Eat the Street Kaka’ako

I saw out there too many these taco trucks and wonder why they don't something else instead. Food sellers with no imagination just copy each other.

This was the first one I went to, as I was working the night of the first one... All I can say is, this was an AWESOME event. Great food, and more importantly, great people! Got to meet so many of my twitter friends IRL for the first time, and meet up w/ a few again as well. Special shouts to NonstopHonolulu and @streetgrinds for hosting such an amazing event. Shouts to my twitter buds, Melissa808 docrock jermel_lynn thedailydish johngarcia nonstopmari @atmarketing hikino EsmeInfanteNii @myama99 @gayagirl @baddog808 it was awesome seeing all of you! Here's to the next EAT THE STREET!!!

Loved it! An Amazing Night! A Truly Successful Evening ~ Thank you NonStopHonolulu for the Media Coverage, its Priceless, Kamehameha Schools for sponsoring the Venue, and to our Rock Goddess, Poni of Street Grindz for creating the start of the LunchTruck Movement. Yes, we are the Old-Timers on the West Side, our Lunch Trucks have served Hungry Workers in Campbell since 23 years ago with Pines & Sassy Kassie LT. But Eat The Street, gives a whole new light and motivation to go another 20 yrs. Thank you Poni and Crew, we are truly grateful and humbled to be a part of Street Grindz and Eat the Street. Much Mahalos!!

Mahalo for all the feedback! Will take your thoughts to our next meeting and share them with Poni from Street Grindz. Keep the input coming!

It was super fun! it was like a reunion for all of my jobs since I saw most of my co-workers from all four jobs there! But certainly, more tables, more light (since there was hardly any towards the end of the night), rubbish/recycle bins, and maybe a common area/stage near the tables for more performances?...this is all the feedback that I got from my friends.

BUT OVERALL A GREAT EVENT FOR BOTH HAWAII PEOPLE AND FOOD! Loved it. Hawaii has never seen something like this. :)

I loved the food, but my favorite shot of the night is of tadasauce meeting dseohonolulu for the first time and asking, "Do you recognize me from my pictures?
http://twitpic.com/43uegs

That was a lot of fun, guys! Let's do it again, OK? :)

I've thanked them on Twitter last night, but let me thank them here as well. Thanks to NonstopHonolulu and streetgrindz for another great event!

How can you follow after the great harrycovair ? He nailed it spot on, complete to the sorrow of not being able to try everything (I feel your pain, harrycovair , and I know what you speak of. Let us drown our sorrow in frozen hot chocolate from the cafe truck ) The one thing that he missed but was certainly a contributing factor: the great weather, especially given just a few days prior we were storming with hail, thunder and lightning, and shake, rattle and roll with a small earthquake.

I've only a couple of minor suggestions: place another recycle/compost tent in the middle of the truck quad to get the rubbish from people standing/waiting/roaming in line, and make sure it's in place before the start of the event. It kind of caught them by surprise when a couple of the vendors, by public pressure and demand, started to serve a little earlier than the 5:00 p.m. announced start. Maybe some tables, chairs and tents in the quad, too (but I know they would be quickly filled and overwhelmed), and maybe cover the eating area like it was last month in case of inclement weather. But that's minor and easily corrected. Overall, a very, very good job by everyone!

Bigger area, more fuud trucks, convenient location for the downtown folks, awesome logistics (Food Waste and Composting, Potta Potties), massive crowd of people that seemed organized. What more could Eat The Street ask for?

The bigger area is deceptive, to a point, about the crowd turnout. I'd guess more than 3000 peeps showed up. Had folks in casual Aloha wear early on standing in line, around 1630 - 1730, when the Federal and State offices closed. I was in my car and saw peeps with laptop bags walking DIamond Head bound on Halekauwila Street keep on turning and looking at the fuud trucks, talking amongst themselves, and then finally turn back and walked thru the parking lot towards the trucks.

Judging by the lines themselves, you can guess who the frontrunners are in the new generation fuud truck frenzy. The line formed for melthnl before they were even ready to serve. http://twitpic.com/43txjd (photo taken about 445pm) If you weren't there at 5pm when melthnl opened their "window" the line was already about 80 deep. http://twitpic.com/43txv7 This would mean a long wait for the latecomers.

korean taco truck also had a long line forming just before opening time. http://twitpic.com/43txpl

I'm happy that there was ample space for all the fuud trucks to serve their fare. I'm not happy that I didn't get to sample half the fare that was offered but there's always a next time.

Kudos to the coordinators and organizers: johngarcia (representing KSBE I assume), streetgrindz , nonstophonolulu and TV coverage by kitv4 Sorry if I inadvertently missed some folks.

BTW, twitvite sent out a tweet requesting feedback on #EatTheStreet. Hopefully everyone will fill in the survey and that someone will get to read the comments.

Mahalo for a good job and well coordinated function.

Amazing turnout and great event! Mahalo to all who came out to support Hawaii's food truck movement!

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