San Diego is All in a Frenzy Over Food Trucks

Food trucks may be as common as ice cream trucks in places like New York and L.A., but the food truck craze is just cooking up in San Diego. The latest to join the fleet of mobile eats is MIHO Gastrotruck, which serves up street food with a mix Mexican and Asian flair.

Coming across one is like running into Santa. These trucks don't dish out PBJ and plain old hot dogs; they are serving inventive, delicious cuisine that rivals any gourmet brick-and-mortar restaurant.

Food trucks first rolled into San Diego about three years ago with Joes on the Nose, which focused on whipping up gourmet coffee and other drinks on the go. Others slowly followed. Now there's SD Copper Chimney, a truck that specializes in South Indian food; Tabe BBQ, which serves Asian fusion; Bare Back Kiwicoach, which cooks up New Zealand burgers and sandwiches; Food Junkies, which does Mexican-influenced comfort food; and KALBIQ, which does Korean barbecue.

Newcomers MIHO came with a built-in audience, since they worked at The Linkery, a well-known San Diego restaurant focusing on sustainable, local food. The gastrotruck's standouts include the MIHO dog, a grass-fed beef hot dog topped with bacon, pico de gallo, caramelized onions and jalapeno aioli, as well as the cochinita pibil tacos, with slow-roasted Neiman Ranch pork and pickled red onion piled on a corn tortilla.

The food trucks wheel around all over San Diego, though most of them have semi-regular spots where they offer up their gourmet food. Check out their websites or Twitter feeds to find out their schedules so that you too can have Christmas in your mouth.

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[Photos: Jennifer Kester]

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