Macho Tacos - A Rant: A Voice in the WIlderness

Machos Tacos.. this isn't about you as much as its about the dire dire state of Mexican food in our fine nation.  I don't know why its so difficult to create a fantastic burrito.  There's a joke that says Mexican food is just the same ingredients repackaged differently..... funny because it's so true.  Cheese, rice, beans, salsa, guacamole, tortillas, meat and sour cream...that's it, that's basically all is needed to make your favorite Mexican dishes.  Am I to believe that our cheese and meats are somehow inferior? That the delicate art of burrito rolling and tortilla flattening are somehow lost to us? I refuse to believe that, yet until further evidence is presented to me, that is the sad world that we are living in.  A world in which I cannot get a fantastic burrito in Taiwan.

Now, I fully realize the law of supply and demand, and that in this case, there just might not be that much demand for Mexican food here.  But i can not be the lone voice crying in the wilderness, and if Machos Tacos is somewhere near the top of the Mexican food pyramid, then we need to take a wrecking ball to it and start from the bottom up.
To be perfectly honest, the food wasn't terrible and i enjoyed it perfectly fine:

pardon the use of the ketchup.

It's just that i've had so much better, and i don't see where the difficulty arises from.  Apparently there is a algorithm that only Mexicans are privy to in their distribution of ingredients.  As you can see from the picture of the carnitas burrito, the meat is a little bit dry and the coloring just isn't particularly appetizing.  

It is my contention that it is easier to produce a quality taco/quesadilla/ etc. than it is to create the work of food art that is a magnificent burrito.  The meat should be slightly charred, one half of it shouldn't fall through the bottom during consumption, the aforementioned ingredients ratio needs to be spot on... i mean really.. how hard can it be? (honestly, i don't know.. someone please inform me).  

So to sum up, Machos Tacos is fine and I'm almost definitely go back sooner rather than later, but the national crisis of middling to decent Mexican food goes on... the search will continue. Until next time.