Looking for Mexican Ingredients

I'll be in Japan soon, and I been promising my boyfriend and his family to cook for them Mexican food. I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find Mexican ingredients or close to, such as substitutes in Japan? To make a descent Latin dish.

Can you say what kind of ingredients exactly you are looking for? You might get more answers if you do.

Ingredients to make at least a proper Mexican dish while my stay. Such as masa, which is corn flour mix. Or green bell pepper, jalapenos, or very hot chiles, or even cilantro. I been wanting to make enchiladas and mole. But the problem is having descent ingredients to make it. Regular flour tortillas are possible to make, but I been wanting to make corn tortillas.

You best bet to find most of these items are international food stores (Kaldi Coffee shop at Aeon Malls for example), or online (http://www.fbcusa.com, http://www.themeatguy.jp). They often carry different types of corn flour and canned foods like jalapenos.

Regular grocery stores will carry green bell peppers, but Japanese ones are smaller and with thinner meat then you're probably used too. You can often find yellow and red bell peppers more like ones found in North America, but they can get expensive. Corn flour and cilantro may also be available but its pretty hit or miss.

However, I've never seen fresh jalapenos sold anywhere in Japan. Anything else that you're looking for?

Thank you so much for your help!! As of right now I can't think of anything else. But I defiantly look forward to cooking while in Japan a good Mexican dish for my family.

There are several "foreign" grocery stores throughout Japan, especially in the bigger cities. Some are attached to liqueur stores and I've seen a few at the larger train stations. But quite a bit should be available at normal super markets. :D