Last night’s food-delivery surprise came through an offer on the Grubhub delivery service: for El Camaron RWC in Redwood City — which provides seafood dishes from the state of Sinaloa, plus tacos and (surprise!) Mexican-style sushi (the menu has a Sushi Sinaloa section). I went for the Mexican Japanese items: an aguachile roll and Sinaloa sashimi. Just fabulous, with enough left over for at least one more meal.
Sinaloa. From Wikipedia:
Sinaloa … is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, compose the Federal Entities of Mexico.
… Sinaloa is located in northwest Mexico and is bordered by the states of Sonora to the northwest, Chihuahua to the north, Durango to the east, and Nayarit to the southeast. To the west [on the coast], Sinaloa faces Baja California Sur, across the Gulf of California.
… Often referred to as the “breadbasket of Mexico”, Sinaloa produces about 40% of the nation’s food. Its economy is based on agriculture, fisheries, livestock breeding, tourism, mining, and food processing.
Aguachile. From Wikipedia:
Aguachile is a Mexican dish made of shrimp and raw fish fillet, submerged in liquid seasoned with chiltepin peppers [a small, round, fiery variety of chili peppers], lime juice, salt, slices of cucumber and slices of red onion. This raw seafood dish comes from the northwest region of Mexico (mainly Sinaloa), and is normally prepared in a molcajete [a stone mortar].
Mexican sushi and sashimi. The two items I ordered:
aguachile roll: inside: surimi (seafood paste), avocado, cucumber, and cream cheese; outside: aguachile shrimp with lime and onion accompanied by a special soy sauce, carrot strips, and a yellow pepper
sashimi: spicy tuna (in slabs), avocado (in slices), with special black sauce
which came with lots of with crunchy tostadas (deep-fried tortillas)
As I said, fabulous. And there’s a lot more on the menu. Not cheap, but a great find.
March 29, 2026 at 1:02 pm |
On leftovers: half of them made a nice lunch today, so there’s a third meal in that order.
March 30, 2026 at 6:20 am |
It’s nice to see a reference to Sinaloa in which the name is not immediately followed by “cartel”.
March 30, 2026 at 7:36 am |
Thank you. I took some care not to reduce the place to its criminal reputation. It is, after all, both beautiful and economically crucial to the country. I don’t know how the Japanese got into it, but I thought of the enormous wave of Japanese settlers in Brazil (they brought baseball to Brazil in 1908).