{"id":22519,"date":"2024-03-23T13:36:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T20:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=22519"},"modified":"2024-03-26T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T17:38:13","slug":"argentina-at-rwc-the-empanadas-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/argentina-at-rwc-the-empanadas-king\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe King of Empanadas,\u201d a little piece of Argentina in Redwood City"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22545\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22545 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/empanadas-king.png\" alt=\"The Empanadas King\" width=\"1280\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/empanadas-king.png 1280w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/empanadas-king-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/empanadas-king-1024x686.png 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/empanadas-king-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/empanadas-king-18x12.png 18w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/empanadas-king-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/empanadas-king-696x466.png 696w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/empanadas-king-1068x715.png 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Empanadas King, a restaurant and bar where many Argentines from the city, Latin Americans, Americans and people from other countries come on the weekend, in search of empanadas, but also Argentine barbecue, mate and facturas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22519-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Empanada-King.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Empanada-King.mp3\">https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Empanada-King.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Ra\u00fal Ayrala.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first his name was El Empanadero, but later he was crowned The King of Empanadas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theempanadasking.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Empanadas King<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julio Kluss was born in Buenos Aires and emigrated to the United States twenty years ago. Today he has a factory making empanadas from Argentina and other countries, here in Redwood City, on Spring Street, among workshops and industries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the pandemic, he set up a restaurant and bar in the same place, where many Argentines from the city, Latin Americans, Americans and people from other countries come on the weekend, looking for empanadas, but also for Argentine barbecue, mate and facturas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bills are sweet Argentine breads or pastries, ideal for breakfast or snack.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The place is decorated with posters of Argentina, soccer and basketball jerseys, icons of Rioplatense graphic comics, and a large television for the games of the national team and River Plate, Julio&#039;s favorite team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does an immigrant - especially an Argentine immigrant - have to learn from the idiosyncrasy of this country? Julio admits that he has a lot to learn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt was hard work because everything I have today, my factory, everything started from scratch, that is, peso by peso with a lot of sacrifice, but over time I began to understand and adapt, and I really educated myself on what the USA is, on how to respect a country, because it\u2019s like you come to live in my house and tomorrow you want to paint my house a different color and play your music, but it\u2019s my house, so it\u2019s our mistake not to adapt. I\u2019m not telling you to lose your habit of drinking mate,\u201d said Kluss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Argentine-born player, whose surname is Polish but whose roots are Uruguayan and German, said that at 54 years old, he has no regrets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am 54 years old, I grew up late, but I don\u2019t regret it. Despite everything, I feel very happy, an immigrant, and having arrived at a place and being well and learning to respect and being able to grow and achieve it and try to stay there, I think that is the most important part.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To meet the King, taste some Argentine, Chilean or Bolivian empanadas, or some Argentine-style meats and spend a day of nostalgia and camaraderie, Julio Kluss \u201cThe Empanada King\u201d is located at 2992 King Street in Redwood City, Monday through Friday for lunch or Saturdays and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/proud-to-be-mexican\/\">Daniel, his international food and the pride of being Mexican<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Por Ra\u00fal Ayrala. Primero su nombre era El Empanadero, pero despu\u00e9s se coron\u00f3 como El Rey de las Empanadas, The Empanadas King.\u00a0 Julio Kluss naci\u00f3 en Buenos Aires, y hace veinte a\u00f1os que emigr\u00f3 a Estados Unidos. Hoy tiene una f\u00e1brica de empanadas argentinas y de otros pa\u00edses, aqu\u00ed en Redwood City, en la [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover","9":"category-food"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22544,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22519\/revisions\/22544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}