This food truck opened recently in the Plaza De Los Food Trucks behind the Gosling Express. I stopped in for a big late lunch the other day. I got the three-meat plate (beef, chicken, and ribs) with sides of Spam musubi (Spam sushi) and pasta salad, with a Hawaiian Sun orange juice to wash it down.
The food is good and made for a satisfying meal. The meats were pretty tender and had good flavor. It didn't blow me away, for several reasons:There's not much color on the plate. The meat is all kind of dark brown (the chicken is lighter) served with white rice and some soy sauce. The pasta salad is a pale yellow. So visually kind of ordinary.
Hawaiian BBQ is generally more of a sweet glaze, but this interpretation is teriyaki. That's pretty much where all the flavor comes from. I couldn't really even taste the Spam in the Spam musubi, and that's quite a trick. My favorite meat on the plate was the chicken, which is nice and tender with classic teriyaki flavor. The other meats were good but not perfect--the beef was just a little mealy, and the ribs had a bit of gristle.
It's an OK lunch, but too expensive for an OK meal. These are nice people and I wish them well, but they need to up their game.
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