Mister Softee

For social distance birthday party, I ordered an ice cream truck.

You don't see these very often anymore, but it's Mister Softee soft serve.

I got Chocolate soft serve with chocolate dip.  It has a nice chocolate shell on the outside.  But under this humidity and heat, it immediately melted.  Had to eat super quick because they give you a very generous serving.

If you guarantee their minimum, they will come to your neighborhood.  Or else, you can catch them in Sierra Plantation neighborhoods.

Mister Softee Ice Cream Truck

832-763-8331

https://mistersoftee.com/our-locations/

Flip n' Patties

So, there's a new food court opened in Downtown Houston called Understory.

Literally watch them put all these places together. 

Needless to say, I was thrilled to see Flip N' Patties got a spot.  You don't get alot of Filipino eateries in Houston.  So to have one so easily accessible is awesome!

Makes me excited to see that they went from a food truck to a brick and mortar and now expanding to downtown.

Right now, like many new eateries, they are cashless.  And since that place is really loud, they let you know when your food is ready.  Frankly, I was thrilled to see unicorns prepared my order.

So, what did I get.  I got the Spamsilot, which is slices of space cooked Filipino style, over a bed of jasmine rice covered with fukikake flakes (which has seaweed, sesame and other seasonings), with a fried egg over it. 

Honestly, that is alot of food.  But it was so delicious that I inhaled the entire box.  It is decently priced for that much of food.  The line at their stall is often out to the seating area.  So, I'm thrilled they are popular amongst the office crowd.  Definitely will come back for the Flippin Burger next time!

Flip n' Patties

in Understory

800 Capitol St

Houston, TX 77002

http://www.flipnpatties.com

Moooseum

When there's a food truck, I'm naturally curious...

This is not your regular ice cream trucks.  They have all sorts of fancy sundaes, floats, milkshake.  Ice Cream of sorts of course.

We got a milkshake.  It's the good o' fashion thick you have to suck your face in type milkshake.  That said, it melts nicely and every sip is fully of real ice cream.  That said, it cost $6, which is on the higher side in terms of price.  But I do want to give small businesses a chance.

If you want to find the truck, they are pretty up-to-date on their site: http://www.moooseum.com/calendar

Moooseum Ice Cream Truck

http://www.moooseum.com

Melange Creperie

It's been such a long time since I had me some yummy Melange Crepe.

Caught them Eastside Farmers Market on Saturday.  To make sure they are there, you need to follow them on Twitter.  Or if you Tweet at them, they will respond relatively quickly.

Yep, got my Patty Special, which is sweet crepe of Nutella with banana and strawberry.  They did have some interesting savory crepes, but since we were late, some of the ingredients were out.  As usual, they have a great following.  The line is always 5 deep with multiple order per person.  That's just telling you how great they are.  

If you don't want to go out in the open, they are always at the Conservatory (downtown).

Melange Creperie

Eastside Farmers Market

3000 Richmond Ave

Houston, TX 

8am - Noon

http://www.houstoncrepes.com/#crepes

https://twitter.com/MelangeCreperie

Ripe Food truck

Was at Eastside Farmers Market milling around.

Saw somebody eating avocado toast, thought sure, I'll try that.

Left is agua fresca with strawberry and mint, and the right is lavender lemonade.  To me, the strawberry and mint was very much like the fruit infused water as opposed to the agua fresca from street stands that I was thinking.  In that case, I like the lavender lemonade a lot, it's very refreshing and you can smell the lavender as you walk up to the truck.

Ok, what I saw the other people had and drawn me to them.  Huge slices of avocado toasts.  I am not an avocado fan typically, so I was very surprised that I liked this so much.  The bread texture was nice, the tomato was not flimsy, the avocado was fresh, and with just enough amount of seasoning, made it all come together.  I enjoyed it quite a bit.  I was talking to a couple while sharing a table and they love it so much that they got an extra order to take home.  That's a true testament of doing food right.

Their theme of their truck is healthy, plant based (aka vegetarian), and most importantly locally grown.  I place a lot of value of what's grown here versus import, because the soil is tailored to the people that live here which also share the same air.  So, if you have allergies, if you eat something planted here or came from here (i.e. honey from local bees), it helps prevent or lessen your condition, just by that.  So, I appreciate that.  And you do see some transactions done amongst vendors here.  For instance, they use lavender from the lavender farm booth, and veggie from the stall a few booths down.  Talk about bringing a community together.

