After filling up on Japanese-Peruvian fare at Lomo Arigato and digging into Indian street food at India Jones Chow Truck, The Astronomer and I dashed over to Don Chow Tacos for a taste of Chinese-Mexican fusion.
Dominic Lau and Lawrence Lie launched Don Chow earlier this year following the tremendous success of Kogi. Both gentlemen continue to hold onto their daytime gigs and view the truck as merely a vehicle for good eats and good fun. From Kung Pao chicken tacos to “chimales” (Chinese Tamales), Don Chow offers a synthesis of cultures so unmistakably Californian that Alice Waters should consider redefining the genre of “California cuisine”.
After seeing D takes a B‘s tasty plate of carne asada chow fun, I decided to order an equally fabulous heap of the lengua variety. The $5 plate of noodles weighed close to a pound and contained tender nuggets of tongue, tangled strands of rice noodles, diced tomatoes, and shredded iceberg lettuce. I liked the tongue quite a bit, but the highlight of the dish for me was the noodles’ slight smokiness, imparted by a solid wokin’. I highly recommend sharing the chow fun with a friend or two because a pound of noodles ain’t no joke and the flavors can grow dull after the twentieth bite.
Follow Don Chow Tacos on Twitter @donchowtacos.
POWER RANKINGS
India Jones Chow Truck > Dim Sum Truck > World Fare Bustaurant < Border Grill Truck > Cool Haus > Lomo Arigato > Don Chow > Kogi > Marked 5 > Dosa Truck > Phamish
You guys have the best food trucks over there! There are some stands at various markets around London (but none near where I work >:( ) but they serve nothing like this!
Lengua chow fun???? Droooooool…
what a fun tour of the trucks! wish they’d roll up in front of the office right now – mmmm, lengua with wok hay…
Yes, definitely a good idea to share with a friend. Kicking self!
Love me some lengua! I need to get my ass in gear and check out more food trucks!
Hmmm a pound of tongue and noodles?! Does it come with a sweat band? Good thing they gave you more than one paper plate.
Wow. That’s quite a plate you got there. I’m sure i could take it on but it’d be challenging.
Looks good!
Are there any LA food trucks that you haven’t tried? Holy crap! A pound of food. That is quite the feast, my friend.
I really like your food truck power rankings. Very clever and user friendly.
As what Josh stated, good idea with the food truck rankings
oK, Kogi is Korean Mex, and now Don Chow is Chinese Mex? One can only imagine what is mex? Ahem, I mean, next!