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A friend lived in Tokyo, his #1 complaint was lack of Mexican food.

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A quick Google search of “Mexican Restaurants in Tokyo” brought up over 30 results in Tokyo. Hell, the other day I was watching the original Iron Chef from the 90s, and they brought in a Japanese Mexican Chef as a challenger.

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There’s over 30 Mexican restaurant results for my city at 1% the population of Tokyo. Sounds like it’s pretty lacking to me

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Tokyo is fucking huge, dude

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I might have expressed myself wrong, it’s not that there aren’t Mexican food places at all, it’s that they’re much more rare than in the west (and the US specifically), and usually not great.

Plus, 30+ restaurants in a city as gigantic as Tokyo is not much at all.

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There’s over 30 mexican restaurants in my town of less than 30,000 people.

Tokyo is LITERALLY the biggest city in the entire world. 30ish restaurants is absolutely a needle in a haystack.

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I calculated an estimation for the amount of the workforce in mexican food

(Mexican restaurants) * (avg workers per restaurant) / (population) = percentage of workforce

30 * 15,28 / 30 000 * 100 = 1,53%

It is probably a higher percentage because this doesn’t factor in the unemployed and you said it was less than 30 000

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Even if it were hard to find a good restaurant nearby, Greater Tokyo is fucking HUGE! I would be shocked if you couldn’t find pretty much all cuisine in or around Tokyo.

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That’s one Mexican restaurant for every 1.1 million people

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Had some great Mexican food in Tokyo!

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