Gourmet Food Trucks (9)

I’ve been raving about how good No Reservations Catering Truck is for the past few couple posts.  Their garlic fries is definitely the best that I’ve eaten.  The aoili sauce is a great complement to the fries. Here is a picture of these fries.

I hunted them down last week.  Their special was a Szechuan Chicken Taco.  It was great.  The chicken in the taco was very juicy and had great flavoring.  The onions and cilantro added a more distinctive Asian flavor. Doesn’t this look good?

LA Street Food Festival

Held at the Rose Bowl this past weekend, quite a few food trucks were on hand to showcase their respective cuisines.  The event had 58 food trucks of which I had only tried 10 of them.  And even of these 10 trucks, I’ve only consistently gone back to only 2 trucks -- Grilled Cheese Truck and FrySmith.  These two were a “must eat” in my opinion for Evelyn and Emi.

I tried to take as many pictures as possible, but I usually end up eating all of it before I remembered.  Overall, because of the lines, I wished we could have had more opportunities to eat some of the other ones.  

We ended up tasting:

- Dogzilla (japanese inspired hot dogs).

- Mariscos (Fish tacos)

- Ta Bom (Brazilian)

- Tamales from somewhere.

- Cupcakes a Go Go (cupcakes)

- FrySmith (Rajas and Kimchi Pork fries)

- Grilled Cheese Truck (Cheesy macaroni with pulled pork)

- BBQ ribs from somewhere.

- Crepe’n Around. (Sweet Crepes)

- Fresh Fries (Sweet Potato fries with peanut butter and nutella)

- Kabob N’ Roll (Chicken Kabob).

- Cool Haus (Ice Cream Sandwiches).

The public album can be found here.

This was such a cool event. I hope more people I know will go for the next event.

The move

Before and After~

Gourmet Food Trucks (8)

Re: Grilled Cheese Truck
They were close enough to work to stop by for dinner since I had already planned on working late.  I had tried them previously before and found them to be exceptionally good.  Grilled cheese comfort food always has a huge following and the multiple times I’ve gone back there was *always* a long line.  They’re good... but not worth 30+ min of waiting.

This time around, 5 minute wait got me this.

I enjoyed their cheesy mac and rib -- again!  I actually was looking for a special but didn’t see it in time until after I had already ordered.  Next time I’ll know where to look!  I also ordered the tater tots.  The last time I had the tots, they were covered in grease.  This time I think they were done perfectly.  The tots were crispy and hot.  I also had their Chipotle dipping sauce last time and made sure to get double order of the sauce.  The spiciness from the sauce complemented the gooeyness of the grilled cheese.

So good~!

Nom nom nom~

Gourmet Food Trucks (7)

Re: No Reservation Truck

Such an awesome truck.  They sell “gourmet” wraps.  The first time I tried this truck was when I was sick.  I had finished eating ramen and was just looking at the different truck and their respective menus.  The garlic fries sounds like it was good.  It was voted the “best fries” by some magazine.  Hearing their front man speak about the “gourmet food without the gourmet prices and wait” also piqued my interest.  So despite being sick, I ordered the fries.

And guess what?  The garlic fries are amazingly good.  Their caper anchovy aioli sauce is one the best tasting condiments I’ve ever hard.  It is as good as Athena Grill’s special eggplant and garlic dipping sauce. I even got a second cup of sauce too.  Their front man was great.  

I started chatting with the front man while I’m coughing and eating these amazing garlic fries.  His name is Sheldon.  He and his partners already have a catering business and they just wanted to try their hand at the food truck business.  He’s tried other food trucks (Kogi, Calbi, Grilled Cheese, etc) and some of the trucks impressed him while others not so much.  He shares similar sentiment as I do about the long wait at Kogi i.e.  the food although good, is not worth waiting over 30 minutes for.  He let me taste one of the meats that is used in his wraps.  Wow, it was good.  In the end, after finishing the fries, I asked to take a menu back.  Hopefully the company will use them for the lunches.

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I had this again.  They had a special “Smoked and Curried Chicken taco” to try which I did.  This is probably one of the best tacos I’ve had so far.  The chicken was well spiced.  It wasn’t overly spicy like some of the Korean tacos but it also wasn’t dry like some of the other Korean tacos.  It provided a nice crunch and it was just juicy enough that it didn’t leave a huge mess.  Oh and the garlic fries tasted even better when I wasn’t coughing.  The aioli sauce is great.


Re: Papas Tapas
There is no official homepage.  But this truck offers one of my favorite types of food -- Spanish Tapas.  For those that don’t know, I’ve been a tapas fan ever since a friend introduced me to Thirsty Bear Brewing on 3rd and Howard in San Francisco.  Although the selection they had wasn’t much, I tried their croquetas and tortilla espanola.  The croquetas were good hot.  It looks like a tater tot at first but when you bite into it, the creaminess oozes out and you taste the bacon and cheese filling.  The tortilla espanola isn’t the traditional flat cheesy mexican tortillas that you find.  These are potato and eggs type of tortillas.  You could say they look similar to a baked quiche.  The spicy sauce that came with it complemented the tortilla really well.

I would definitely try this particular truck again.  I hope I can one day find and try the other tapas truck.  Unfortunately it seem to be rolling around in the OC area only