Flying Pig, take 2
Ahn-joo
Manilla/Sky Gourmet
Vizzi Truck
Gourmet Genie
The Place LA
Phamish, take 2
Bool BBQ, take 2
Fish Happens
Kogi, take 4
Fishlips/Slice
Krazy BBQ/Canters
South Philly/FlyingPig
SMC Celebrate America
Komodo plus six
ESPN World Cup
Dumpling Station
Vesuvio
Louks-to-Go
Calbi & Border Grill
Yum Yum & Slice
Frysmith
Flying Pig
LA Smokehouse
India Jones
Phamish, take 1
Trucks galore, take 3
Kogi, take 3
Fishlips Sushi, take 2
Bool BBQ & Frysmith
Fishlips Sushi
Trucks galore, take 2
@ T-lofts
Trucks galore, take 1
Yum Yum Bowls
Gastrobus/Bool
Kogi, take 2
Kogi, take 1
Happy Cup Ramen and Ludo Truck
The Happy Cup Ramen truck has been patrolling the streets for some time, but for whatever reason, I'd never been able to find it.
Finally decided to fix that tonight. The trusty Truxmap said they'd be on Sawtelle tonight... so off I went.
Turns out lots of trunks don't report their locations accurately enough (if at all!) so that Truxmap doesn't pick them up. According to Truxmap, two trucks were on Sawtelle. General practice says 5 or 6 are there, but I don't know which, so I don't generally go...
To my suprise, 7 trucks are there, including some new(ish) ones. Happy Cup Ramen and a fried chicken truck called Ludo Truck become my targets. The special tonkatsu ramen at Happy Cup is very strong and very tasty. It lacks the refinement of Santouka, it's not anywhere close to the delicate explosion of flavors that is Shin Sen Gumi Hakata Ramen, and even Daikoukoya is clearly better-- but yet, Happy Cup isn't bad at all, and it's clearly better than many of the less-well-spoken-of ramen places I've tried.
Ludo Truck's fried chicken goes through three days of seasoning, or so they say. It's damned tasty, but at six bucks for two medium-sized balls of thigh meat and a tiny cup of cole slaw, man, it's expensive.
Calbi BBQ was there, as was a new truck called No Tomatoes that looked interesting, unfortunately I forget who else was present.