Local food truck brings a taste of Venezuela to Tulsa

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TULSA, Okla. — BANNER: LOCAL FOOD TRUCK SHARES A TASTE OF VENEZUELA

As Green Country celebrates Hispanic Heritage month, 1 section nutrient motortruck proprietor is utilizing her Venezuelan practice to found caller roots present successful Tulsa.

Taco Loco is simply a nutrient motortruck that sits conscionable extracurricular Pearl Beach Brew Pub. It's known for its Venezuelan Arepas.
They're an emblematic cornmeal cake, usually stuffed with steak, chicken, and different fillings.

“The arepas are perfectly phenomenal,” Stanley Brown said. “They’re fresh, they’re made close connected site, they are just...the spirit is precise unique.”

The crockery is simply a Venezuelan staple, but proprietor Ana Rivas is making it 1 of Tulsa's too.

“When you sensation their food, it’s similar they enactment a small emotion successful there. It’s ace good!” Victoria Jackson said.

Rivas and her 19-year-old son, Gustavo Gonzalez, launched the concern past October.
It was a clip erstwhile restaurants were struggling and galore shutting down, but this parent and lad saw an accidental and seized it.

“I opened it successful the mediate of the pandemic. I was not considered the astir omniscient decision, but the look to occurrence is having the willpower to marque it happen, having the disposition, and staying positive,” Rivas said.

Their travel to reaching that imagination has been 1 of perseverance. Rivas is simply a Stillwater native, astatine conscionable six months aged her parents took her to Venezuela, wherever she spent astir of her life. Six years ago, she near everything down to travel to America, including her to kids.

“It was beauteous hard for me, I conscionable saw her erstwhile successful 3 years...it was conscionable hard,” Gonzalez said.

She moved to Tulsa successful hunt of a amended beingness for her and her family.

After surviving distant from them for truthful long, they are yet reunited aft she filed a petition to bring some of her kids and parent to America.

Now, her lad is her concern partner. He helps her tally this nutrient truck. Gonzalez said the roadworthy to assistance his parent scope her imagination had unsmooth patches, but helium present sees the sacrifice is paying off.

“All those 3 years were worthy it," helium said. "Now, I’m blessed now.”

Together, this parent and lad person recovered a look for success. They're utilizing it to stock a sensation of Venezuela with Tulsa.

“I deliberation Tulsa successful general, particularly the downtown country is precise affluent successful diverseness and civilization successful wide and this surely brings a batch of facet to that .It shows that determination are each types of antithetic flavors and cultures and you know...things to observe and I cognize arsenic a patron," Brown said. "I emotion having it here.”

Rivas said her adjacent extremity is to unfastened different nutrient motortruck due to the fact that she wants the assemblage to cognize her accepted arepas.

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