Food Trucks At the Fountain

I was in town over the holiday weekend and was surprised to see something like this in wichita. There were a good selection of food trucks around.. actually supposed to see TWO lumpia trucks. Didn't know they were so popular in wichita. There was a nice alcoholic beverage truck which really should have larger cups for their bloody Mary's. There's also live music and the place is gated off so you can walk around with your drink.Shame it was hot, but oh well that's wichita for you in may.

It took several years of me-too copycats to break free of the template set by Flying Stove, but we're finally at a point where Wichita's food truck scene offers the same kind of eclectic mishmash of global cuisine that you might expect to find in a larger city. The only place you're able to find German or Filipino food in this city is by standing in the great outdoors, waiting for your name to be called. You can also find some excellent New American cooking and brick oven pizza, too. They're not all easy to find, however, so your best bet is the monthly seminal gathering of pretty much every truck downtown at the Waterwalk the last Sunday of the month.The beauty of this event is that it's a one-stop shop for pretty much every food truck in Wichita. If there's one you've been dying to try, it's most likely here. The downside is that EVERYONE is here - the event "begins" at 11:30, but even then the lines are substantial. Lord help you if you show up around 1:00 PM, because by then the lines are astronomically long and trucks start to run out of their most popular items. They're set up to quickly deliver food, but not as fast as people can line up - you're dodging strollers and Duck Dynasty-clad hicks just to get the opportunity to wait in line for half an hour. Practically speaking, it would be less of an investment to go to a sit-down restaurant. One of the selling points of food trucks is speed, isn't it?Parking is plentiful, there's free music, and it's a fun time despite the wait. It's not as fun if it rained recently, because all of the grass turns to mud. But as an opportunity to try two or three different food trucks at the same time, there's little comparison. It's nice to see Wichita embrace food truck culture, even if this is the best and worst that particular culture has to offer.

Love this event! Music, people, great food & fun! #flyingstove was the choice today with #brownboxbakery for desert!!