The Hawaiian Food Truck — Format & Philosophy
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Hawaiian
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Description
The Hawaiian food truck is not a trend. It is the natural evolution of the plate lunch tradition: extraordinary food from minimal kitchen infrastructure, served to anyone who shows up. Giovanniʻs Shrimp, Tin Roof (Sheldon Simeon), numerous poke trucks, Spam musubi trucks, and shave ice trucks represent a food delivery system that is democratic, affordable, multicultural, and deeply Hawaiian. The food truck IS the plate lunch freed from the counter: it goes to the people rather than waiting for the people to come. The format connects to every Pacific communal feeding tradition: the umu feeds the village, the lūʻau feeds the family, the food truck feeds the street.
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