Chef on Wheels Catering

Now to start off, there are two different trucks with this name rolling around. The one in the picture is not the one that I’m talking about. The good one has a menu with smaller letters and more things on it. It is usually operated by an older spanish women, and the cash guy it a younger guy, a really nice, cool dude.
Anyways, you have been forewarned, this review is for a specific truck, so if you end up eating at the one that has the menu with larger letters don’t think they’re the same!
So as this became our resident food truck outside our school at the Donald Douglas Loop on 31^st and Ocean Park Blvd, It became a must try for me when i first arrived here in LA. It was my first Food Truck experience and it has kept me coming back for more at least once a week. 3 Specific things from this truck are what really have kept me coming back and that’s the Breakfast Sandwich, the Breakfast Burrito, and the Fries. The Sandwich and Burrito are practically the same, both housing a magnitude of Egg, Cheese, Bacon, Sausage, and Hash-​browns, the Sandwich just containing them between two pieces of French Toast, and the Burrito in an over-​sized Flour Tortilla. Both phenomenally big and delicious. The Fries are an Item to get on their own as well. Seasoned Orange fries deep-​fried to a crisp and tasty as ever. You can hear it in the halls all the time «ooh you got fries! let me get one of those!» My usual combo of the Breakfast Burrito, Fries and a can of Soda come out to a measly $ 5.50 which is every bit worth it!
If your in the area and looking for some good breakfast food at any time of the day, check these guys out. I am definitely a fan!

seriously, i guess people aren’t getting the right dish here or something, more stars are deserved, people!
i absolutely loooooved my spicy shrimp with rice… the menu has a warning that the shrimp is spicy, but i must have a very tolerant palate for spicy foods, so it was pretty mild, but very delicious… a good mix of spicy and sweet and the shrimp is GINORMOUS… more like prawns… i love how the rice is sprinkled with garlic, some kind of special house sauce and a little bit of butter too…
fyi they keep the shell/​legs/​tail on the shrimp… but you know what, i like to eat it all anyway so i didn’t mind one bit… because the shrimp is fried, the whole thing is edible… i already want more!
definitely going back to try the other things on the menu…
minus one star for their soggy sweet potato fries…

I’m sad to see that this place has such a low Unilocal rating because I am STILL thinking about my delicious lunch from them!
I ordered the House Special Shrimp scampi – which tastes like a mix of scampi and honey walnut shrimp (without the walnuts, obvy) and is served with rice with garlic on top. Every bite was full of creamy, garlic-​y, shrimpy goodness, and the rice had just enough flavor.
I’m absolutely headed back and hope that people aren’t dissuaded from giving them a try because of their less than stellar reviews (I think maybe their pork just isn’t a winner…)

I ordered the
1. Pulled Pork Sandwich with coleslaw (I love coleslaw, but I actually didn’t realize that the sandwich would have coleslaw on it!), the pork was smoky, but not too porky if that makes sense while the bread was pretty good. The coleslaw was excellent, with a light dressing that balanced the sweet and the sour.
2. Beef Brisket Sandwich with sweet potato fries. Bleh. The brisket was cut thin but covered in a thick sweet sauce. The fries were good though.
3. Special Shrimp Scampi — wow, I have no idea how you make a scampi on taco truck, but they did it. This dish is the winner and the one I’ll start with if I ever see that truck again.

Technically, I would like this review to be 3.5 stars… here’s why:
I’m deducting a full star because they ran out of sweet potato fries! :(I will say the regular fries were tasty, fresh, and crispy… just not what I wanted when I was looking at the menu. I know there’s limited space on a food truck, but they hadn’t been there that long before we arrived! How did you run out?
As for the «island flair» portion of the description… well, I ordered one of the specials they had listed — Loco Moco. Any 808 native knows what this is… and how to make it! Tip #1 — wrong gravy. This looked like turkey gravy to me… not what loco moco is usually made of. The gravy should have more substance to it. Other than that, it’s pretty hard to screw up a loco moco… and it was aiiiiight. Nothing to write home about (no pun intended), but not horrible either.
3.5 shakas. Not sure if I’ll give it another go yet… maybe I just have to start my own Hawaiian plate lunch truck. Who’s in? :D

After the Indian Jones truck flaked on showing up to their posted twitter locations, the name of the game became, «Save Our Lunch Hour.»
We were just going to drive back the office when we spied a truck that had a sign stating something to the effect of, «BBQ food with island flare.» Curiousness took hold and we gave it a go. Since it was a BBQ truck, I ordered a pulled pork sandwich and a Korean taco.
The weight of what was given to me was promising, a good pound to dollar ratio, but once I bit into the pulled pork sandwich I was let down.
The pork was luke warm at best and on the dry side. It wasn’t like the coleslaw had more than 2 minutes to cool of the pork, it just wasn’t nearly hot enough. Flavor was okay, considering there was no sauce and only the coleslaw to kick it up, and the bread was okay as well. I would have rather had hot steamy pork, slathered in BBQ sauce and served on white bread, but I guess that’s impossible in California.
The Korean taco was actually pretty good. For $ 2 it had a lot of meat and a lot of spice and flavor. I wish I had just gotten two of those instead of the sandwich.
The wave of food trucks is rising in sea of food, I wonder how long and how high the crest will get before it crashes down on all of us.