Taco Bell

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

There is a small Mexican food/fast food shop in the KSR area.... I've been there before... nothing much.... marginal food....

It may be "Taco Something". But the one I've been to there clearly wasn't a "Taco Bell". So these reports make me curious...

That said.... do Mexicans boil their part beef meat fillings in plastic bags before serving, same like TB??? I never saw that in Mexico before...

[DP25]

There is a small Mexican food/fast food shop in the KSR area.... I've been there before... nothing much.... marginal food....

It may be "Taco Something". But the one I've been to there clearly wasn't a "Taco Bell". So these reports make me curious...

That said.... do Mexicans boil their part beef meat fillings in plastic bags before serving, same like TB??? I never saw that in Mexico before...

There was a small Mexican fast food place called Mexican Tartars that had decent food, but they've gone out of business. Don't think there is any Mexican food in the KSR area anymore unless there is a new one I haven't been too

[Backwoods]

Hey guys, I have an update about Taco Bell, well, no new useful information, but a story. On Tuesday my friend who also works at my school asked his students (the ones that were eating Taco Bell) if they could please tell us where they got the Taco Bell from so we could go there for lunch. They said they weren't sure but they would bring some for us on Friday. Well low and behold at 10:30 this morning they knocked on the door to our office and gave us a box full of tacos from Taco Bell with three Dr. Peppers. Still haven't figured out where it was but had some Taco Bell for lunch!

I call "BS" on this post as, if there is one in Thailand, the company doen't know about it!! Tell them students I will pay quadrupel for the same order, and even do a pickup, if its real!! I travel for taste I like, and have found a few OK spots here in BKK, but have a taste for Taco Bell, even if it is junk food! And by the way I am serious about ordering, so this is a good way to call out the students!

[pmarlin]

Hey guys, I have an update about Taco Bell, well, no new useful information, but a story. On Tuesday my friend who also works at my school asked his students (the ones that were eating Taco Bell) if they could please tell us where they got the Taco Bell from so we could go there for lunch. They said they weren't sure but they would bring some for us on Friday. Well low and behold at 10:30 this morning they knocked on the door to our office and gave us a box full of tacos from Taco Bell with three Dr. Peppers. Still haven't figured out where it was but had some Taco Bell for lunch!

In your dreams maybe. Not nice to BS like this.

[koknia]

Yum Thailand seems to have the rights. You could email them and ask.

[DP25]

I call "BS" on this post as, if there is one in Thailand, the company doen't know about it!! Tell them students I will pay quadrupel for the same order, and even do a pickup, if its real!! I travel for taste I like, and have found a few OK spots here in BKK, but have a taste for Taco Bell, even if it is junk food! And by the way I am serious about ordering, so this is a good way to call out the students!

Yeah, seems like some kind of bizarre troll

[kwestroc]

Hi guys. If I was in your position I'd probably say it was BS true. I still haven't found out where it is and I've given up. I can't explain where these kids got the packaging and what not. They had cups with adverts for the 2011 MTV Music Awards on the side, which means it's up to date since the event was at the end of this past August. I don't know, it's really bizarre and will go down as one of my best days in this country and most bizarre to get food from a restaurant that apparently doesn't exist. And to all that think I'm pulling their chain, I assure you I'm not. I'm just as curious as you are.

[madjbs]

How hard is it to ask the person eating it where they bought it from?

[kwestroc]

Extremely hard when they won't tell you where and even when they give you it, still refuse to tell you where they got it from.

[WarpSpeed]

Extremely hard when they won't tell you where and even when they give you it, still refuse to tell you where they got it from.

That'd make me real leery about eating it..

[kwestroc]

I felt the same way but it looked all too real to be fake. My colleagues and I had quite a bit of tacos they brought in and none of us got sick.

[kyb789]

I am dying for a fix. I was in Villa Market the other day and saw Taco Bell brand taco shells for sale. Go figure. Actually, if the corporates would just pay attention, they would have noticed that the market for mexican food has exploded in Thailand the past 3 years. I am seeing mexican food products sold everywhere in the stores, and the shelves are expanding.

[KRS1]

I dare you to post pics of the mystical Taco Bell wrapper, with your username written on a piece of paper next to it.

[bonobo]

It really isn't hard to make Taco Bell-type tacos. The shells are available here as is the seasoning. Add the beef, lettuce, and tomato, and all you need to do is figure out which sauce most matches the Taco Bell sauce.

I make carnitas or carne asado more often, but every once in awhile, I get a hankering for fast food tacos, so I make them myself, but with real tortillas which I fry rather than use the shells. This is more of a Jack-in-the-Box fast food taco, but I like them.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Lately, I've been making my own at home...

Homemade frijoles from scratch starting from dry red kidney beans, which I've surprisingly found I prefer to pintos in my homemade version...

Ground beef mixed with a half jar of the hottest El Sapo jarred salsa.

Burrito sized flour torillas...

El Sapo salsa and flour torillas readily available at Villa Markets....

500g bags of dry red kidney beans and ground beef available pretty much everywhere.

[Backwoods]

It really isn't hard to make Taco Bell-type tacos. The shells are available here as is the seasoning. Add the beef, lettuce, and tomato, and all you need to do is figure out which sauce most matches the Taco Bell sauce.

I make carnitas or carne asado more often, but every once in awhile, I get a hankering for fast food tacos, so I make them myself, but with real tortillas which I fry rather than use the shells. This is more of a Jack-in-the-Box fast food taco, but I like them.

Villa on soi 33 has Taco Bell sauce,(med), and can get their seasoning as well as sauces, but I am one of those who is mind driven and cannot make it seem to taste the same at home! If the OP is a teacher and getting food from students, maybe his grades should go up for reliable info!!

As far as sauces, Villa has a great selection, just not a lot are hot! Dorito's, Tostino's, Chi Chi's, El Sapo, Taco bell Old El Paso, just a few and several brands of Hard shell as well as flour tortillas, some fress tomatoes, lettuce, sour cream, you can get it all there, one stop! Top that with a Mt Dew or Dr Pepper...............

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

As far as sauces, Villa has a great selection, just not a lot are hot! Dorito's, Tostino's, Chi Chi's, El Sapo, Taco bell Old El Paso, just a few

Most of those sauces you mention are little more than glorified tomato sauces....

El Sapo, for its part, has three different varieties and levels of spice... each with a different color jar... The hottest of the 3 is in the red jars and labeled "salsa picante."

While hardly the same as fresh made, for a jarred salsa, it's quite good and carries (for me) a decent amount of fire... For others' tastes, maybe too much. But whichever one you pick, they're probably the best of the lot that's available here.

[dantilley]

A picture of said packaging would probably shed some light on this.

[wook]

tacobellthailand dot com

[NanaFoods]

Taco Bell is not, repeat not Mexican food. However, it does serve junk food which tastes OK. If there was one here, I would certainly go there sometimes.

In the US, one of my weaknesses is the Jack-in-the-Box taco, a deep-friend tortilla-beef thing which is also not Mexican, but it tastes good.

I can't make a tortilla to save my life, so I bring them back from the US and make more authentic Mexican food on my own.

I'd argue that that JITB's taco is more akin to a Mexican "taco dorado" than Taco Bell's.

That is, if you disregard the pasty-texture meat...

That said, I used to enjoy eating both from time to time in my youth... especially after a "session".

Tacos Dorados:

[Backwoods]

After a little research, Yum foods say there is no venue in Thailand. So, if someone is giving you Taco Bells Tacos, they are like everything elase in Thailand, FAKE!!!