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Domo Lomo Arigato

March 1st, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Not the fanciest of trucks...

Although it seems like I’ve reviewed just about every truck on the streets of LA, there are still a few waiting for an unvegan visit.  Lomo Arigato is no longer one of these.  This truck dishes out Peruvian food and although they don’t fuse this with any sort of Japanese food, they still threw the word “arigato” into their name.  This confused me, but I couldn’t let the strange name distract me from food.  There were only three dishes in their menu and although they all looked pretty good, I decided to order their namesake, the Lomo Saltado.

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Borderline Okay at the Border Grill Truck

February 2nd, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Sweet design.

Finally, I feel like I’ve been to just about all of the food trucks in LA that I have any desire to visit.  Yes, I know I haven’t been to all of them, but I think I’ve been to enough to justify paying a visit to the Border Grill Truck, despite the fact that the Border Grill is already a restaurant I have been to.  I guess I just wanted to see how an upscale Mexican restaurant could translate into a truck.  People  seemed to be enjoying their food outside of the truck, so I went to see if I could partake in their enjoyment.

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Getting Fried at Asian Soul Kitchen

January 29th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

It's a sooouuuul truck.

Combining Asian Food and Soul Food is kind of an interesting concept, and in doing so the Asian Soul Kitchen truck was born in LA.  I decided to follow them on Twitter because their twitter name of “itsbentobaby” sounded pretty awesome to me.  I found them on Abbot Kinney and took a look at their menu.  Although some of their specific Asian foods like yakisoba looked good, I needed something with a lot more meat to it.  To get that fix, I turned to their Lollipop Chicken.

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Subpar-BQ at Barbie’s Q

January 25th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

The Q stands for quixotic.

So for my final truck on the Haiti Fundraiser day, I decided to visit an old truck that I still haven’t gotten the chance to try out.  This was Barbie’s Q, “A Rollin’ BBQ Joint.”  The idea of getting BBQ from a truck has always sounded kind of suspect, but my buddy told me it was pretty good, so I trusted him.  I also trusted the looks of the man taking orders outside the truck that looked like he had just walked out of a Willie Nelson concert or a shootout at the OK Corral.  Or both.

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Getting Balls with the Vesuvio Truck

January 25th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Oh this is a new one.

So first off, I had never even heard of a food truck called Vesuvio.  Aside from raising money, this Haiti fundraiser at T-Lofts was awesome for introducing me to some new trucks like this one.  I decided to try this place out first, since my buddy was grabbing some pizza from the Slice truck right next door.  The Vesuvio truck offered some Italian-style sandwiches, but I was looking for something less filling so I could eat from more trucks.  Luckily, they had a solution, called Arancini.

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A Biblical Valentine

Let's get biblical.

This year I got biblical for Valentine’s Day.  No, not like that you sicko.  Instead of having a boring, fancy meal with my girlfriend, we decided to get cooking.  And not just any kind of cooking, we decided to use Lobel’s Meat Bible, which was sent to me by Chronicle Books a few months ago for free.  I knew this book would be incredible just based on the cover, but the back cover really sealed the deal for me because it says, “Armed with Lobel’s Meat Bible, carnivores will find themselves with more delectable meaty choices than ever before.”  Mmmm meaty choices.

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