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Tijuana Makes Me Happy This page is dedicated to sharing the culture, gastronomy, and the other many things that make Tijuana such a magical place

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11/06/2025

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Hace casi cuatro décadas, un joven decidió dejar su ciudad natal con un solo sueño: hacer reír sin decir una palabra.
Con el rostro pintado de blanco, una maleta llena de esperanza y el alma inquieta, llegó a Tijuana, tierra que no pregunta de dónde vienes, solo si te atreves a intentarlo.

⚪ Empezó en las calles, sin micrófono ni reflectores.
Transformó un espacio común en una experiencia inolvidable.
Y fue ahí, en Plaza Río, donde encontró su lugar durante casi tres décadas.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Gente de todas las edades lo conoció.
Niños, turistas, familias enteras esperaban cada fin de semana para verlo actuar.
Risas, aplausos, fotografías, cariño…
Se volvió parte del paisaje emocional de Tijuana.

Pero como todo ciclo en la vida, llegó el momento de cerrar esa etapa.
Después de 28 años de presentaciones constantes en el año 2013, el Mimo Moy fue notificado de que su permanencia en ese escenario llegaba a su fin.
Sin dramas, sin escándalos. Solo un cambio, como tantos otros que la vida impone.

Y como buen artista… lo aceptó con elegancia.
No hubo reproches.
No hubo pleitos.
Solo gratitud por tantos años de aplausos y memorias.

🛤️ Pero eso no es el final.
Es el segundo acto.

Porque ese mimo que durante años pintó sonrisas en Plaza Río…
Hoy llena eventos privados.
Se presenta en nuevos espacios como Plaza Paseo 2000, donde la respuesta del público ha sido abrumadora.
Lo buscan artistas. Lo contratan familias. Cobra lo que merece.

🌟 Porque cuando el escenario cambia, el arte no desaparece…
Se transforma.

Hoy, el Mimo Moy está más vivo que nunca.
Más fuerte. Más solicitado. Más libre.
Y si algo ha aprendido en estos años es que:

Muchas felicidades al Doctor Jorge Astiazaran Orci por tan merecido reconocimiento.
29/12/2024

Muchas felicidades al Doctor Jorge Astiazaran Orci por tan merecido reconocimiento.

Por su espíritu de servicio, constancia, solidaridad y sus resultados al frente de Cruz Roja Tijuana, el doctor Jorge Astiazarán es Personaje del Año para ZETA

08/07/2024

We are living through an age of unchecked Caesar-salad fraud, Ellen Cushing writes. https://theatln.tc/5pE7sj6z

This fall, Cushing ordered a kale Caesar salad at a restaurant in Brooklyn—but instead of anchovies or croutons, she got a tangle of kale, pickled red opinion, and “sweet and spicy almonds,” dressed in a thinnish, vaguely savory liquid and topped with crème fraîche. “It was a pretty weird food,” Cushing writes. With chefs tossing in pig ear, tequila, and other wacky ingredients, when does a classic dish become something other than itself?

The legend of the Caesar salad dates back to Tijuana in 1924, when Caesar Cardini found himself overwhelmed. “Prohibition was driving celebrities, rich people, and alcoholics across the border from San Diego, and Cardini’s highly popular Italian restaurant was swamped,” Cushing reports. He tossed what he had on hand—romaine lettuce, Parmesan cheese, and a dressing of egg, oil, garlic, salt, Worcestershire sauce, and citrus juice—and the Caesar salad was born.

Changes to the recipe have been going on for decades, “swept along by and reflective of many of the biggest shifts in American dining.” In the 1980s and ’90s, as advances in agriculture, shipping, and food culture increased Americans’ access to produce, chefs started swapping out romaine for different leafy greens. “At that point, the Caesar was still found mostly in Italian American and New American restaurants,” Cushing writes. “But as ‘fusion’ took hold and culinary nationalism abated, the Caesar became a staple of Mexican American and Asian American chain restaurants.”

Today, restaurants are taking adaptations to an extreme. “Modifying the Caesar isn’t fundamentally a bad thing,” Cushing continues, “as long as the flavors resemble those of the original.”

To some degree, experimentation comes down to the obvious: “Caesar salads—even bastardized ones—rock, and people want to buy them … It’s also a format that allows for a sort of low-stakes novelty. That helps explain the rise of the fake Caesar too,” Cushing continues. “The Caesar is forever, which means it’s forever being manipulated. For better and for worse.”

🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Getty.

Caesar salad is turning 100. Meet the man who preserved the original recipe.
06/07/2024

Caesar salad is turning 100. Meet the man who preserved the original recipe.

Caesar salad is celebrating its 100th anniversary after being invented in Mexico in 1924. Meet the grandson of its inventor, Alex Cardini, who has preserved the original recipe.

01/05/2024

EL TÍO HANK Y CANTINFLAS CELEBRANDO EL DÍA DEL NIÑO

Mario Moreno “Cantinflas” y Jorge Hank Rhon celebrando el Día del Niño en el Hipódromo Agua Caliente hace 38 años (1986)

21/02/2024

Anthony Bourdain visit to Tijuana.

What makes this such an enduring Tijuana classic?
30/01/2024

What makes this such an enduring Tijuana classic?

A server wheels a cart toward the diner at the Hotel Caesar restaurant in downtown Tijuana to begin the ritual of a tableside Caesar salad, invented here, according to lore.

11/12/2023

With wineries, delicious food, sunny resorts and a storied history, it may be time to add a resurgent northern Baja California to your Mexico travel bucket list.

27/10/2023

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One day I decided I didn’t need to convince anyone to come to TJ. Regardless of whether the city is in a “renaissance” o...
07/08/2023

One day I decided I didn’t need to convince anyone to come to TJ. Regardless of whether the city is in a “renaissance” or in hard times, it deserves respect. Come if you’re cool.

Twenty years ago the hit television show 'The O.C.' traveled to Tijuana and perpetuated every negative stereotype of the city.

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30/05/2023

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El señor Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Rocha, de 51 años, falleció, pero salvó la vida de casi 100 personas a las que donó sus órganos.

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