy melted cheese.⠀
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The birria tacos already plenty tasty on its own, but you ain’t doing birria right if you ain’t dipping your tacos into the beef consommé. The consommé adds extra salty & beefy deliciousness to the already flavourful tacos, and an extra layer of heat from the spices within.⠀
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These breathtaking birria tacos changed my life for just thirteen bucks a pair, and I DO wanna taco ‘bout it.