El Algavero – The Mexican experience

We arrived at El Agavero located inside the mall named after the water table in front of it. As we entered, we immediately forgot about the sea mirroring the sky on a day of rain-colored clouds. The wall is decorated with colorful Mexican masks and the guitars of the musical chords that characterize the “corrido”, a musical genre made famous by “la cucaracha”. Another guitar between the legs of a mannequin dressed in a serape (woolen shawl), posing as someone tired of the choreography that makes Mexico a country crossed by the tequila-river. The margaritas, which we would soon try, are just a sample of the plurality of ways in which tequila can reach our mouths.

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The margaritas, which we would soon try, are just a sample of the plurality of ways in which tequila can reach our mouths.

And then we notice the sentence by Frida Khalo, Mexico’s best-known visual artist who painted time and her pains, which elevated her to a pop symbol: “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolutionizes, everything flies and goes.” It is as if she reminds us of life slipping away like the sand in the hourglass. Living is a verb too big to reach in the conjugation of the heart, the hands, the eyes, the ears and the mouth, the experiences of the world. And El Agavero is the Mexican experience verb. We understand why Speedy Gonzales – the speed mouse – says “arriba, arriba, andele, andele” – or that Pat Boone song shouted in English with a Mexican accent: “Hey, Rosita, I have to go shopping downtown for my mother. She needs some tortillas and chili peppers!” El Agavero is all about tortillas, but also about churros, nachos, quesadilla de chorizo, tacos res with chili guajillo, enchilada de pollo pibil and much more. All dishes marked by Mexican ingredients and seasonings that are not foreign to the Mozambican flavor geographies that are always so open to the world.
The winds that bring the night also change the rhythms. We listen to electronic music, amapiano, afropop. The Mexican night is a country without walls.

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