T-Town Taco Trucks

Growing up as a teenager in California led to a certain father-son ritual which revolved around eating; well as a teenager, all father-son outings involved food. One, however did endure over the years, visiting and sampling various Taco trucks around the area. Now, for the past six years I find myself here in Tacoma. A place where my father does not live, the Mexican food is consistently decent (at best), yet the yearning for a plate of dollar tacos of various and questionable meat origins, still exists. So I present you this, my story of long lost love, of midnight eats, and an attempt to rekindle that feeling in your stomach that only 10 bucks worth of cheap, delicious tacos can fill.

The smell that triggers the memory:
It was 1:00am, I depart with several lovely friends from the New Frontier bar downtown. My head is filled with thoughts of grandeur, success, dreams & inventions on the horizon, and for some reason terrible jokes about Jesus & Heaven. I know tomorrow I''ll be flat on my back disowning my lovely friends, and swearing off alcohol for 10 hours. Then the noise begins, it starts in my stomach and soon spreads to my soul. It represents a hunger, a need, for cheap, delicious, soul-satisfying food. As we open the door to leave, the light shines upon us, blinded the smell hits me first, I know this smell. Composed of a certain type of grease, fresh cut limes & onions mixed with cilantro, add to that a hint of exhaust. This is the smell of a taco truck. Enriques taco truck to be exact. 3 Tacos later (damn those bartender tips, alas that's all the cash I had), uno de birria, uno de carnitas, y uno mas de pollo. I was satisfied. What I remember from the experience? Not much, but i'm in doubt as to whether or not the experience happened, after all how often do you wish a taco truck into existence? And it works?

South 12th & Junette
I've consumed ~ 15 Tacos from this truck. Good? Yes, they add the nice compliments of a roasted jalapeno, pickled carrots, spicy verde salsa. Carnitas were delicious, not dry, Birria (consistently my favorite) was good with ample amount of grease/fat (growing up Chinese, you gotta love it). I stayed away from the chicken, because seriously? Who would get chicken when pork is available? My co-worker/friend/fellow fried chicken lover, had a burrito. Skip the burrito, this truck has TACO written on the front for a reason. One regret, it has been to damn cold to eat tacos outside.

Yakima & South 38th
My bud and I stopped here to refuel before heading into the East Asian Supermarket (more on this establishment later). Wolfed down a carnitas & birria (the staples) taco in 35 seconds. Delicious, they also have a 2 for a buck deal on puerco y pollo tacos... I'm wary of this. Not great tacos I would say, use a red salsa, skimped on the cilantro and onions. Birria was good though, stewed and cooked much longer than other taco trucks, had that delicious red look to it. Damn, i'm getting hungry.

I know there are more Taco trucks out there. I will find you, believe me that, I will find you...
Side note: Thanks Pops for getting me hooked on these