You're never that far from a Mexican restaurant. From marketplace, I'm

Sabrie Beneshore, and for David Brancaccio. First, US and British strikes

against Yemen have not thus far made the Red Sea any more welcoming to

commercial ships. Yemen's Houthi groups has said it will now attack US and

British ships in solidarity with Palestinians. Japanese shipping company Nippon Usen

today became the latest firm to suspend transit

through the Red Sea.

Nippan Usen stock closed up 2.7% on the Nikk.

Roughly one in 10 restaurants in the U.S. serves Mexican food.

That is according to the Pew Research Center, which also found that 85 percent of U.S.

counties have at least one Mexican restaurant, though those restaurants are

concentrated in California and Texas. Reporting from Houston, the second largest hub for Mexican

food in the country is Marketplace's Elizabeth Troval.

At Houston eatery, Tamales Don Pepe, owner René Hidalgo stands behind the front

counter. I managed the place, I many of the salsa, the food. This is his second

Mexican restaurant in Houston. He began as a dishwasher and has seen the landscape of Mexican

cuisine evolve in the Houston area since he moved here in the

1990s.

Now more people know that there's not just Texas Mexico, there's so many other type of Mexican food.

His menu represents the bites he grew up with in Mexico City.

Sopes, Guaraches, enpanadas, all those are very typical from Mexico City.

The first Tex-Max restaurant opened in West born in the 1980s.

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