Dine and Dish: El Pata Salada in Kings County

KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- El Pata Salada successful the tiny Kings County municipality of Armona isn't your emblematic Mexican eatery. This 1 offers a sensation of Mazatlan.

"We grew up eating seafood each time astatine home, similar food orceviche oregon crockery oregon whatever, everything from the ocean," says co-owner Miguel Lerma.

"People from Mazatlan are 'pata saladas' due to the fact that we unrecorded by the ocean," says co-owner Dora Lerma. "The salty foot."

Shrimp is served successful respective ways.

"On our seafood menu, it's really, truly popular," Dora said. "It's a earthy shrimp cooked successful our aguachile sauce. We person the camarones a la diabla arsenic well. The breaded shrimps, grilled shrimps and the bacon-wrapped shrimp."

The hubby and woman squad of Miguel and Dora Lerma accidental their seafood comes from Mexico, which makes their ceviche unique.

"Your sensation is antithetic erstwhile you effort the fish," Miguel said. "You don't person to navigator it. You marinate successful citrus oregon something. You consciousness the sensation successful products similar that."

Dora gave maine a Mexican enchilada.

"We fry the tortilla and the reddish chile oregon greenish chile and enactment lettuce, Mexican cheese, sour pick and pickled bulb connected top," she said.

Instead of a reddish sauce, you drizzle connected immoderate beef broth.

"It's a unsocial benignant from our state, from Sinaloa," Dora said.

All your accepted favorites are here.

"The quesabirria, shredded beef with guajio peppers and the salsa, but it's not arsenic spicy," Dora said. "We person the consommé connected the broadside truthful you tin dip the taco successful the consommé."

We besides tried the breaded fish, which was cleanable for dipping into chipotle sauce. I had to chill it disconnected with horchata.

"We person to find something, make thing and bring our nutrient here," Miguel said.

"If you travel to Pata Salada, you volition effort thing different," Dora said.

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