Union City Eats--Union City (gourmet food truck event)

Every Thursday through October features the Union City food truck event at Union Landing, in the Walmart parking lot. Between 4:30pm and 9:00pm, nine or so food trucks dole out their specialties to the masses. I was fortunate enough to have been able to experience it this past Thursday and gorged myself on several fantastic dishes from various trucks.

Bigg Shrimp'n
I started out with a couple of shrimp tacos. Loaded with seasoned shrimp, cucumber, pickled carrots & turnips, and cilantro, this taco was a great start. The shrimp were fresh, had a nice spicy seasoning, and the veggies were crispy.

Rice Rockit
Following the tacos were a couple of beer-boiled longanisa sliders. Boiled in San Miguel beer, these sliders had delectable sausage, grilled red onion, garlic aioli and were topped with a fried egg. As someone who loves fried egg atop of anything, these were very tasty.

Mogo BBQ
Lucky for me, one of my favorite trucks was at this event. This time I enjoyed a dirty dog, which had bacon, jack and cheddar cheeses, lettuce/cabbage slaw and topped with a chipotle sauce. This probably wasn't my favorite dish from Mogo, as I like my dogs a bit denser, but it was a good size and had good flavor.

Gourmet Rockstars
This truck was new to me, and it was the highlight of the whole evening. Serving phenomenal burgers and probably awesome grilled cheese, this truck was also painted like "the grid" from "Tron". Being a "Tron" fan, I had to try a burger. The Electro had a thick patty of fresh ground beef that was juicy and well seasoned, melted cheddar cheese, super crispy fried onion rings with a creamy horseradish sauce. All this was piled high between a buttery, dense but soft, toasted bun. This was one of the best burgers I've ever tasted. Every single component of this burger was high quality, high caliber and highly delicious. An absolute winner, which I hope to experience again next week.