Ruben's Homemade Tamales

Reviews

• ★★★★★ Pork Tamales Visited Dec 10, 2019

  Best Tamales I've Had. Lots of Filling, Amazing Flavor.

  I've been buying tamales here for over 20 years and not found anywhere else with better ones.
  
  If you arrive and think it looks like a gas station or something, your in the right place. Theres no
  seating, the insides are drink fridges and chip stands. It looks like a corner store. But there is a tamale kitchen in back. Just walk up to the register and tell them how many dozen you want. Theres usually a sheet attached to the counter with pricing by the half dozen.
  
  Pork, bean, and other flavors are available most the year, but during the holiday season selection is reduced to just pork and sometimes 1 other flavor in order to try and keep up with demand. Lines can sometimes wrap around the corner up to a half block away at Christmas and Thanksgiving.
  
  What makes the pork tamales so great here, is they have amazing flavor, and actually have a good amount of meat in them. I hate nothing more than tamales that are all masa and almost no meat. These are not. You wont just eat one, or two.. I usually eat about 4-6 in a single sitting and they arent skinny. They are just that good.
  
  I've frozen them before, I've even taken them on road trips in the ice chest. I once microwaved some at a hotel and had people offering to buy them from me as the smell fill the lobby.
  
  I highly recommend stopping in and buying a dozen, once you have them you will be coming back.

  — Paul