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| - Complete amazingness. And this is coming from a vegetarian girl that couldn't eat at 95% of the trucks.
After fighting for a parking spot at South Point, we followed the crowd across the street to the place where dreams are made of. It was a complete mad house to say the least. The husband and I came up with a game plan to hit up as many trucks as we could.
Nom Nom was of course a fan favorite, considering it was on Food Network and all, and it had an enormous line. The husband kindly offered to wait in line there while I went off to explore what other deliciousnesses could go in my belly.
The goal: get to every truck that had a veg option, starting with the one with the shortest line. That ended up being Calbi. I ordered the Tofu Burrito which I got in no time flat and promptly walked it over to my husband in line to share. The burrito was so good- tofu cooked in a spicy chipotle sauce with some cabbage and other veggies. Not sure what all was in the burrito since I was too busy scarfing it down. Extra points to Calbi for having really friendly people working there.
Then I searched hopelessly for a while. What's a veg girl gotta do to get in on this truck action? Finally, I saw some veggie tacos were available at Love Grub and got in line. I wasn't terribly interested but I was afraid this might be the last place that had a veg option so I made the stop. Well, after 5 minutes of not seeing a single person place an order, I decided to get out of line and move on.
Next up, The Chairmen truck. Although the line was a little long it went quickly and I got me some awesome Crispy Tofu Bao. Back over to the hubby in line to share. These were really good and the tofu had great texture.
Just as we finished our bao, our order from Nom Nom was finally ready! We started off with a tofu taco that I really liked. I have to say I was a little disappointed with the banh mi though. It was good, especially the bread, but the filling-to-bread ratio was off and halfway through I bit into some superhot pepper or jalapeno or something. I couldn't taste anything for a couple minutes afterwards because of the deep burn.
We had patience (and cash) for one last stop, so of course we needed to get some dessert at Cool Haus. It took an awfully long time to get through this line even though there weren't that many people. I got the red velvet ice cream (awesome) with double chocolate chip cookies (also awesome) and salted caramel hot chocolate. While the ice cream sandwich was good, I think they just gave me a boring old regular hot chocolate- there was zero salt and zero caramel flavor boo.
We tried to make a quick stop at the cupcake place but they had already sold out even though it was an hour before the event was over. Maybe next time.
Lots of fun, lots of yummy food- I can't wait for the next one!
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