KOGI FOOD TRUCK - LA : EATING OUT

I mentioned in my last Los Angeles Eating Out Post, that I would be doing a Series on our culinary adventures in LA. Here comes the second installment of the series. From the swankiest restaurant in Beverly Hills(NOBU, LOS ANGELES), let me take you to a Food Experience, which  has tourists and locals flocking like crazy. It has the capacity to shut down social media with their mentions. Yes, you guessed it right. KOGI FOOD TRUCK .

Me and my Husband are foodies, thahts a known fact. The blog probably just has 1/100th of our culinary experiences documented in it, but I am trying to keep up. In our quest for trying out avenues of food which we havent, we kept hearing  the name of Kogi Barbecue, in many a television programs and social media mentions. We had missed it during our last trip to Los Angeles, so this time around we knew we had to squeeze it in.

For those of you , not familiar with the phenomenon called Kogi Barbecue, let me chat up a bit. Kogi Food Truck is a fleet of five food trucks, which ply the roads of Los Angeles. Social Media is how the word gets out, where the trucks would be parked that evening. Its no ordinary food truck, whipping up your regular food truck favorites. The brainchild of Chef Roy Choi, who created a Fusion of Korean Barbecue and Mexican food. Its almost received an iconic status, where the LA food scene is concerned.

Our flight from Kansas City to Los Angeles reached on time, and by the time we had picked up our luggage and taken our rental car, we were super hungry. Not to mention it was a bit late than our usual weekday dinner time. We had looked up the locations of the Kogi Trucks for the Night, on Twitter and decided on which one to head to. The problem was that the trucks only stayed at a location for around an hour every night. So if you didn't make it within a certain time frame, then you were clearly not in luck.

But we did make it in good time. It was time to EAT !

Our daughter had woken up from her nap by then , we were ready to tuck in. We might have ordered a bit more for 2 1/2 people. Why do we always over order when we see an interesting menu.

We started off with SHORT RIB TACOS. Marinated and succulent Korean Barbecue Short Rib, served in griddled corn toritllas , caramelized Korean Barbecue, chopped up Romaine, onion lime relish and salsa roja. Every bite was such an explosion of flavors, I kid you not. Its not wonder how fast it vanished from our paper tray.

Next in line, were the SWEET CHILI CHICKEN QUESADILLAS. I know, I should have gone for the KIMCHI QUESSADILLAS, but we had to look in to the taste buds of our soon to be 3 year old daughter. What a lovely contrast of tastes the slices of quessadillas presented. And that sauce with which it was slathered, should be sold by the bottle by Chef Roy Choi, and people would be queueing up for that too. I am not a person who likes their protein sweet. But it was a great balance of introducing just a ask of sweet into the savory.

 Of the three things we ordered that night, my least favorite had to be the SHORT RIB BURRITO. One reason could be that by this time, we were already stuffed with the food and the accompanying pop that we had ordered.It was interesting to have short ribs, breakfast eggs  in a burrito, but somehow the size was a bit too big after all that we had stuffed in. Somehow the short ribs paired better in the Tacos, if you take my word.

I dont know when I am going back to Los Angeles next, but whenever I go, I shall  be at the  Kogi Food Truck, stuffing my face with Short Rib Tacos, till I am at that all familiar food coma stage.

Bon Appetit !