WOW Truck Wows Food TV
If you were in the vicinity of San Jose’s Bernal Park last night, you might have noticed a line — a long line — of hungry folks.
That’s because the WOW Truck was parked there at E. Hedding St. at N. 7th St. for business of a rather exciting kind.
The food truck, which serves up Filipino fare, was being filmed by a crew from the Cooking Channel’s “Eat St.,” which is here in the Bay Area to put togeter a future episode that also will star a couple more kitchens on wheels, including San Francisco’s Le Truc.
WOW Truck, co-owner Tim Luym, passed out free pineapple fritters (turon) to folks who braved the long wait in line to purchase his popular silogs ($7) — plates of garlic fried rice heaped with your choice of meat (everything from corned beef to pork sausage to SPAM), as well as pickled green papaya salad and an over-easy, cage-free egg.
Patrons also were chowing down on the truck’s tacos ($4) and burritos ($7.50) garnished with calamansi pico de gallo. And nobody could resist the signature adobo wings (three for $5).
Periodically, the camera crew would come by to zoom in on folks taking bites of their food, especially if they happened to be young, attractive women, if you know what I mean. Hey, it’s TV, right?
Luym, also chef of the Attic restaurant in San Mateo, was thrilled by the TV crew’s visit, as well as the turnout of the crowd.
Tracy Lee, who founded DishCrawl, which organizes social dining meet-ups in cities around the Bay Area and Canada, and yours truly, were invited to come down to the event to be interviewed on camera about the food.
Tune in this fall, when this episode will air. And wish me luck that I don’t end up on the cutting room floor.
More: My Visit to the Attic
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Thursday, 28. July 2011 5:31
All I can say is WOW!
Thursday, 28. July 2011 5:32
Oh, I wish we had food trucks here!
Cheers,
Rosa
Thursday, 28. July 2011 7:17
I have been trying a lot of new food trucks in SF recently, love them!
Thursday, 28. July 2011 8:13
So jealous, I wish there were food trucks in my area! Those crispy adobo wings sound amazing!
Thursday, 28. July 2011 8:30
I love Eat St, thank you for sharing, how fun!
Thursday, 28. July 2011 9:44
I hope to see you on TV soon!
Thursday, 28. July 2011 10:13
Great to see food trucks outside of San Francisco, although too bad for me that I can’t get down there to try it. Chef Luym is a good guy so nice to see him getting some attention.
Thursday, 28. July 2011 11:18
How fun is this! We have a good line up of food trucks at one of our larger farmer’s markets, and of course the OC fair
Thursday, 28. July 2011 12:51
I just had my first meal out of a truck yesterday – fun review!
Thursday, 28. July 2011 20:00
I really wish that food trucks caught on here! They always look like they serve really delicious and inexpensive food coupled with a dose of fun too
Friday, 29. July 2011 4:29
Double yum!
I feel deprived because our county does not allow food trucks.
Saturday, 15. October 2011 20:21
That was so much fun! It was great seeing you Carolyn!
Thursday, 19. January 2012 11:08
I was totally unfamiliar with the word “silog” on the young mans shirt and had to look it up on Wiki. I am now educated.
Thursday, 19. January 2012 14:31
FAL: It’s good stuff. You gotta try some!