Anyone know about Mexican food?!

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If you must ask these questions, then my recommendation is: Don't do it. At least not yet. You're far from ready.

First you have to determine what kind of Mexican food are you going to sell. Mexico has a variety of climates, altitudes, seasonal differences and all that inflluences the food. There are regions with plenty of rain, fish, sweet water fish and shellfish, plenty of fruits and vegetables, seafood and seashells all year round, cold weather with a totally different way to eat, cold and rainy, with a different way to eat, dry and hot, dry and cold, beef eating cultures, deer eating cultures, pork eating cultures, poultry eating cultures, lamb, ram and goat eating cultures, fresh and dry produce, seasons and herbs, specialty dairy products, , bread, pastries, chorizos, dry meats, spices, herbs... etc, etc... You have to make a study un dept of what Mexican food, culture and cooking really is because you are far from ready if you think that making tortillas is going to put you there. Just for starters, there are different types of tortillas (different sizes in corn tortillas); flour tortillas are mostly eaten in the north of Mexico, while corn tortillas are eaten all over... you have to learn how to make nixtamal before you even have corn tortillas... Do you know the difference between maiz and elotes? Fajitas, burritos and all that garbage is NOT Mexican food. Better that just work in an american-mexican restaurant, go to Mexico, take some cooking classes with real mexican cooks and chefs, eat real mexican food, visit different regions in different seasons so you see for yourself and decide if you want to do it and what will be best for you to offer. Maybe you can change your menu several times per year... Reseach more in person. Whatever you decide, Good Luck!!!

I am borned and raised in Mexico where I lived for 46 years. I learned to cook the traditional way and I am a good cook. Not interested in working as such though or go to the Middle East.

I'd do more research. (I understand, that is kind of what you're trying to do here).
I will make one suggestion. Instead of bringing someone to the mideast to run the restaurant for $500/month (do I understand right? $1500 for 3 months work?), I would contact someone in Mexico who really needs a job, who makes tortillas by hand.

The people in mexico who make tortillas by hand are suffering desperately. I don't think you could get an American to risk their life in a mideast country for $500/month.

A company called "On the border", a large tex mex chain in the midwest, is closing some of their locations. They have huge tortilla machines. Contact the chain, and ask to buy one of their machines.

My suggestion would be to go work in a mexican restaurant for a few weeks or months so that you may learn what you need.
Try to work in the kitchen so that you may observe how things are prepared and handled.
Nothing beats hands on experience.

Owned a Mexican Restaurant

BEST MEXICAN FOOD IN MIAMI? ANYONE. SO I MOVED TO MIAMI ABOUT A YEAR AGO AND I CAN ... They probably would make them fresh, but I don't know if they make it

can you say beans and rice.

taco rice beans