LA Street Food Fest: The Food

The food, finally, the food!

Hot Garlic Pizza from the Slice Truck - this was the first, and only, line we all stood in together. From here on out it was all splitting up...

A cool refresher from Del's to keep us from fainting in the heat... Lol

Honey-Feta Fries from a local Mediterranean truck

Vietnamese Iced Coffee from a local Vietnamese truck - the local trucks had shorter lines than the newer food trucks...

Grilled Steak Banh Mi from the local Vietnamese Truck

Spicy Pork Banh Mi from the local Vietnamese Truck

Cheesy Mac and Rib from The Grilled Cheese Truck - this girl behind me in line was delivered her melt by her sister who waited *2 hours* in The Grilled Cheese Truck line. I hope she enjoyed that sandwich!

BBQ Beef Slider from Uncla Lau's - this was my favorite thing I ate all day! I could eat, like, 5 of these...

Pulled Pork Slider from Uncle Lau's

Yummay!!

Taco assortment from Komodo

Taco assortment from Komodo

Crack Bar at The Sweets Truck - this was my 2nd favorite thing I ate all day! :)

Red Velvet Cake Sandwich at The Sweets Truck

Lemon Shot at The Sweets Truck

LA Street Food Fest: The Trucks

Wasn't able to take take piccies of them all, but there's a good amount to look through below!

I promise to post the food shots next ;)

Buttermilk Truck

Fresser's

Slice Truck

Del's

Flying Pig

Uncle Lau's

Tasty Meat

Frysmith

Sweets Truck

Komodo

LA Street Food Fest: The Line

Let's just say I'm considering myself very lucky to have attended the first ever LA Street Food Fest; basically a food-truck mixer of both "new school" gourmet food trucks and "old school" authentic LA street food. It was pretty much a sold out show in downtown Los Angeles, avid foodies queued up for hours just to enter the food fest... Only to queue up again for the actual food. People got creative and split up into different lines and only re-grouped once everyone came back with the goods. Let me assure you, excited epicures stood in line for hours just for little bites of the city's most popular trucks. Nevertheless, it was great to see the energy downtown for the food truck movement!

True story: I stood in line for a good hour at Flying Pig, finally placed my order... Then got told it would still be an hour plus 'til they'd call my number! We waited an hour (during which we stood in other lines), came back and our ticket number was still a lotta digits away. By this point, the venue was almost closing and we wanted avoid the hectic hustle and bustle exit traffic. The kind men at Flying Pig just gave me my $$ back. Note to self: Must just catch the Flying Pig on the streets of LA.

After that, our strategy ended up being simple and smart: Find the shortest line. It worked :)

**Thanks so much Fabi and Kat for swooping me up last minute! Xx