Hard-working Honolulu residents have been powered by plate lunches from lunchwagons for decades. Not to mention shrimp trucks, which are a local icon. But surely, food trucks have been a part of life in neighborhoods everywhere. But in the last couple of years, following in the footsteps of overpriced fancy coffee and topping-obsessed frozen yogurt, there had been a "revival" of roving food vendors on the Mainland:
Not surprisingly, Honolulu is following suit, seeing an explosion in fancy new food trucks that are appearing alongside (and sometimes to the chagrin of) the trusty plain unassuming plate lunch wagon. We recently had a thread on historic and treasured lunchwagons, sparked by this larger and more recent phenomenon, but I wanted to focus specifically on the newcomers in town.
You can find a guide to some of these new food trucks at StreetGrindz, and Nonstop Honolulu has been keeping tabs on new local food trucks since the beginning. Finally, as a personal plug, my cohost Burt and I devoted a show to "Lunchwagon 2.0" on Hawaii Public Radio last week, focusing on how social media tools are helping to drive business to these mobile eateries. (The MP3 will be available for download for the next couple of weeks.) Our guests were Poni from StreetGrindz and Wedge Lee of the OnoToGo food truck.
We'll always love the trusty, rusty "local" lunchwagon with its familiar plate lunches, but these new food trucks -- often featuring shiny new custom trucks with colorful paint jobs -- are trying different things, from classic Japanese to "fusion" tacos to trendy cupcakes (coming soon!). Any early favorites?
Not surprisingly, Honolulu is following suit, seeing an explosion in fancy new food trucks that are appearing alongside (and sometimes to the chagrin of) the trusty plain unassuming plate lunch wagon. We recently had a thread on historic and treasured lunchwagons, sparked by this larger and more recent phenomenon, but I wanted to focus specifically on the newcomers in town.
You can find a guide to some of these new food trucks at StreetGrindz, and Nonstop Honolulu has been keeping tabs on new local food trucks since the beginning. Finally, as a personal plug, my cohost Burt and I devoted a show to "Lunchwagon 2.0" on Hawaii Public Radio last week, focusing on how social media tools are helping to drive business to these mobile eateries. (The MP3 will be available for download for the next couple of weeks.) Our guests were Poni from StreetGrindz and Wedge Lee of the OnoToGo food truck.
We'll always love the trusty, rusty "local" lunchwagon with its familiar plate lunches, but these new food trucks -- often featuring shiny new custom trucks with colorful paint jobs -- are trying different things, from classic Japanese to "fusion" tacos to trendy cupcakes (coming soon!). Any early favorites?
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