Las Vegas 4th of July Block Party
Category: Las Vegas
Las Vegas: Hodgepodge (Cleveland), Devilicious (San Diego), Roxys Grilled Cheese (Boston)
While at the Lime Truck location, we found out there were other trucks near El Cortez in downtown Las Vegas (Fremont Street). We hopped across town and found 5 trucks, Vegas’ Sloppijo’s and Lulu’s, Roxy Grilled Cheese from Boston, Hodgepodgetruck from Cleveland, and Deviliciousfood from San Diego.
We had until 7: 30 pm to eat before the TV show closed the trucks. We were also full from the Lime Truck, so we picked food from Hodgepodgetruck. Martin ordered the Hodge Podge Dawg and I ordered the Chefs Steak.
While waiting for the food, I went to say hello to the girls from Devilicious. They were amazed I drove from the OC for food.
While eating, we observed Devilicious & Hodgepodgetruck talk “game” strategy. We wanted to try Roxys but were too full, and hope maybe tomorrow we can catch them.
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| The day crowd had gone home… and this was the crowd at 6:30 pm (1 hour til cut off time) |
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| Chef Chris from Hodge Podge & the Deviliciousfood girls discussing strategy |
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| The Great Food Truck Race supplied the car for each team |
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| Hodge Podge Truck from Cleveland, OH |
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| Chef Chris |
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| The Chef Steak, a filet with mac n cheese & spinach |
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| The Hodge Podge Dawg |
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| Roxy’s Grilled Cheese from Boston, MA |
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Great Food Truck Race: The Lime Truck teams up with Slidertruck in Vegas
I was at a kiddie birthday party when I got a DM tweet asking if I’d drive to Vegas to support the OC trucks participating in the next Great Food Truck Race (a reality tv show on the Food Network). Hmmm, why not?!
We left The OC at 12: 30, called Bally’s Hotel for a room (perks of being a Total Rewards player) and arrived at Vegas at 4: 30. We found the Lime Truck at 5:30 pm via a tweet from The Slider Truck, and also found other faithful OC foodies at the gathering.
Martin & I ordered the Arrogant Mussels, the Crab & Scallops Ceviche, the Jidori Chickenconfit taco, and a Limeaid from The Lime Truck.
While eating, foodiePaul showed off his beautiful Caprese Salad plate, and I took the picture.
The food gathering was hosted by Vegas truck: the Slider Truck, and we supported them by ordering the Ya Ya (greek) slider and the Pulled Pork slider.
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| Driving to Vegas from the OC: 4 hours Getting an upgraded room for free for being a loyal gambler… priceless! |
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| Foodies being filmed by the Food Network |
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| Even Man’s best friend wore his finest boots |
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| The Lime Truck from the OC |
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| Sweeet truck guys! |
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| The Lime Truck’s signature LimeAids |
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| Jidori Chicken Confit taco from The Lime Truck |
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| Maryland Blue Crab & Scallop Ceviche |
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| Classic Caprese Salad |
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| Arrogant Mussels |
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| The YaYa (Greek) slider & the Pulled Pork slider from the Slider Truck |
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| Martin deciding what slider to order |
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| the Slider Truck |
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Las Vegas: Cheesesteaktruck / ItalianIceTruck
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| Cheesesteak Truck / Italian Ice Truck |
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| Cheese steak without onions wit Wiz |
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| Banana Strawberry Italian Ice |
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| Chocolate Italian Ice |
After leaving Sloppijo’s, we headed toward the Premium Outlet and stopped at Cheesesteak Truck, who is also The Italian Ice Truck.
Yes, you can get a genuine Philly sandwich and Italian ice (shipped from Philly!) from one truck, at one stop.
Karen and I split a Philly cheesesteak wit out onions wit cheesewiz… Just like we did in Philadelphia.
For dessert, Karen had the Strawberry-Banana italian ice, and I ordered Chocolate.
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Las Vegas: SloppiJos
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| Sloppi Jo’s |
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| Fried Mac & Cheese w/ Pork |
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| Chicken Taco |
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| Tres Leches cupcake |
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| Cookie w/ a brownie inside |
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| Chocolate cupcake sprinkled with chili powder |
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| The Sloppy Jos |
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| Pork Taco |
What luck that we were staying at The Rio, and SloppiJo’s was going to be parked behind the Palms, located across the street for lunch.
We tried their newest creation, fried Mac & Cheese with pork. Karen and I also shared the Chicken tacos made with diced green chilies, cheese & cabbage.
For dessert I got the Tres Leches (3 milk) cupcake, and Karen got the Chocolate chip cookie with a brownie in the middle. They also had a chocolate cupcake with chili powder on top (which we passed on).
Another customer had the Pork taco, made with guacamole, pickled onions, & the Sloppi jo, which is slow roasted pork with red chili sauce topped with a fried egg and picked onion.
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Las Vegas: Tastybunz
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| Tasty Bunz |
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| Happy Endings, a dessert combo |
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| A tasty bunz |
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| Tater tots, Lumpia (eggroll) and the Mccheesy Tasty Bunz |
After visiting SnowONOshaveice and Hanshiktaco, we decided to head back toward the Strip to try Tastybunz.
Tastybunz are soft buns filled with meat. We were actually full from the first three trucks, so we sampled a few items. Karen ordered the “Happy Ending” dessert sampler, which are pot stickers filled with white chocolate, peanut crisp, and chocolate banana.
I ordered the Mccheesy, a mushroom bun filled with truffle Mac & Cheese, an order of “Mom’s Lumpia”, and Truffle Tots.
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Las Vegas: Snow ONO Shave Ice & Hanshiktaco
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| Melona, Horchata, Lychee topped with azuki beans |
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| Banana Strawberry Shave Ice |
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| SnOwONO shave Ice |
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| Pork taco |
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| Crazy’s Sweet Dough |
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| Hanskitaco |
After chasing down Islandbreeze, our next stop was a half hour’s drive across town at Lee’s Discount Liquor at 7411 Lake Mead Boulevard.
SnowONOshave ice and HANSHIKTACO were there.
Karen got her usual shave ice flavors (Banana & Strawberry) and I tried the Horchata, Lychee, & Melona with Azuki beans. Both shave ices were snow capped.
At Hanshiktaco, we shared the Pork taco and the Crazy’s Sweet Dough.
It’s only 4:00, and we’re stuffed, but our quest to find GFTS is not over…YET!!
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Las Vegas: Island breeze
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| Island Fusion Wrap with Ahi Poke Tuna |
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| Teriyaki Chicken bento box |
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| Spam Breakfast Plate |
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| Island Breeze parked on the UNLV campus |
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My very first Vegas food truck was Islandbreeze. Thus, it is only natural that in my quest in chasing a Vegas truck, I make a stop here.
Finding Islandbreeze, however, was a challenge. On their web page they said between Leid Library & CBC on the UNLV campus. After asking several students, driving all along the perimeter of the campus, we finally spotted the truck. It really was ON the campus, next to the Koch Auditorium. We were lucky and found meter parking behind the library and some copy center.
I ordered my favorite, the Island Fusion Wrap with Ahi Poke Tuna, and the Teri Chicken Bento box (which had rice, noodles, spam & chicken). Karen picked up the Spam Breakfast plate (2 scoops of rice, 3 slice of grilled spam & egg).
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