Spit Cart · Trompo Pork Taco
Tacos Árabes
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Tacos árabes, made with Lebanese pita-style pan árabe bread, are considered the direct ancestor of tacos al pastor — Lebanese immigrants in Puebla adapted their shawarma spit years before the dish evolved into pastor in Mexico City.
Marinated pork is stacked and roasted on a vertical spit exactly like shawarma, then shaved and wrapped in a soft wheat flatbread rather than a corn tortilla. Street carts around downtown Puebla still serve it in this original wheat-wrap style.
Why it's made this way: Lebanese immigrants who settled in Puebla created this dish in the 1930s, giving Puebla a strong claim on the origin of Mexico's whole spit-roasted-pork taco tradition.
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