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Even armed with number of guides, I was at a loss to read most menus or street vendor food signs in Mexico City. So, here's a list of the words that you may encounter in the city - feel free to do a web or dictionary search, my explanations (where available) are only approximate!

al mojo de ajo - fish with garlic?

alambre - meat, onions, peppers, bacon, all grilled, on a tortilla, optionally with hot layer of cheese on top

arranchera - thin sliced grilled steak, with spices and cilantro

cafe de olla - black coffe, with sugar, and maybe sweet spices

cecina - beef, thin sliced, salted, dried in the sun

chicharron - pork rinds - boil pork skin then bake it and/or fry

chicharron de queso - at Charco de las Ranas, crepe-like cheese dish

chuleta - pork chop

churros rellenos - con chocolate, cajeta o lechera - filled churros, with chocolate, or milk-caramel, or sweetened condensed milk

costilla - T-bone steak (?)

cuerno de jamon

enfrijoladas - tortillas dipped in mashed black beans, served with chile de arbol hot sauce

estilo español - spanish style, for example, chocolates estilo español

frijoles - beans
- charros - "cowboy" beans - long cooked, with bacon, chorizo, onions, cumin, oregano, chillies, etc
- de la olla con totopos - pinto beans, with fried tortillas (?)
- refritos - refried beans

machitos de carnero - sheep intestine, boiled, braided, and then fried

maciza - boneless pork meat

milanesa - sandwich, with thin slice of meat, and possibly avocado, onion, chillies, etc

nopal - fleshy part of cactus

pasta seca, pasta seca surtida - cookies?

picante normal, or mas picante - normal hot spice, or more hot spice

pizza - rebanada, personal, familiar - pizza - slice, small, or regular

quesadilla comalera - antojitos? at cafe tacuba

quesos - cheeses
- cazuela de queso fundido - clay pot mexican cheese fondue
- choriqueso - chorizo and cheese
- volcan

quesito zarzamora - donut with a kind of cheese?

sincronizada - tortilla sandwich

sopes - fried, stuff tortillas, not to be confused with sopas - soups!

tacos
- al pastor - sliced pork, grilled on a vertical rotating spit
- de carne asada al carbon, grilled meat, with many choices of garnishes
- de fritanges - fried meat, cooked in a special pan with a deep well
- de cabeza - head parts
- de carnitas - pork meat, various body parts
- costilla - ribs
- corazon - heart
- cuerito - skin
- higado - liver
- oerjas - ears
- nana - uterus
- surtida
- maciza - boneless pork meat
- cachete - cheek
- trompa - snout
- ojo - eye
- molleja - neck
- sesos - cow brains
- suadero - thin cuts of breast-bone beef meat
- longaniza - pork sausage

tinga - stewed pork