Taco Gobernador, Tijuana Style

Tijuana’s seafood restaurants are as good as any in Mexico. This smoked fish taco with melted cheese and a pink sauce is popular in the Tijuana area, owing perhaps to the fact that smoked fish was once a staple of the local diet. Western Baja California, with its hundreds of miles of Pacific coastline, is famous for smoked fish made from huge game fish such as marlin and tuna. The original “governor’s taco” (so-named because of its luxurious ingredients) is thought to have originated in Sin