San Jose Mexican Foods was one of the vendors at the Culinary Market at the Festival of Trees in Mississauga. I was pretty excited to see this there as it was advertised as carrying authentic Mexican food. They had empanadas at 2 for $8. I'm assuming this was because the empanadas needed to be portable but they were stored in pairs within zip top bags inside of what look liked a big slow cooker. This meant that there was a lot of moisture locked into the bags. I can't say I've ever had an empanada like this. I've tried Colombian and Cuban ones, both which had a hard pastry-like texture on the outside - like a pie shell almost. These ones were verrry soft. Almost like a cornbread or something but softer. The pluses were that the dough had a very nice corn flavour and the inside was pretty much solid cheese and we very much like cheese! The downsides were that...that was kind of it. A soggy exterior pastry and just cheese. The cheese was kind of in a rough paste and not of a melty type. This wasn't bad but it definitely wasn't good. I was super happy that I was able to go 1 and 1 with a friend because I definitely couldn't have made it through another one of those. read more