A couple friends mentioned that a food truck festival was happening as I was planning to reach Edmonton, so we figured on hitting it and trying a few of the different trucks. I'd heard a lot about Molly Eats, as well as Drift. I'd also looked at the menu online and saw quite a few mouth-watering morsels, so off we went!
First thing I noticed, was the absolutely massive crowd. It was hard to navigate, and you really couldn't tell what line started where and what line ended where. The second thing I found out, was that a couple of trucks had already run out of food! Talk about poor planning - we'd gotten there just past 6, and the festival was supposed to go until 9. I'm sure there were quite a lot of disappointed/angry customers, and having the other lines crunched even more because other trucks were closed, didn't help.
We did manage to score a couple bites, but not very many. We found the lineup for the Lingnan truck manageable, along with the Truckin' Good BBQ truck, although they'd been cut down to a single menu item, the Burnt Rib End sandwich. If you've watched the food network in Canada, you might have seen the show called Family Restaurant: Quon Dynasty. Well, the Lingnan is that self-same restaurant, and I guess they'd branched out to a food truck as well, selling 'crack' chicken, korean spicy chicken on rice, siu mai, and noodles.
My friends and I decided to split 3 of the menu items, and picked up the korean chicken, crack chicken, and siu mai. I have to say, for 5 bucks, the siu mai was completely disappointing, but the chicken dishes were excellent. I'd definitely go get those again!
I also as mentioned, got myself a Burnt End sandwich, and while it was missing vegetables of any kind, it was far superior to any pulled pork sandwich I'd had in recent memory. The pork was tender, flavourful, nicely marbled but not too fat, and the sauce wasn't overpowering, as many other pork sandwiches tend to be.
By the time we'd gotten back to the Molly's Eats truck, it looked like one of the only trucks with any food left, and we'd theorized that had we stayed in that line, we would have been told by the time we got up there that the one thing I'd have liked to try, the bacon mac'n cheese grilled cheese sandwich was sold out, so we didn't bother, and ended up walking away from it all.
With a bit more planning and organization, this could have been much better run, but I do understand that if the truck doesn't have a runner to another kitchen/food supply, then whatever's in the truck is whatever's in the truck. I'd heard Drift sold 700 sandwiches, and that's quite the feat considering they'd closed down around 7 (I think?)
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