Posted on 04 September 2010. Tags: Ark Chinese Restaurant, Delilah Snell, Eat Real Festival, garnish, Gordon Xiao, Guy Fieri, Jack Birdsall, kimchi, kimchi jjigae, Korean bbq, Korean taco trucks, Korean tacos, lai min, melon carving, MoGo BBQ, Namu, noodle pulling, Project Small, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco dining, Seoul on Wheels, watermelon
Chef Gordon Xiao of Ark Chinese Restaurant in Alameda making pulled noodles. (Photo by Jeff Quackenbush)
Among the more than 80 caterers, mobile and brick-and-mortar restaurants and food-related vendors at the second annual Eat Real Festival in the San Francisco Bay area were two Korean “taco trucks,” a nouveau hanshik restaurant, a ramen restaurant serving kimchi and a food-preservation specialist teaching how to pickle the popular version of it.
Did I mention the live demonstration of making Chinese pulled noodles (lai min)?
Intensely craving some Korean yumminess, I attended the festival, held Aug. 27 to 29 at Jack London Square in Oakland, Calif., to snack on selections from Santa Clara-based MoGo BBQ and Seoul on Wheels of Emeryville. Reviews of those rolling restaurants will be posted in coming days.
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Posted on 05 July 2010. Tags: Atlanta, Kogi, Korean bbq, Korean food, Korean taco trucks, Korean tacos, Yumbii
Korean taco trucks are no longer limited to America’s West Coast cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland. Now Atlanta, the largest U.S. Southeast city, has Yumbii. It’s one of the latest such roving restaurants to follow in the wake of intense popularity for Kogi, which has more than 67,000 listed followers on Twitter.
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