Tom's Foodie Blog

UPDATE – This event was a complete disaster! No one should ever pay for tickets to an event operated like this. All promises made by the organizer flopped. The Gourmet Food Trucks Lost Money and the Visitors felt ripped off.  I recently had the opportunity to interview the founder and organizer of the “OC Foodie Fest”, [...]

**Note: I had to mask the word Food P*rn do to overzlealous Websense monitors- sorry for the redaction** I have seen a truck floating around the local Food Truck lots with the  name, “The OC Food Truck.”   All I gotta say is that you better have some big fried balls and even bigger burgers to claim you are representing [...]

I was in a lunch meeting with a Malaysian co-worker who was eating left overs from her O.G. Malaysian Mother’s family dinner. It smelled fantastic and I wanted some. She informed me that the really good food comes from the   “Street Hawkers Carts” in the city-state of Singapore (on the southern tip of Malaysia). For the [...]

Would you eat oysters from a Food Truck? This is the same decision I faced when presented the opportunity to eat live shell fish at a food truck lot.  But let me back up for a minute, I was on my way home and had a serious hankering for Gourmet Food Truck Fare. To my luck, it was Wednesday [...]

  Back Side of the Tasting Spoon Truck I was driving back from another food truck lot and noticed a new bightly colored truck there called “Chef Joe Youkhan’s Tasting Spoon”.  I actually pulled over,  just to check it out.The truck was very fancy, with a colorful mural painted on the truck. The truck also featured a very [...]