Tamale Spaceship

i love having fun.  especially if i'm downtown on my bike on a sunny winter day.  i've been thinking about tamale spaceship for weeks since i began craving tamales.  

i saw the lent special fish tamale.  i had to get that & an order of the queso/poblanos rajas. i hit it early because i knew that they run out.  why?  because it's the best freakin' food you can get in the vicinity of where it's parked.  monroe & clark is pretty much a culinary wasteland.

i've never had a fish tamale before!  it was awesome!  accompanied with a gorgeous red sauce with green olives & huge slices of garlic!

the poblanos rajas were excellent & had quite the kick!  delicious sauce as well!  

these are about twice the size as the average street tamale & pretty masa heavy.  however, the masa is light & the awesome diverse sauces that are served with them are there for a reason-so you can sponge it all up.  it's damn good!  no one serves their tamales with sauces.

they threw in some free guac, which i've also been craving lately.  also kicking with lovely thin radish slices!

i shall return weekly until i burn out.

I dig tamales. And these tamales were really good. Went with the Picturesque tamal de Puercov cause everything else that sounded great was sold out. But yes, for the money I could also get a whole bag of tamales that aren't as fancy but still stellar from the tamale guy.

My 300th review!!! oh the pressure.

Tamale space ship likes to hang out outside of my building (wacker/madison) and I like tamales and I LOVE a dude wearing a luche libre mask. So naturally....

I give all the tamales an average B or B- ranking. they are hot and flavorful and I'm a BIG fan of their various sauces BUT they can be dry and they are so often out-of-stock of the kind I want (that's probably mean of me to say - since they are a food truck - but it happens all the time, and early in the day)
They also claim they sell t-shirts but they've been out of stock whenever I've asked. The staff are nice and fun and let people take pics of them; they really let their freak flags fly and I LOVE that!

:-D I'll be back to this truck for sure.