Rice Box Truck

I don't know if you know, but right before summer started, Museum Fine Arts had invited local food trucks to do a Lunch and Look.  It's quite brilliant, you get some good food, enjoy it at the garden, and you get free entry to the exhibit.  How I understand the system is that you pick up a Loyalty card + the receipt from the food truck of that day (parked right outside the Sculpture Garden) and you can get a free entry.

I was there for lunch and a movie, yes MFA shows alot of films, not necessary the artsy subtitled type, but revivals too.  Anyway, that day, I met John, the genius behind the truck.  We chatted a bit, like how did he come to the idea of a Chinese food truck.  Turns out he's in love with the culture, knows how to speak Mandarin, and try to get good food in a very non-orange-Chinese-sauce kinda way.  So, he came up with the food truck.

In Chinese, Rice Box is like a Bento Box, where you get a decent amount of rice with a main dish (aka protein) and an eggroll to boot.  And John was just saying how back in the day, the hay day of Downtown Chinatown, where he can get a decent meal at a cheap price, it was college students heaven.  That still holds true at some Chinese grocery stores.

What John meant by the 'orange-Chinese-sauce' is what you see at alot of cheapy Chinese eatery that serves American-Chinese food as opposed to original Chinese food.  Now granted, the bases of his menu is very American-Chinese based, but he made sure the ingredients are fresh and all are the classics most of us know and love as our comfort food.  

What I love about their stuff is that they put a generous portion of rice and you can ask for fried rice at the bottom, and they definitely filled it up with meat and topped it off with an eggroll.  The fried rice, what I opted for, for a $1 add-on.  Is cooked in pork fat, so talk about nice and yummy, there's nothing like it at any local Chinese places.  Ok, that was exaggerated, but you don't find that everywhere, let's say.  And the chicken is not dried and still juicy and meaty by the time I bit into them.  The eggroll, wasn't as good compared to the chicken and the rice.  But I would definitely go back for more and for dumplings.

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Rice Box Truck

http://riceboxtruck.com/