So the big rage lately is food trucks. Now, I didn't grow up in the USA so I'm not familiar with the lunch trucks that I understand go to schools and work places so people can buy cheap food. Cheap being the operative word. Often cockroach ridden (also known as the "roach coach") and followed by a sudden visit to the bathroom.... or so I've heard. I've encountered these lunch trucks on the freeway though. Mostly broken down, pissing off rush hour drivers by jamming the traffic. So my connotation to food trucks haven't been good.
This, however, was before I encountered the Kogi truck! It was at an event here in town where a local cupcakery (My Delight Cupcakes.... REAAALLY yummy by the way) had invited a couple of food trucks for their cupcake event, one of these trucks being Kogi. Well, my husband and I hadn't eaten lunch yet that day so we went for the kogi and after one bite, I was hooked and my impression of so-called lunch trucks have been reversed completely.
I'm currently on a diet, but today is our cheat day, so we were sitting around wondering what we should eat on our cheat day. I remembered the Kogi truck and looked up their website, where they have a schedule of their whereabouts for the week. The closest truck was going to be in Fullerton, and that's about a 30 minute drive for us, but nevertheless, we packed up the baby and headed out!
My trusty GPS (Magellan rules) navigated us to the shopping mall where the truck was supposed to be, and lo and behold, as soon as we approached the vicinity, we didn't have to do much but follow the smell of Kogi and we found a gigantic line of people waiting to buy food.
We were just in time actually, because only a few more people lined up behind us before the Kogi-crew placed a "the queue ends here" sign in somebody's hand. It would've sucked to drive all the way there and get no Kogi! Nevertheless.... there we were. Waiting. It took us almost an hour to get the food, but believe it or not, waiting in line for Kogi is a part of the whole experience.... Just like going to Pink's Hotdogs in Hollywood.... I mean, you're almost disappointed not to find a line around the block!! :-)
I had only tasted Kogi once before, so I wasn't sure what to order. We ended up getting and assortment of foods: Short rib burriton, spicy pork burrito, sweet enchilada chicken quesadilla and a "pacman burger". I was pretty much just ordering blindly, but I was confident that no matter what was in these dishes, it would be good.
We didn't want to just sit in our car and eat, so we found a park nearby where we unpacked our goodies and enjoyed :-) It turned out to be a very nice trip indeed, and my tummy is still nice and happy, my tongue is still watering.... This Kogi BBQ is amazing!
Kogi truck ... people can't wait to get their hands on some Kogi BBQ!
Here's the Pacman burger, oh man is it ever good! Basically cabbage, kimchi, bbq short rib & some
secret sauces of course... all stacked on a toasted burger bun. To die for!
Pacman burger and the Sweet Chili Chicken Quesadilla
Here's the insides of my Pacman burger. Just a big juicy mess of pure deliciousness!
Sweet chili chicken quesadilla! It was also tasty, not my favorite thought,
mostly due to the vinegary chili sauce that covers the quesadilla
(That would be that hotsauce with the rooster on it... dont remember the name lol).
Short rib burrito, my favorite! Sweet BBQ beef with cabbage, kimchi and egg, all wrapped up with some
secret sauces in a tasty tortilla.
People from out of state or out of country have asked me what Kogi is.... and I truly don't think explaining it is quite enough for people to get the picture. It's a Korean/Mexican fusion cuisine of sorts, but just saying it like that isn't enough to explain how tasty it is. Kogi simply must be tasted, that's the only way to know what it is.
IF you can find the truck in time ....... that is the challenge of Kogi! :)
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