La Mirada Din Din A Go Go

*moved from my old blog*

the best way to explain din din a go go is by the tagline on their site, "bringing the best food trucks to the best cities every week! " - C and i usually don't chase food trucks for a couple reasons... the major one being that some cities aren't food truck friendly. there is nothing worse than some crazy business owner wanting to shoo the trucks away or a police officer bullying a food truck to leave by using non-existent laws.  these din din a go go weekly locations make it easy for people to check out trucks and enjoy their food.  picture my excitement when i came across a tweet that a local one was opening up this week. we got there and it was buzzing with business!  look at this happy girl (not me) first stop is truck norris! filipino + hawaiian food! sisig taco($3) and short rib taco ($3) were completely yummy. our fave was the short rib taco. the marinade on the ribs were sooo good.   we debated getting something from the grill 'em all truck but passed... decided to get some cupcakes from sweet e's bakeshop. mini cupcakes were $2 each. i chose snickerdoodle, c chose smores and duke chose chocolate chip cookie dough. i wanted a chocolate chip cookie and c wanted a white chocolate rice krispy. our total was $9.25 and that kinda amazed me - i should have bought more!  they were all yummy.  c didn't even offer me a bite of his! here's the little one begging for MY cookie. he's my baby so of course he gets it lol the vchos truck was smelling good so we decided to look at the pictures on the truck. it looked so good and we went for a chicken pastelito ($3) and 3 shrimp & potato taquitos ($7) - when c picked up our order, the dude said to break the pastelito in half and put curtido before each bite. wish he gave us more curtido, it was so good! the grilled shrimp and potatoes taquitos are so freakin' GOOD.  seriously. smart people brought their own portable chairs and tables, others opened the backs of their trucks or ate off the hoods of their cars. we decided to get one last thing from truck norris before we took off... the won-tonutella ($2) - it was glorious. i could probably make this. i will probably make this.  sidebar: it was probably 8pm when we ordered this and the short rib tacos were sold out already.  so if you want 'em, go early! and our cheeseball.  yep, he's our dork. this is an awesome idea so big props to the brains behind din din a go go. it's really community & small business building. this is what works and i hope parents take their kids, parents, neighbor's kids to these type of FREE events. share new and celebrate old culture! LA MIRADA DIN DIN A GO GO @ LOWE'S PARKING LOT 14873 Carmenita Road La Mirada, CA 90650 (Carmenita Exit right off the 5N) Every Friday from 5:30-9pm Follow them on Twitter @LaMiradaDDaGG i think the trucks change every week so check twitter before you head out.  other trucks in attendance tonight were: white rabbit, grill 'em all, cheeseball wagon, slap yo mama, lomo arigato, tino's pizza, breezy freeze if you are looking for something else to do in the area, santa fe springs swap meet is also open on friday nights from 5-11pm and is only 1.1 miles from lowe's!

since writing this, la mirada din din a  go go has changed to la mirada dine n dash - from what i've read, din din a go go is still in place in certain cities.