Casa Mexico, Suffolk.

As you can imagine, one of the things I miss most about living in Mexico is the food.  Mexican food is simply amazing:  the colours, smells, flavours.  Genuine Mexican food is very underrated, it's a million  miles away from the Tex-Mex and Old El Paso we are led to believe is what Mexican's eat every day.  Because of this, it can be really hard to find authentic Mexican products in England and even harder when you live in rural Suffolk.  However, last year Casa Mexico opened up in Stonham Aspal, a small village here in Suffolk.

We finally got round to visiting the shop last week and stepping inside the former pub was like arriving back in Mexico.  It's a treasure trove of all things truly Mexican.  It stocks all kind of Mexican goodies: from glassware to art to groceries.  

We, of course, headed straight to the food section of the shop! It brought back so many happy memories and cravings for authentic Mexican food.  There were fresh flour tortillas, corn tortillas, tinned salsas, refried beans, dried fijoles, totopos, sweets... so many delicious goodies!  I could have easily bought one of everything but instead I limited myself to a few bits and pieces, ready to make a Mexican bank holiday feast.  

The owner explained to us that they used to live in Guadalajara for 15 years and all of goods were bought in Tonalá (which is where I used to work out there).  It's so nice to be able to chat about Guadalajara here in England as it's something that we've had to almost leave behind.  

Everything was very reasonable priced, considered it has to be imported from the other side of the world.  We picked up tortillas, totopos, salsa and sweets for around £6.  I will definitely go back to visit this little slice of Mexico in sunny Suffolk!