New Mexican food is similar in some respects to regular mexican food. Since I'm sure that you, fellow noder, are familiar with normal mexican food, I will simply list a few distinguishing characteristics. New Mexican food is usually slathered in either green chile sauce, or red chile sauce. This is not a meaty stew like chili in Texas, but rather chopped up chiles. As far as I know, green chiles only grow in this state. Other things peculiar to New Mexican food include carne adovada, flat enchiladas (sorta like lasagna), tamales and menudo. Black olives, sour cream, guacamole, seafood and Kung Pao Chicken are NOT part of the dialect.