Funny enough, these tacos have Middle Eastern origins. When you see tacos al pastor meat cooking in Mexico, it is on what’s called a trompo. This translates to “top,” as in a children’s ...

To assemble one al pastor taco, the cook slices off between 2.5 and 3 ounces of pork from the trompo — “a hefty amount of meat for a taco,” according to Guijosa — then adds fresh pineapple ...