Ripe Cuisine

713-876-4768

http://ripe-cuisine.com/

The Dough Cone

So while running errand saw a new ice cream truck...

What is a dough Cone?  Well, the side said something about Nutella, you already got me there.

The owner is super nice and was telling me all about the cone.  Though it is doughnut type base (think Turkish doughnut) shaped like cone, it is baked not fried.  And the outside has cinnamon sugar to help give it a crunch.  The cone is not thick like a donut, just thicker than a normal waffle cone you're accustomed to.

Their ice cream, unlike the soft serve that is made from powder, theirs is really made from milk, vanilla bean, and sugar.  When you order a cone, he will first put an organic strawberry at the bottom of the cone to serve as a stopper.  Then, fill the cone with Nutella inside, yum!  Then pour on the ice cream.  It is really pure ice cream, you do taste the difference from say froyo.  Then, you get to put unlimited amount of topping and they are all from Whole Foods.  They have sprinkles (that, I'm not sure WFM sells), sliced almond, nuts, dried fruit.

So, I got sliced almond on top, it's less 'messy' as compare to the other options.  And he's nice enough to give me a color changing spoon too 'help'.  

So how does it taste?  Well, the ice cream is definitely more premium than say what you get from Baskin Robbins.  It's not quite gourmet like Cloud10, but the ingredients are as simple as it gets.  The owner was saying that his family runs an organic food business, so to him pure ingredients are very important.  He does get his stuff from Whole Foods, and he does read the labels to make sure they are good before putting it on the truck.  

Price point of $6.99 a cone seems a tad high, but seeing that he uses premium on the ingredients you'd understand the price point.  Kind of make me feel better paying that price.  If we were to go to Picugo  or Amorino for that size it would've been about the same price-wise.  I like to support local and small businesses, so definitely will come back to support.

Interesting tidbit, this truck was formerly Monster PBJ.  Yes kids, sadly Monster PBJ is off the market, as they focus on working on some retail aspect of their business, but have no fear, truck is going to to go use.

The Dough Cone

parked at Rice Village on Times & Kelvin (in front of formerly JoAnn's Clothing)

https://www.facebook.com/thedoughcone/

832-910-9643

Flip n' Patties

I went to an art show, and saw Flip N' Patties. 

Been meaning to give them a try, but not easy catching them.  So might as well take advantage that I can.

I had the BBQ Skewers, and it came with this cute little container with rice, veggie, and eggroll.  They give you this cute little spoon and fork too.  It's spoon one end and fork the other.  The meat was well marinated and delicious.  They weren't kidding when they say it's heaven in your mouth.  It was well executed and well made, and the sauce was delightful.  Not heavy, not salty, strike a right balance there.  So yummy!

Flip n' Patties

Usually at Marquis on Tues/Friday

http://www.flipnpatties.com/

Casian King

What I love about local festival is that they always get some fun food truck and you can make your own smorgasbord of food line up.  Super fun!

This is the Korean BBQ Poboy... That's an interesting concept.  They used a giant Texas Toast, cut it open, and filled it with Korean marinated BBQ meat, there's some slaw at the bottom.  And they drizzled their own secret mixture of mayo and scallions.  It's pretty awesome, and TONS of food.  To say it was filling was an understatement. I just have never seen them before, and was super glad to try them out.  Next time, I'm going to try Kimchi Fries with Casian Lobster... sounded good!

Casian King

https://www.facebook.com/casiankingfoodtruck/

Wokker Texas Ranger

My friend Julia was raving about Wokker TX Ranger, it was perfect when I saw that they were at the nearby festival.

I overheard a guy having to explain to his girlfriend how they got that name.  And she has never heard of Chuck Norris, so then he had to go into explaining who that is and why is that name funny and the reference.  It was interesting to overhear that.

Here's their menu...

 Here's the Tamarind Ribs, which it tasted like they have cooked it for a long period of time, or sous vide.  Bottom line, the sauce is awesome, the marinate is great, and the meat is not dry but easily chew off.  I'm talking finger licking good.

