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Dos Chinos is unveiling their newly wrapped truck!!
Join them, along with Dogzilla and Bakery Truck for this momentous occassion. Poor Dos Chinos have been rolling the OC with the naked truck. Now, they’re in the big league and totally legit! Way to go Hop & Joey! Saturday, February 5 · 11:00am – 4:00pm |
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| Bad Influence Tattoo Parking Lot
9475 Heil Avenue | Fountain Valley, CA 92708-2258
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| Tri Tip chili |
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| The Alpha Red beer The photo came out blurry… I’m not drunk |
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| Potato soup with cheese, bacon, sour cream |
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| Comfort food: Good old grilled cheese sandwich |
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| Cheesy toast (came with the chili and soup) |
It’s hard to grab dinner before a Ducks game, and the food at Honda Center is expensive and gross. Tonight Spudrunners was going to be at Noblealeworks, which is just around the corner from “the Pond”.
Martin had the tri tip chili, which he paired with The Alpha Red beer, the perfect combo for a cold, windy night.
Karen and I had the Potato soup topped with bacon, cheese & sour cream, and we split a good ol grilled cheese sandwich. The soup & chili came with cheese toast as well.
Apologies for the poor photo quality. My Droid is on the fritz, and my replacement phone is stuck in Texas (due to the cold weather). I hope that you will still find the food appetizing.
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| French onion + kobe beef soup from The Lime Truck |
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| Gnocchi from The Lime Truck |
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| Lavash from the Lime Truck |
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| Dogzilla |
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| Udon from Rolling Sushi Van |
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| Sweet potato cupcake from Oh For Sweets Sake |
You know, I wish I could eat from every food truck, every day. Of course, if I did, I’d be big as a house.
Today I picked up the French Onion Kobe beef soup and an order of gnocchi. Someone next to me ordered their Lavash and a Dogzilla.
Karen ordered Udon from Rollingsushivan, and we split a Sweet potato & bacon cupcake from Oh For Sweet Sakes before getting dessert from Tropshaveice (not pictured).
New line up not posted yet. Check back soon
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| Details + Map -> http://schmap.it/i6ffh1 |
On the way home from Santa Anita, we made a pit stop to Noble Ale Works who was debuting their new beer, Nobility.
There were wall to wall people, so Martin got dessert at Crepes Bonaparte. (Notice the new way they are packaging the Crepes?)
Many bloggers and media are calling this event a “disaster” because of the long lines, and trucks running out of food around 1:30 pm. I can only agree if Santa Anita purposely oversold on tickets just to make a profit, and with no regard for the foodies. To defend Santa Anita, they were not expecting this kind of success. Plus, this was their first event. Do not discount an event because they were “too successful for their own good”.
Had this been empty and lacking customers, would the same bloggers call this a “success”?? No, I’m guessing the label would have been “pathetic”.
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| First Annual Food Truck Festival |
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| Lobsta Truck |
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| Two trucks had a line at 11:00 am. The Grilled Cheese Truck and this one… the Lobsta Truck |
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| The Lobsta Roll |
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| Japanese TV media was there covering the festival |
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| Chunk n Chip with the Grandstand in the background before the crowd
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| The Spam and the Tapa handroll from Tapaboy |
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| Cupcake shots from Sweets Truck |
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| Dante’s Fried Chicken w/ cabbage salad and coconut biscuit |
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| The lines for all the trucks were super long by noon The festival was a success but should have limited tickets |
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| The view of the Festival from the Grandstand (on the other side of the racetrack) |
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| Checking out the horses before the race |
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| The horses going to the Starting Gate |
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| The Starting Gate |
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| We left at 2:30,and the lines for the trucks were still long |
The Santa anita food festival was a hit! Lucky for me (a veteran truck chaser) I knew I had to arrive early to get the goodies. The Lobster truck was my “must have” target, and even though I arrived at 11 am, there was a line (along with Grilled cheese truck).
While I waited in line, Martin went to new truck Naanstop for the Naanwich Tandoori Chicken, two handrolls from the Tapaboy truck, and Cupcake shots from the Sweets Truck.
After I got my Lobster, I ran to Dante’s Fried chicken just as he was just opening up, and ordered his chicken with cabbage & almond salad. While waiting for my order, a lady next to me showed me her Samosa from Dosatruck.
After I picked up my chicken, I looked up to find that every truck had outrageously long lines. We found a table, ate our food, and then ended up going to the Grand Stand, bet on some ponies before calling it a day.
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Join us on Saturday, January 29 from 11:00am to 4:30pm on the Santa Anita Park Infield for our offical launch party!!
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| Dessert Shot from Morsels |
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| Smoked turkey over creamed corn from Shortstop |
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| Bacon wrapped dates from Barcelona on the Go |
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| Chili Fries from Spudrunners |
It’s Thursday! Chuckwagon at Carter Lanes! Sometimes ordering off the menu does not provide the best food photo. Take my Smoked turkey over creamed corn from Shortstop Bbq. Its very tasty but visually bland.
I added Bacon wrapped dates from Barcelona onthego and a Banana cream dessert shot from Morsels.
My friend Allen went to Spudrunners and got the Chili fries. I have taken photos from this truck of other people’s food… I really need to personally try the spuds!
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