I know it's been a while since I last posted, but August has been a bit crazy at the best of times. Paris journal is done, internship is done and had a nice vacation to boot. And now for the food!
As soon as we hit Vancouver, after an amazing, well fed train ride from Toronto, my friend and I started scoping out the many food carts that pepper the streets of downtown. Each was awesome.
Kaboom Box!
The first was Kaboom Box, out on Granville street for the weekend pedestrian festivals. This cart focuses on fresh, local fish, sustainable meat and organic veggies for all their menu items. My friend got the kaboom box fish and chips while I had the "world famous hot smoked salmon salmwich."Both were really, really good. My salmwich had home-made maple coleslaw in it, which is normally something I wouldn't go for since I have this condition that makes all coleslaw taste the same: awful, and artificial. This was the cure for that condition, it was so fresh and different, especially with the spicy mayo. The slab of a fish steak certainly helped as well. I also finished my friend's tempura battered fish and chips. Light weight.
Hot Smoked Salmon Sandwich!!!
Tempura Battered, Kaboom Box Fish & Chips.
Our second visit was to Japadog, and we actually ended up going twice. The first time we split a Negimiso dog, made of Turkey wish miso sauce, green onions and Japanese mayo. It was unbelievably good. I'll leave it at that. The second time we tried their signature dog, the Terimayo which had teriyaki sauce and seaweed. Equally, unbelievably good. They have four carts sprinkled around town right now and are planning to open one in New York City in November of this year. If we go on the school trip again, I know where we're eating!
Japadog's Negimiso dog.
Our third visit was to the Roaming Dragon cart, which sadly wasn't operating on their regular menu since they were at the PNE when we came by. That being said, the Dragon Clubs we had weren't bad, way too much daikon and cilantro though. Lemongrass chicken makes for a great club sandwich!
Beef Dragon Club.
Our final cart was one that was recommended many times to us by Steve, our tour guide for our two Tourguys tours that we took (we didn't have time for the 'eat your cart out' tour, we did the Gastown and downtown tours. Check 'em out, they're awesome too!). A cart originally out of Tofino B.C., the Tacofino truck was by far our favorite. We both got the fish taco, which featured tempura battered cod with chipotle mayo, cabbage and salsa fresca on a flour tortilla. Holy things I shouldn't say in public, it was good. If you do nothing else in Vancouver, go to this cart, and order the fish taco. Preferably lots of them. These guys take locally and recently caught fish directly from the government docks in Vancouver and make these things from scratch, and you can taste the amazingness that goes into them.
Yep, she's holding a taco.
FISH TACOS!!!
Strictly speaking this last one isn't a cart, it's a full blown restaurant, but the lunch we had is very much worthy of written recognition. The Sandbar on Granville Island offers quite the menu, but after splitting a Tuscan flat bread with onions and goat cheese, my friend and I got the same order, the island club. Shrimp and Dungeness Crab salad come together with Bacon and Guacamole to create one hell of a sandwich. The fries were suspiciously like those one can get from a McCains bag, but still good, and the sandwich more than made up for it. It was one of the last things we did on the tip, and now that I'm back home, broke and about to start school again, it was good way to end the summer. Let fall begin with food!
The Island Club of Amazing!
As a side note to this post, the first three carts have had their photographs taken by my good friend Rob. I was too busy eating to bother, so I stole his photos for here. I am crediting him of course, so check out his Flickr feed: infectedroot
Tacofino and Sandbar are my photos, I finally remembered to take the pictures before eating the food.
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