Foodtruck Heaven

After the holidays and some issues that took much more time and attention than I wanted, I'm back and, like the old saying says, "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach", what led me post for my first post of 2012 was food.
I planned a social event in February where I was supposed to meet members of a meetup group I organize at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Mr. LA's second home for more than 3--- years.  Much to my most pleasant surprise, the entire other side of the museum was covered with food trucks offering the world in culinary offerings.  You want Mexican food, you got it there; Need to get your Berliner curry wurst fix fixed fast; or you have a hankering for an organic, handmade ice cream sandwich on gourmet dark chocolate chip cookies, enter Foodtruck Heaven, on Wilshire Blvd. between Spaulding and Genessee Avenues.  They're in front of the L. A. Fitness on the side opposite LACMA.

How L. A. to eat your gourmet foodtruck meal and work it off in the same location!  How also L. A. it is to eat Korean tacos, something you can get at the Galbi food truck in Foodtruck Heaven!  For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about or have heard of one but have not yet ventured to try one, a Korean taco is a Southern California invention.  Someone thought that serving galbi, Korean short ribs, on a Mexican tortilla, stuffed with the usual taco toppings, was in for a treat.  You are!  Korean tacos are as L. A. as the palm tree or Friday night bike riders and girls with barely enough skirt and stiletto heels at the Hollywood nightclubs.  A food revolution was born!!!

Suddenly, Twitter became a reservation book as the Korean taco truck published its latest locations all over Los Angeles.  Hundreds weekly flocked to have this latest craving, opening the door (pun not so intended) to trucks featuring every kind of food imaginable. 

There is more than one "foodtruck heaven".  The one on Breed Street in Boyle Heights will have 20 different trucks, each selling a particular type of Mexican sandwich or food.  They park at night in a parking lot off of Breed and Cesar Chavez Ave.   Where are the best tacos in Los Angeles?  At the Ay, Que Tacos Leonor food truck on 3rd and Indiana Streets in East L. A.  I defy anyone to find a better taco anywhere.  You've been to Japan and you are craving the massive (as big as a frying pan) pancake known as a "onokomiyaki"?  Besides going to a restaurant in Gardena, the only other place to get these succulent, meaty, vegetabley, lightly breaded square of food heaven will be courtesy of Glowfish, a food truck that parks on Friday and Saturday nights in front of the Spaceland Nightclub on Silver Lake Blvd.

But the Foodtruck Heaven I'm talking about here offers trucks that serve sandwiches from all of the Latin American countries, Korean tacos, Indonesian food, Berlin currywurst, Mexican food,  French crepes, and of course, burgers and hot dogs (we are in America, after all!).  All this and ice cream sandwiches made from organic, artisanal gelato and organic cookies, too!

So, support your local foodtruck heaven.  You'll be glad you did!