It was inevitable: Someone has launched a Vietnamese/Cajun crawfish business out of a food truck. Cruisin' Crawfish merges the previously divergent trends of the crawfish restaurant and the luxe lonchera movement. Please correct me if I am mistaken in saying this is the first of its kind in our area, as I would not be surprised if someone had thought of it sooner.
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If you discount for a moment that its featured food would be almost
impossible to eat with one hand while standing, it's a business plan
that's almost a no-brainer. The customers who would stand in
two-hour-long lines at the Boiling Crab are the same customers who
have stood in two-hour-long lines at Kogi.
The menu
thankfully focuses on just the butter-and-hot-sauce-soaked shrimp and crawfish variants of the dish–it does not have crab. Rounding out its
offerings are Cajun fries, fried shrimp, gumbo and fried wings.
Interested? See where the truck will be next by visiting its Facebook, Twitter or website; you probably shouldn't wear your good clothes.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.