La Norteña Tamale Factory — Restaurant in Odessa

I’ll have to say, the attendant was beyond beautiful & kind….i sampled one before I decided to make my 2 dozen purchase. I thought they tasted similar to the ones I have purchased in the past from the saucedo tamale factory. So where I wasn’t completely sold, I had already made the drive & no one else had any (that I had called) I should’ve gone with my gut instinct & just bought them at Rosa’s cafe (& theirs aren’t that great either). I was looking for those authentic tamales, like the ones you get at Garibaldys across the coliseum (they were closed) Needless to say, I need to start making my own so I’m not getting constantly disappointed with taste & quality. I’ll be calling for a refund & im hoping they are as kind as they were when I handed over my card to pay $41.60 Rhe one I sampled was okay 👌 However, the second one I got when I arrived home, well as much as I tried to smother it in the salsa & lemon (that the nice girl at the window added in my bag) They were still a bit tough, as if they’d been there a while…..I won’t knock them, I’m sure not all the food is the same. But tamales is not...

So disappointed! Picadillo tasted like “can meat”. I think bcuz it’s been refrigerated and reheated too many times. Menu said made with hatch Chile ….. I think I might have seen something green, maybe that was the hatch? Never saw anything green resembling green chile. Rice was undercooked …… hard and bland. Maybe try adding onions, garlic, more tomato sauce bcuz some rice grains were white while others were red from the tomato sauce. No flavor whatsoever. So disappointed bcuz the menu description made me crave it. We ended up going to pickup burgers and will most likely trash the picadillo and rice. The beans were...

I love the green chicken tamales. This last time, they came wrapped in a parchment paper, wasn't corn husk. The price had gone up to $21 a dozen, from the last time I was there, which was $19. The tamale had more masa, than meat, and that makes it tough for me to continue buying. At the very least, have the meat inside to back the price that's being asked for them. I've been buying these tamales for more than 15 years, from their place in Pecos. I continued to pay the extra as time went on, as I'm sure Inflation has something to do with it. I'll still continue to buy them, just not as often, because they still hit on a...