Yumbii!!

Atlanta has joined the new food craze! We finally have food trucks. Not a significant number due to the permitting process but a handful of them have found a way to operate in private parking lots on certain days at certain hours. Yes, to keep up with these locations, you will have to check out their facebook or twitter pages. The first “so-called” food truck I heard about was the King of Pops. He is a guy who decided to make homemade popsicles after losing his job by selling them out of a mobile freezer and at Irwin Street Market. His popsicle flavors range from Strawberry Cheesecake to Blackberry Lemonade and include everything in between. When I talked to him a few months ago, he was making all of these flavors at his house. When the weather was nice out, he would usually sell out of his popsicles in a few hours. He is located at the corner of North Ave. and N. Highland Ave in the Woody’s convenience store parking lot, but again, you have to follow his website, facebook or twitter to see where he will be and when.

Back to Yumbii, this food truck was created by Carson Young, an Atlanta native and Woodward Academy graduate who decided Atlanta needed to be a part of the new food truck craze after tasting Korean tacos from the famous Kogi truck in Los Angeles. Since he did not have a great deal of experience in the food arena, he partnered with the owner of Hankook Taqueria to create a food truck called Yumbii. Yumbii travels all over downtown Atlanta and Buckhead depending on what night of the week it is. Its menu consists of Korean BBQ Tacos (beef, chicken, pulled pork or tofu), Korean BBQ Burritos, a Quesadilla, Pulled Pork Sliders and Sesame Fries. All of the food is prepared and outsourced from Hankook Taqueria and then assembled in the food truck. My friend and I tried an order of the pulled pork sliders, a chicken taco and a pulled pork taco. The tacos are topped with Hankook BBQ sauce, which includes the strong flavor of harachi sauce. I enjoyed the first few bites of my pulled pork taco and then tried the slider. To me, it tasted exactly like the taco except it was on a bun instead of a tortilla. Then I tried the chicken taco. I don’t know how to make chicken taste like pork but all three of the items seemed to have the exact same flavor. Don’t get me wrong, it was not a bad flavor, but it was strong and after a couple of bites, I wanted to try something different. Unfortunately, we did not try the sesame fries but if I go back, I would love to. I’ve heard the fries are very good.

I hope this truck continues to have success because I would love to see more of a street food movement in Atlanta. Hopefully, that day is not too far away as long as we can get permits!