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In Los Angeles, it's the attack of the Twittering food trucks!

November 13, 2009 |  6:16 pm
Kogi
The Kogi BBQ truck started the Twitterin' truck trend. Credit: joshuaheller / flickr.
Take a walk down Main Street during one of downtown L.A.'s Art Walk nights (the second Thursday of every month), and you will see an element that does not at first blend in with all the paintings, sculptures, high heels and hipsters.

Lining the curbs from 4th Street on down are a caravan of parked food trucks, part of L.A.'s growing army of Twitterized mobile eateries, originated by the now-famous Kogi Korean BBQ truck.

But now the roving bands have expanded to such variously named rolling restaurants as Nom Nom Truck, Let's Be Frank, and the upcoming FrySmith, a "truck with fries that eat as a meal." 

There are sushi trucks, ice cream and shave ice trucks, Indian food trucks, Philadelphia cheese steak trucks (couldn't find the Twitter address but I saw it with my own eyes), coffee and sweets trucks, and even a food truck for vegans!

No doubt I have omitted a few trucks from this list, but the L.A. Metblog listed more of them a few months ago, and there's even a page that tracks tweetin' trucks.

-- David Sarno


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The Philly steak truck is South Philly Experience @SouthPhillyExp http://twitter.com/SouthPhillyExp

I've just had www.boolbbq.com BOOL Truck and OMG! This is the best Brazilian-Korean BBQ I've ever had!!! Especially their pastelle! It makes my taste-buds go to heaven... because it's so gooD!



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