LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Meals, Folklorico, and enjoyable may be anticipated on the annual Tamales and Mariachi Pageant which returns to downtown Las Vegas with the tastes, sights, and sounds of Mexico.
Native distributors from throughout the valley will arrange store to serve the neighborhood a number of the finest tamales on the town, together with family-owned tamale store Tamales La Reina.
“This is of big significance to us because we can showcase our culture of tamales and Mariachi to the general public,” mentioned Naomi Mora, supervisor at Tamales La Reina.
A brand new restaurant to hit the Las Vegas market, Tamales La Reina opened their storefront on East Bonanza eight months in the past. There’s a wide range of menu objects, however the restaurant specializes within the vacation favourite tamales, a dish acknowledged as a logo of unity, celebration, and neighborhood.
“(Tamales) bring a lot of people (and) families together. It’s a big tradition to make them with the entire family (during Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year),” mentioned Mora. “Some families dedicate a whole day to making tamales for dinner the (following) day.”
Their conventional tamales embrace rooster, pork, and jalapeno with cheese. Additionally they supply extra trendy flavors and dessert flavors like strawberry cream cheese and pineapple coconut. They are going to have a wide range of contemporary, selfmade tamales out there for the primary time at this 12 months’s Tamales and Mariachi Pageant.
Along with tamales, the pageant options stay leisure, performances from Mariachi teams, a wide range of artisan distributors, neighborhood sources, and actions for youngsters. The Tamales and Mariachi Pageant takes place Saturday, Dec. 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Historic Fifth Road College. For extra info, go to this hyperlink.
