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How One Korean Taco Truck Launched an $800 Million Industry

Smartphones in hand, the mostly hipster crowd snap photos of their tacos and send tweets. A murmur rumbles through the crowd that the truck has run out of kimchi, the spicy fermented cabbage that ... read more

What To Eat This Weekend: Villa’s Tacos Opens in DTLA, Kimchi Burritos in Lomita, and A Fruit Beer for Farm Workers in Pico Rivera

Burrito options include spicy chorizo chilaquiles, another with spicy andouille, a “taco truck” variety stuffed with Korean al pastor and chopped kimchi, and the “CFO” with pork chile verde. read more

Roy Choi

Korean-American chef Roy Choi is known for sparking the chef-driven food truck trend with his Korean taco truck, Kogi BBQ, in Los Angeles. Choi produced the movie Chef and TV shows Broken Bread ... read more

This Taco Truck’s Plancha-Crisped Carnitas Are Legendary in the Mission

At the corner of 23rd Street and Treat Avenue, a standard-issue white taco truck sits in a small lot in front of a local park in San Francisco’s Mission District. No music or flashing neon signs ... read more

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The Family Guy Experience is swinging into Houston! Katy man claims he was hired to shoot at taco truck, prosecutors say Hawaiian plant-based donut goes from island food truck to the mainland ... read more

RESTAURANT TRANSITIONS: Korean-fried bb.q Chicken outlet opens at West Markham and Bowman

The first Arkansas outlet of South Korea-based bb.q Chicken opened quietly last week at 101 S. Bowman Road at West Markham Street in Little Ro ck, in the space adjoining Big Bad Breakfast that ... read more

This Taco Truck Kills Fascists

New Orleans-based performance activist Jose Torres-Tama has a dream: to create a revolutionary Taco Truck Theatre with a simple message: "No guacamole for immigrant haters". Inspired by Woody ... read more

These Sacramento Tacos Are So Good, They Inspired an NBA Player's New Shoes

The Bistek taco comes with carne asada, orange sauce and sliced avocado on a fried crisp tortilla. (Alan Chazaro) At a taco truck called Banzito’s (formerly Bandito’s), I encountered my first ... read more

We Are What We Eat: Asian Americans and Food

It helped that we came of age concurrent with an era defined by the Food Network, Anthony Bourdain books, restaurant blog/sites, fusion taco trucks, et. al. Food culture has transformed into so ... read more

The 21 Best Restaurants in Seattle

The Hawaiian-Korean fusion concept started with a food truck and expanded with the support ... beloved grab-and-go classics like kalbi beef tacos, kimchi quesadillas and spam on kimchi fried ... read more