The Governments lame brained idea to introduce ‘Food Trucks’ to Hong Kong, when we already have some of the most amazing street food in the world, wanders down an expensive cul de sac at PMQ over the next 5 days.
There are four concept ‘food trucks’ at PMQ, as well as host of other tasty food outlets – so if you fancy grabbing a bite take a wander down. But in what is an all too familiar tale in recent years the rules and regulations imposed by the FEHD are well meant but idiotic and impractical.
The food truck festival is supposed to showcase the food trucks concept (the ones on show are far too small to be practical, but that’s a different matter) yet the FEHD rules prohibit any cooking inside the trucks (apparently they even prohibit serving food to customers from inside the truck…). So all the ‘cooking’ (actually re-heating as FEHD rules don’t allow actual cooking) is done behind the trucks.
The four participating restaurants masquerading as food trucks are:
Homie Cookies: Joyce Cheng’s home-made soft cookies ($20 each) and ice-cream sandwiches ($60) – pretty good.
A La Maison XXL Seafood and Grill: paella, lobster roll ($90), 12inch hotdog – friendly staff but small portions and nothing special enough to make visit North Point a priority.
Boomshack: burger ($80) triple cheese chicken waffle ($90) honey sriracha chicken waffle ($90) – solidly good, but with some authentic US food truck experience among the owners it would have been nice to see something more than just the same sandwiches you can buy slightly cheaper in the restaurant.
Superstar: Assorted Korean snacks $10-$50 – if you’re going to name your outlet Superstar then you need to deliver and on the first night they weren’t.
https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2016/Food-Truck-Festival-PMQ-4-May/i-dxXsghM
The real tasty bites are to be found in the booths at the back…
Munchies: delicious home-made donuts ($40) donut balls ($10)
https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2016/Food-Truck-Festival-PMQ-4-May/i-z9p8n7c
Picada: colourful and tasty Chilean arepas snacks ($40) not on the restaurant’s regular menu.
Boomf: personalised marshmallows
And a fresh fruit stall where Andy the owner is using a hand-blender to turn watermelon and dragonfruits into fresh juices inside their own skins.
https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2016/Food-Truck-Festival-PMQ-4-May/i-Rd6K3Cp
There’s lots to drink, but sadly no seats. Running even a pretend food truck is expensive in HK so bring plenty of cash as prices are basically the same or higher than in the restaurants of the food truck vendors and booths.
Hong Kong Food Truck Festival 2016
Date: 4-8 May, 2016
Venue: PMQ
Tickets: Free
More info:
4 May – 6–10pm
5 – 7 May – 11am–10pm
8 May – 11am–9pm