The fourth Santa Anita Food Truck Festival arrived on the first weekend of October. From the website, there were up to 60 trucks listed. Of the 60 trucks, I had already tried 35 of them. Actually... two of the trucks are old re-branded Calbi trucks (Short Rib Tacos and New York Galbi) so in reality, 58 trucks.
Re: Almoosal
I went in to this fourth festival with the intention of only eating at new trucks. The first truck on the alphabetical list was Almoosal. They serve Filipino fusion food. At the festival they served pork tocino, beef tapa and hawaiin pork sausage longazaino. I probably mispelled all of them but they don’t have a menu for me to reference! I had the sausage sandwich. It came with sweet potato fries and a garlic sauce. The sausage sandwich was pretty good. The Hawaiian sweet bread, arugula, tomato, onions and a garlic aioli sauce went pretty well with the sausage.
The sweet potato fries were very good with the garlic sauce. The fries were fried just right. The sweetness of the fries went well with the garlic sauce. The sauce reminds me of the Athena Grill garlic sauce.
Re: Asian Cravings
Next on the list was this truck. This is an asian fusion truck. I saw that they had pork tacos so I ordered those. These pork tacos by themselves are pretty simple. They put shredded pulled pork with pickled cabbage. To make the tacos “asian fusion,” they added a nice ginger sauce to the top. The tacos themselves are pretty standard. The only thing they didn’t do was to add shredded cheese which is good since not everything has to have cheese on it (a la Calbi and Kogi truck).
The pork was juicy but it lacked “asian” flavor. The cabbages added a nice sourness and crunch to the taco. The ginger sauce was very good. It brought the ingredients together. However, I really think that they could have done more to meld the ingredients together. Individually, each of the ingredients were bland. The pork was not seasoned. The cabbage tasted like they were pickled but again nothing stood out from the pickling process. Only the ginger sauce tasted good and that taste brought out most of the flavor from the pork and cabbage.
They have other items which would be interesting to try. Hopefully their other tacos are better.
Re: VChos
Pupusas for those that might not know are very similar to the Tex-Mex quesadillas. The main difference that I see is that quesadillas sandwich the ingredients (cheese, meat, salsa) while the pupusas are slightly thicker (like a pita bread) and have the ingredients already mixed (or stuffed?) into the bread. I had the pork, bean and cheese pupusa.
The container contained some spicy sauce which by itself would have been great with the pupusa. But it also had cabbage mixed in which really ruined it for me. I took two bites and tossed it. The pupusa came out hot and freshly made. It was a bit hard trying to cut it into manageable bite sized pieces with one hand but I managed.
I tasted the beans and the cheese... but I didn’t really get a lot of pork. The pork flavor was there which leads me to believe there was pork in the mix. Maybe it was mixed into the bean and cheese? I don’t know. I think it was good and for the price is pretty reasonable for the amount of food you get. This is one truck that’s worth going back to. Apparently they have a pretty good chicken pastelito -- stuffed chicken pockets.
Re: Almoosal
I went in to this fourth festival with the intention of only eating at new trucks. The first truck on the alphabetical list was Almoosal. They serve Filipino fusion food. At the festival they served pork tocino, beef tapa and hawaiin pork sausage longazaino. I probably mispelled all of them but they don’t have a menu for me to reference! I had the sausage sandwich. It came with sweet potato fries and a garlic sauce. The sausage sandwich was pretty good. The Hawaiian sweet bread, arugula, tomato, onions and a garlic aioli sauce went pretty well with the sausage.
The sweet potato fries were very good with the garlic sauce. The fries were fried just right. The sweetness of the fries went well with the garlic sauce. The sauce reminds me of the Athena Grill garlic sauce.
Re: Asian Cravings
Next on the list was this truck. This is an asian fusion truck. I saw that they had pork tacos so I ordered those. These pork tacos by themselves are pretty simple. They put shredded pulled pork with pickled cabbage. To make the tacos “asian fusion,” they added a nice ginger sauce to the top. The tacos themselves are pretty standard. The only thing they didn’t do was to add shredded cheese which is good since not everything has to have cheese on it (a la Calbi and Kogi truck).
The pork was juicy but it lacked “asian” flavor. The cabbages added a nice sourness and crunch to the taco. The ginger sauce was very good. It brought the ingredients together. However, I really think that they could have done more to meld the ingredients together. Individually, each of the ingredients were bland. The pork was not seasoned. The cabbage tasted like they were pickled but again nothing stood out from the pickling process. Only the ginger sauce tasted good and that taste brought out most of the flavor from the pork and cabbage.
They have other items which would be interesting to try. Hopefully their other tacos are better.
Re: VChos
Pupusas for those that might not know are very similar to the Tex-Mex quesadillas. The main difference that I see is that quesadillas sandwich the ingredients (cheese, meat, salsa) while the pupusas are slightly thicker (like a pita bread) and have the ingredients already mixed (or stuffed?) into the bread. I had the pork, bean and cheese pupusa.
The container contained some spicy sauce which by itself would have been great with the pupusa. But it also had cabbage mixed in which really ruined it for me. I took two bites and tossed it. The pupusa came out hot and freshly made. It was a bit hard trying to cut it into manageable bite sized pieces with one hand but I managed.
I tasted the beans and the cheese... but I didn’t really get a lot of pork. The pork flavor was there which leads me to believe there was pork in the mix. Maybe it was mixed into the bean and cheese? I don’t know. I think it was good and for the price is pretty reasonable for the amount of food you get. This is one truck that’s worth going back to. Apparently they have a pretty good chicken pastelito -- stuffed chicken pockets.
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