Taco Nights at Tiki Monster

Tiki Monster H2O 7731 Katella Avenue, Suite A Huntington Beach, CA 92648 (323) 533-6702 Listing on Yelp Listing on Menuism Facebook Page

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Park Ave. may have put Stanton on the map but Tiki Monster is helping it to stay. Tiki Monster is first about inexpensive, alkaline water that you can get for only 20¢ a gallon, second about a huge selection of craft sodas, and third about Taco Nights, mainly on Tuesdays and Fridays. And they make the tacos out in front on a grill and they even have a trompo for making al pastor tacos. The Taco Nights tend to go from about 7 to 11pm and they tend to post on Facebook shortly before they start. Oh, and Tiki Monster is also about tiki memorabilia, old movie posters, old punk, reggae and metal posters, old video games, etc. This place is about as anti-corporate as it can get. Come on out. It's a little west of the Beach and Katella intersection.

After you indulge in as many tacos as you can you can finish up your meal with a sweet corn/elote helado (ice cream bar) that also has French and Korean writing on the wrapper:

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Fred's Mexican Cafe

Holé Molé 300 Pacific Coast Hwy Ste 201 Huntington Beach, CA 92648 (714) 374-8226 Listing on Trip Advisor Listing on Stock Team Official Site

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Hole Mole

Holé Molé 14430 Newport Ave Tustin, CA 92780 (714) 505-2502 Facebook Page Listing on Place123 Official Site

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Holé Molé is a place that started in Long Beach and built up to 5 locations there and I had it recommended to me but never made it to one until shortly after one opened in Tustin. I was figuring it's be all about molé (you know, Pueblan molé, Oaxacan molé, etc.) but it was more like a Rubio's that has a number of items but focuses on fish tacos with the small difference that they also have one molé dish on the menu; well, you can get it in a bowl or a burrito. It's a standard, acceptable mole served over cubed chicken. I'd venture to guess that the people who started it wanted to start a fish taco joint and they thought the name Holé Molé sounded clever so they went with that and threw a molé dish on the menu just so the name would make some sense. And… I'm fine with that. They also have a dessert I've never seen anywhere else and when I see a Mexican dessert I've never seen anywhere else I tend to get it. This one is called "Flanquitos" and from the promo picture I saw of it I thought it was three taquitos surrounding a flan. Turns out it's three taquitos stuffed with flan and surrounding a dollop of whipped cream. Gooey and creamy and crisp and cinnamon-y all at the same time. Very satisfying.

Flanquitos

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As a bonus, here's a Cooliris album (direct link in case it doesn't show up here on whatever device you're on) from when Abby of Pleasure Palate went on a fish taco crawl with some friends in Los Angeles. Looks like their first stop was Holé Molé: