Tamales on Surfliner Cafe menu

[Bob Dylan]

 

[gswager]

One of my coworker"s wife makes tamales -sweet, pork, and chicken, few times this summer and sells to co workers and me. I think it's $8 for half dozen. Sweet tamale is a little too sweet for my taste but I like red pork. Local Mexicans make tamales during Christmas season.

 

[dogbert617]

Yeah, I'd never even heard of them but when I googled it, there were lots of recipe sites showing how to make them. For people like me, however, who'd rather buy them from someone familiar with a kitchen, I'm not thus far finding them where I live.

I wish I was more into cooking myself, sigh! If I had more confidence in my ability to cook, I would try one of those online recipes to make a pineapple tamale. Sadly I don't, and ugh I feel like I'm a little behind in knowing how to cook, vs. too many others who are better at this, except for basic things like cooking something in an oven or microwave, or very basic things like eggs and pancakes.

Interesting that pineapple tamales are rare outside of SoCal. I've grown up eating pineapple, strawberry and just plain sweet tamales. Menu would always list the usual savory kind and 1 or 2 sweet varieties. I live in Orange County and been getting all of my Tamales in Orange County but here's some good ones that I buy at:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/tamaleria-rincon-sinaloense-orange-2
https://www.yelp.com/biz/el-molino-de-oro-lake-forest

Below are some menu pictures. You will see that sweet tamales, including pineapple ones are very common here. (Have not eaten at these ones.)
https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/tamaras-tamales-los-angeles?select=TiXKRNgU3Jtz_pUsEunrAw
https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/tamales-alberto-los-angeles-2?select=gqtGTORAWvVli_IKY-ujKQ
https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/sandras-tamales-los-angeles-2?select=sQHceJx2uGiDbf0CnaDqTQ
https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/tamaleria-rincon-sinaloense-orange-2?select=dhROlkIa8Siu8H7uIki03g

One of these days, I want to do an LA area trip. I certainly will search on yelp and other review sites(i.e. google, tripadvisor), which places serve pineapple tamales! Thanks for mentioning those places on yelp, since now I will look up the yelp reviews of each of those places.

 

[Asher]

Here in LA Pupasos are what Salvadorians feature for hand held food, while Tacos are mainly Mexican. The Koreans jumped into the market with their style Tacos. Very popular.