NYC Cravings- Taiwanese Food Truck

So last week, Brian Lim told me about the Taiwanese Truck that comes around on 23rd and Park Ave every Tuesday at 11:15 AM. (It's run by NYC Cravings, and goes around to midtown somewhere too. So last Tuesday, I decided to go try it.

So, I walk over and I see this huge yellow truck in the middle of the street and a lengthy line of (mostly Asian) people. The wait was pretty short, it moved pretty fast. On the menu there were 7 things. You can get either, pork-chop over rice, friend chicken over rice, dumplings (4 for $3!!! You know in Flushing we buy them for 25 cents EACH!? And they taste A HELLA good. Oh, and one time I went to Rickshaw on 23rd and 5th, and it was the most disgusting 4 dumplings I've ever eaten in my entire life, not to mention, I think I paid like $7 bucks for 4 of them. EW!), tea eggs ($1 EACH!) and some other random things. Of course, I knew, that in buying this, I would be disappointed. Nothing can beat the awesomeness of 66 in Flushing. For $5.95 you can get the most great tasting Taiwanese grub in the US- I mean, TRUTH- all authentic Taiwanese kids live up in Flushing- so they HAVE to have some of the good foods there!

Anyway, from the truck, I got the porkchop over rice. Okay, my first reaction when I opened my bag- it was huge. They give you a LOT for $7. A little too much, actually. There was 2 huge slabs of porkchop over what seemed like a bottomless pit of rice and sour cabbage. (mm, i love sour cabbage...) This might be a blunt statement, but it's probably better than any high end, asian cuisine restaurants found in manhattan. Sure it's super oily and gross, but that's what Chinese food is all about!

They have sriracha sauce, duck sauce, soy sauce and dumpling sauce!


Here is my pork chop over rice. To be honest it WAS a too oily and too salty for my taste. It felt like you needed to eat a lot of rice to balance out the intense saltiness of the pork. I mean, even the sour cabbage felt like the water to counter the saltiness... Anyway, to be honest, for this area, it's good. So if you guys are in the area, and have some time- and is seriously craving some taiwanese food... you should try it out!


Taste: 2/5
Atmosphere: N/A
Cost (w/o tax+tip): $7 for a plate, $4 for 3 dumplings, $1/teaegg