kogi bbq excursion

wednesday night, 6:30 p.m. after checking twitter all day to see if the kogi bbq truck was coming to my neck of the woods, it said its going to be late, eta 7 pm. i leave the house to drive 1.5 miles to the location where the kogi truck was going to be. but i first had to take a pit stop at the market to pick up some diet coke. so i get to the "maybe" location where this truck was going to make its stop and i get there at 6:45 and there is a line, 50 people deep. and i think to myself, how do these people know of this!? they have no store, no advertising, (only reason why i knew of the kogi truck was because it was on an episode of the best thing i ever ate) but other than that, it was the old school way of getting business, it was the good ol word of mouth. so 7 p.m. rolls around, the kogi truck makes a nice u-turn and makes its way to the parking lot. after an hour of waiting in the freezing cold (because for some reason, here is so cal, its been cold) and figuring out what i wanted to get, i finally order: 4 short rib tacos, 2 spicy pork tacos, 1 calamari taco, 1 short rib torta, and finally 1 short rib burrito (btw i was picking up food for my entire family, we were freaking exciting about the kogi truck coming to our neck of the woods). i rushed home to ensure that was food was still piping hot, and we all take a bite out of the short rib taco, we all look at each other and say "is that it? are you serious?" tell you the truth, its whatevers. my entire family thinks the same. but you are talking to a family that goes to mexico pretty much every year and we go to the mom and pop taco places, so for us, definitely not worth the hype. but we all agreed that at least we can say that we tried it. we probably won't go back, but it was definitely fusion food. so i would recommend on trying it once, if you are willing to wait.

pro:
homemade tortilla
reasonable prices
fun experience
con:
have to wait at least 30 mins or more
the meat is dry and low quality
doesn't live up to the hype
small portions (i wish i took a picture, the taco was the size of the bottom of a standard mug)
no salsa :(