Food Phenomnomom!

Its been and gone but here are my pictures from Food Phenomnomnom held on the 1st of June at the Cooparoo Bowls Club. On arriving there, the place was absolutely packed! There wasn't parking to be found for a good ten minutes or more around the venue. We ended up going down the main road nearby and finding a side street to park on.

We did a quick run through of all the food trucks before making our plan of action. So here are the vans that showed up! First is the Neko Neko food Van, a Japanese food van selling sushi, Japanese sweet treats like fish shaped azuki bean pastries, udon dishes and bento boxes.

Closest I could get

This is the Pasta Cruiser, which sells freshly made pasta with a variety of traditional and non traditional pasta sauces.

Same for these guys

Thumbs up hotdog, had a massive line up and served five different types of hot dogs. The kicker for this food van was the huge amount of condiments they served with the hot dogs.

Ehh I'll just take photos of their sign

Juan More Taco is a Tex-Mex taco van, owned by one of my work acquaintances. They sell five different tacos, pork, chicken, beef, veggie and a special of the day.

Cute set up

Roam'in pizza is a wood fired mobile pizza oven that serve a variety of different pizzas as well as wraps.

Click on the photo to enlarge!

When I had arrived the Meatball Spot were telling everyone that they had completely run out of everything barring the wedges and were hastily restocking at the nearby Woolies/Coles. Its a pity cause I really wanted to have some. I didn't see them reselling meatballs until we left around 4pm.

Someone on IG said they were amazing ):

This is King of the Wings, they rocked up as I was getting there and I immediately hopped in line.They had five different wings for sale, the American BBQ with a hint of bourbon, bee sting with honey, sesame and chilli, the Southern Spice, a dry spice rub with a tasty herb mayo accompaniment, the Portuguese Crumb, a super crunchy coating with Portuguese flavours and the Chilliology, a mix of three of Australia's hottest chillis. You could also get steamed garlic butter chicken rice as a side or french fries. They also served potato samosas and veggie spring rolls for the vegetarians.

I saw Manda while I was in line and her let her cut in because she looked super sad when she saw how long all the other lines were.

Oooh~

While I spent an eternity in line for the King of the Wings van, I saw this van pull up from nowhere. Its the Kai Kart! New Zealand style pies, sweet baked goods, drinks and real fruit ice cream. 

Yay~

They sold out of most things really, really fast

I got super bossy and demanded everyone split up. I forgot my wallet at home which was pretty mortifying so I borrowed money off VGirl to stand in the line at King of Wings. HKBoy went to get pizza and also the tacos while VGirl and Mini VGirl derped around the trunks.

Veggie Pizza!

We got a vegetarian pizza for VGirl to mostly eat it had a very thin, slightly crisp base which probably would've been much crisper if we had eaten it as soon as we had gotten it. It had capsicum, spinach, olives, pineapple, mushrooms, onion, cheese and cherry tomatoes. There was a lovely wood smoked flavour to the pizza from the oven that they used.

Pizza~!

We grabbed one of each taco to split between us. From top left and going clockwise, there is the beef, chicken, veggie and then pulled pork tacos.

Oooh~

The sharing was made a bit more difficult by the fact that I was recovering from having a nasty upper respiratory track infection of some sort. So I was unable to share bites with everyone else, we decided to pinch off a bit of the meat off each taco and make our decisions to our sole taco each. It actually turned out quite well because we all had very different favourites.

The taco on the left is the slow braised beef in chipotle and adobo sauce with salsa verjo, pico de gallo and queso fresco. Salsa verjo being a simple red sauce made from onions, tomato, chilli and garlic. Pico de gallo is a basic fresh sauce made from tomato, garlic, coriander, onion and jalapenos. While the queso fresco is a feta like textured cheese that they get specially made from a cheese maker. I liked this one the most.

The chicken was the universal favourite on the right, I think they actually made it a differently to what they had on their website. They were chicken thighs marinated in achiote paste that were super tender and flavoursome. None of us realised that the green stuff on top was a super potent, home made jalapeno sauce that destroyed HKBoy's and Mini VGirl's taste buds. Manda had some too and she agreed it had a nasty burn. Mini VGirl had to run away to find a drink to quench the burn, she scraped off all the sauce and ate the rest of her taco quite sadly.

Not bad

HKBoy picked the pulled pork taco that got topped with some bright pink pickles. The pork was the universal second favourite. It was very tasty from memory.

The one on the right is the vegetarian taco that has spiced, crunchy pepitas, zucchini, roasted capsicum, fresh corn, tomatoes and queso fresco. VGirl wasn't particularly impressed by it and she said that the portions are quite small compared to some of the other Mexican places that she went to. She mostly ate the vegetarian pizza and ended up eating some fresh berry ice cream from the Kiwi van to fill herself up. I quite liked the pepitas that were in the taco. She also didn't at the bright green jalapeno sauce.

Hmm~

The main part of our meal were the wings from King of Wings. We got a 20 pack for $24 with a choice of four flavours. I decided that we would get every flavour but the Chilliology as VGirl said that the other people couldn't handle the spice.

Delicious wings. The smell was incredible.

So from upper left going clockwise, its Bee Sting, American BBQ, Southwest Spice Rub and then the Portuguese Crunch. The Bee Sting was sticky sweet with a mild chilli hint, which was Mini VGirl's favourite.

The American BBQ was Manda's favourite, she ordered her own box with the American BBQ and the Southwest Spice Rub. She remarked that the she was used to have a bit of a saucier wing, and the Southwest Spice Rub was quite dry compared to the American BBQ. That being said, she didn't go for the creamy herb mayonnaise that was on offer. We were both surprised they didn't do a classic buffalo wing.

The Southwest Spice Rub was my favourite, nice and crunchy and it went wonderfully with the herb mayonnaise. I really enjoyed it. I loved all of it though, I could eat any of these wings again and again. If I saw them at a market or something, I would gladly buy another box of the stuff.

The Portuguese Crunch was HK Boy's favourite one, he said he loved its super crunchy coating and the flavours in the batter they used.

Delicious wings

While we were eating, we sat at the back of the lawn bowls court. We saw a lot of little kids running around with nothing to do and completely unsupervised. When this lawn bowls game started below, a lot of kids were running around picking up the heavy balls and ruining the game, they were warned off constantly but it kept happening. As soon as one adult had turned their back, another kid passing by would see the ball and try and pick it up. One kid put himself in time out straight after an elderly man disciplined him about nearly getting knocked over by a heavy lawn bowl.

Serious lawn bowls

We had a chat to the lady organising the event while we were eating, two of the promised food trucks never showed up, a chocolate dipped strawberry van and the frozen yoghurt van. They didn't even bother to call them and inform them of it.