Los Tamaleros

Last week was the first time buying tamales from Los Tamaleros. I am a big fan of chicken tamales. They have really good chicken tamales and very spicy salsas which I was happy about. Now today was a different experience. The food trucks here in North Hollywood come every Thursdays from 5 to 9 PM I believe. I went to get tamales and I ordered three chicken tamales and one pork tamal. I get home, eat my chicken tamal and then I noticed that I have three pork tamales instead of just 1 like I had ordered. So I eat one pork tamal and it was ok. The meat is a bit dry for me but they do add a good amount of meat. So I go back to the food truck and I let them know that my order was incorrect and that they need to give me two chicken so that I can give them back 2 pork that are still warm and in their husk. They kindly let me keep the two pork as they will just give me two chicken tamales for free. So they give me another one of their bags with my 2 chicken tamales. I didn’t bother to look inside because it felt heavy and since these tamales are very well loaded with meat, I didn’t think to see inside the bag.
I get back from that 2^nd trip and look in my bag and my boyfriend notices that I have a very huge tamal. I told him it was two tamales in the tin foil but as I open it, it turned out to be a huge fully loaded steak burrito. I was not going to go back and get my two chicken tamales because I was so hungry and tired of driving. I ended up eating half of the burrito which was good. The burrito is fully loaded and make it worth your money, well in my case this burrito was free because… well I really don’t know if they have someone inside the truck not double checking the orders but I ended up not getting my 2 chicken tamales but a steak burrito. Next week when I go by I will get my chicken tamales and triple check to see if I get my right order. Don’t get me wrong the woman who work there are very nice, you just need to check to see that you get your order right before you leave. Thank you Tamaleros!!!

It’s weird that Unilocal hasn’t figured out how to do food trucks yet. They just stick them on a map somewhere. Last night, they were at Our HUGE Granada Hills food truck night and my wife and I had ALMOST authentic Mexican food from them. Nothing is quite like Mexico, but this truck did a pretty good job at getting it close. The meal was AMAZING! A few things they didn’t do was use white corn tortillas like they do in Mexico (instead, they use yellow corn for some reason… Cheaper?).
Any way, it really grinds my gears when Mexican places claim to be authentic but are not even close. These guys came very close! A little taste of Mexico. :)