Street Food – Real Street Food!

First off, we’re going to have trouble with this post unless we all agree from the start that hot dogs, regardless of how wacky the toppings are the lamest street food known to man. Could anything show less imagination, regardless of how much wasabi mayo you put on it? In that vein, I’ve recently been patronizing the only street food operator in the Lower Mainland that I know of.  Tenku Bukudanyaki has been recently setting up in the worst possible location known to mankind, an abandoned parking lot with all the charm of a set from The Wire in the heart of we can’t decide to be zoned retail or industrial Richmond. At the corner of Elmbridge and Gilbert is this trailer selling giant tatoyaki balls flavoured with nontraditional curry or pizza sauces among other unexpected surprises are on offer for a five. Totally delicious, and if you don’t need a new fawcet at the Rona across the street, they drag the trailer to night markets and street fairs around the city all summer.  My greatest hope, and this is totally futile as it’s an actual good idea, way too good for the idiot’s that run things, but I’d love to see that whole empty parkade fill with Portland-like food trailers, it’s a short walk from the Oval, give visitors this winter something great during the Olympics, rather than whatever dire corporate crap is on offer at the concessions inside.

~KT