Best thing I ate: This ‘Mexican pizza’ makes Oaxaca proud

Critic Brad A. Johnson says this new Oaxacan restaurant in Santa Ana makes terrific tlayudas.
Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • February 24, 2021
It’s often called Mexican pizza, so it’s fitting that the tlayuda from Flor de Oaxaca in Santa Ana arrives in one those generic boxes with “pizza” emblazoned across the top. They do sort of look like pizzas. And I think people call them that...
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