 Then we have here, brisket egg rolls.  At first, they told me, they don't have it yet, but when my order was ready, they magically whipped up the egg rolls.  I'll take it.  It was a hit with my mom too.  The meat is nicely snugged inside the roll.

 Brisket loaded curly fries.  It's so bad but sooooo good.  The meats were large chunks of briskets marinated like the tamarind ribs, and they drizzle with the cheese and sesame mayo.  So good... let me tell you, it was very decadent, and let me tell you, I did not eat the rest of the day.

You have to catch them when they're around town.  They are well worth it.  I will say, don't eat before catching them, otherwise, you can't take advantage of the menu!

Woke Texas Ranger

http://www.wokkertxranger.com

Doughmaker

I heard my friend Julia had visited the Doughmaker Doughnuts, and being a sweets person, I can't resist.

I caught up with them at Midtown Mobile Food Park.  It's right down the street from HCC, by an overpass, so it's not exactly a romantic place to hang with all the noise.  But, the food is what I'm there for.

Sorry, this is upside down.  But there's 2 lemon blueberry, which I highly recommend.  There's a Caramel Apple, and the other is Pistachio.  The Caramel Apple is not as good as I had hoped.  But surprisingly the Blueberry Lemon was awesome.  Don't worry, I didn't eat all of these.  That said, both my mom and I tested and still highly recommend the Blueberry Lemon... so much so that we went back got another one for a friend because we felt that they MUST try it.

Doughmaker Doughnuts

follow them on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/DoughmakerHTX

Scratch food truck

So, I went to the Nutcracker Market this weekend, and was pleasantly surprised to see food trucks there.

I've never heard of Scratch before, and the back of the truck said Lobster, so I naturally gravitate towards it.

Simple straight forward menu, but no Lobster Roll, hmm...

I settled for a Cuban Pork Sandwich.  The pork does taste good, but not enough for me to come back for it.

They are often parked outside of the the Texans games, where the vendor pays to get in.  THey can sell whatever food they want, just had to sell their water  

 Scatched

no website yet

Coat & Thai

One of my favorite things to do in Austin is to go down to SOCO and to the food truck park and see what yummy-ness I can find.

This time I decided to try Coat & Thai.

For appetizer, I got an order of spring roll.  It is accompanied by sweet sauce.

Got a beef pad thai, it was actually really good.

Couple problems I had at the food truck park, if the food truck is good, naturally you'll have to wait in line.  That, I'm actually ok with.  But, that also meats that seating in front would be limited.  I'm not sure what's the protocol if you sit at the seating that were in front of the other trucks, but that didn't seem right to me.  Another thing is bees.  Yes, bees.  I can deal with flies, but bees, no thank you.  I'm just trying to avoid getting stung, I also have to fight with them over my own food?  Oh geez.  They are quite vicious too, they have no fear that you may try to trap them into the box, or trap them and drown them in the sauce they were attracted to.  I just decided that no egg rolls is worth it.... so I barely had couple of bites and it all went to the bees.  So I was forced to throw it all out.  Hope it was as good as the bees liked them.

Coat & Thai

1600 S. Congress

Austin, TX 

512-970-2154

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Coat-Thai/102909466453460

Food Truck Fest - OhMyGogi

At the 'haute mess' fest, one of the trucks that I was very much looking forward to wasOh My Gogi. It's a fun play on word between Oh My Gosh with Bulgogi. If you don't know what Bulgogi means, that is a style of Korean cooking, which includes marinated meat cooking over an open grill. You often find this at Korean restaurant.

What makes Oh My Gogi different, was that they billed themselves as a Korean BBQ & Mexican fusion. That idea just sounded intriguging and delicious... possibilities just seems endless. I would say that I was slightly disappointed, not at their food but they weren't ready when the gate open that day. Hungry attendees, myself included, was there bright and early on an empty stomach to make room for this highly anticipated truck, and they were waiting on supplies and didn't open almost 45 mins later.

That said, I will say that it was worth the wait. They fused the Mexican food favorites, tacos, quesadillas with the Korean marinate, sauce, and kimchi. It was delectable. While the spice may not be to some who are not used to it, for a whim like me who can't take much spice, it was not hard to eat.

I know they also have some sort of specialty taco, unfortunately they were out of it that weekend, but don't let that discourage you, go try it yourself!

OhMyGogi
www.ohmygogi.com