La Cahua del Yeyo
Ocampo 1542, Zonaeste, Tijuana, BC 22000
La Cahua del Yeyo's original location — since 1996 — was on the corner of 8th Street and Sirak Baloyan. It moved half a block away, and the new spot looks similar to the original: an unfinished, improvised, dive-y shack with plastic chairs and tables. Featured by Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre Foods in 2009, menu items include cahuamanta soup, made with manta ray, a gelatinous meat with a strong sea flavor. La Cahua also has shrimp, octopus, moronga (blood sausage), marlin, and chilpacholi (blue crab stew). All are available in a variety of forms and combinations: a soft shell taco, a hard shell taco (taco dorado), “taco Lalo” (from a secret menu, it’s a hard shell inside a soft shell), as an order, or in a soup (named “jugo vichi”).