Los Angeles
Food: Asian & Soul (not fusion)
Price: $$
Must Try: Collard Greens
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His he craving soul and do you want Asian, well now you can have both from the same food truck. Thats right LA foodies, Asian Soul Kitchen is serving up both Asian and soul inspired favorites from their food truck. Unlike other food trucks that serve only one style of food ASK is serving two quite different styles everyday. Check out this food truck below...
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Asian Soul Kitchens dedicated to doling out food from the East and Deep South all served out of a truly novel idea guaranteed to blow your mind. Get ready. Food Truck. Hearty fare includes Japanese staples like yakisoba noodles w/ mixed vegetables, and nikujaga (beef & potatoes in pork broth w/ konyaku noodles), as well as more unusual dishes, like salmon korroke (salmon & potatoes fried in panko bread crust w/ pickled yellow daikon), Asian sliders (burgers seasoned w/ asian spices and topped w/ caramelized onions, shiitake mushrooms, and cheddar on a Chinese-style sweet bun) and sweet-and-sour tamarind-topped, southern fried drummettes, called "Lollipop Chicken," because frankly, poultry sucks. Side dishes range from traditional southern collared greens w/ smoked turkey, to braised string beans w/ bacon and garlic, to creamy mac & cheese, made with a proprietary cheese blend and given a little zang via some Asian spices, as well as three types of rices: Japanese brown rice, Japanese short-grain white rice, and nutty, antioxidant-stuffed rice that's Thai and black, but just considers itself American, dammit!
This place was so gross! I thought I would give it a try one day and I was very disappointed. I ended up getting the collard greens, the shrimp taco and the stew.
The collard greens were pretty ok….. a little on the salty side. I don’t really know how you can mess up a vegetable though.
I thought the shrimp taco was going to be good because they use a lettuce wrap instead of a flour tortilla. Boy was I wrong. The shrimp filling seemed to be overcooked and mushy. it seemed like really cheap ingredients.
The stew was overcooked and the noodles were mushy. And wasn’t there supposed to be some sort of meat in there? No meat, just soggy overcooked and mushy noodles. Gross.
Stay away from this place. I would have rather spent my money elsewhere and got some edible food.
So the biggest downside in my quest to try every truck in the cityi, is that due to money, caloric intake or any other reason, i can only order so many items from a given truck in one visit. So as i was perusing the interesting menu at ASK, something caught my eye. My favorite word on any menu: SAMPLER. For $8 (closer to 9 with tax) you can try any 2 main dishes, a side and one of the three types of rice they have.
ASK is not so much a fusion of Asian and soul food, but offers dishes from both genres.
I decided to get the sampler, but left the main entree choice up to the dude taking my order, who was more than happy to help. We settled on the tamarind glazed chicken lollipops and the sliders, spicy mac and cheese and white rice (they were all out of black and brown rice)
The food came out fairly quickly considering i had 4 different items in my order.
Sliders-really small. The bun dwarfs the meat. Heavy on the taste of mushroom, real heavy. Everything has the same texture and it all
kind of mushes together.
Tamarind lollipops-I liked the texture, nice and crisp without being heavily battered, maybe just a dusting of flour and seasoning. The glaze was nice, sweet at first then a little hot tartness on the back end. Best item in the box.
Mac and cheese-I wouldnt come here for the mac and cheese. It was good for a lunch item, not to heavy on the cheese, bot not watery either. Had a little spice to it which was nice.
Rice-its rice.
I will definitely be going back to try the more traditional Asian items such as yakisoba and salmon croquettes. Plus i love me a good sampler platter.