Every month, Edwin Marrero takes a two-day road trip to New York and New Jersey, When he comes back to the little Virginia Beach market that he and his wife, Nery, share, he comes heavy laden with Latin American foods you can't find elsewhere in Hampton Roads. Among them: coffees roasted in Puerto Rico, Colombia and Brazil; six varieties of yerba mate tea; heavenly Peruvian aji amarillo chile sauce; dried beef from Brazil; spicy salsa ranchero from the Marreros' native Dominican Republic; and junk food from seemingly everywhere Spanish or Portuguese is spoken. According to Nery, the Thalia Villages store with an A-line roof has sold groceries of some sort since "the photos were black and white." But since 2012, the pair have been ebulliently welcoming food ambassadors to anyone who yearns for Latin American flavors. By the door, a man from the Dominican Republic raved about a roll of "milk fudge" he hadn't found since coming to Virginia — it's a bit like a wrist-thick marshmallow roll made with milk.