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Namaste.
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Sweet, sweeter….. Sweetest!
a slightly stream of conscious love letter
You guys! We got nominated for Daily Candy’s Sweetest Things 2009 in December and we were soooo happy but then we were like “we can’t go pushing hardcore for votes because we just did that” for the Good Morning America thing which was CRI-ZAZY because we only had one measly day to get you guys to vote and it was SATURDAY no less but y’all showed up in DROVES and we got half of the total votes leaving the other three trucks to split up the other 50% which was totally jaw-dropping and made us cry in public (but we were at a wedding that day so we just mixed the tears in with the joyous nuptial tears because it’s super touching to see people you love get married) ANYHOW we didn’t want you guys to think we’re megalomaniacs and that we’ve taken our eye off of what’s important (GRUB) in favor of amassing certificates of awesomeness. So we kinda mentioned it like twice during the month+ long voting period by burying it in tweets with links to the voting page and we didn’t even say what the link was to but would just say like “hey if you’re bored at work” or something and then link but whatever we said you guys clicked through more than 300 times!which we know because we use that bit.ly thing that tracks all that stuff but ANYWAYS you guys totally ran with it! on your own! the nomination got mentioned a few times by cool folks who have experienced the aloha we’re servin’ up and y’all RT’d and RV’d and OPP’d and whatever else, and we won! Daily Candy Sweetest Thing 2009! and that is so awesome!because we love Daily Candy and people who subscribe to it are cool in-the-know folks and it was enough just to be nominated. honest! it was! 2009 was such an unbelievably stellar year for SO many reasons and a LOT of those reasons have to do with the food truck we affectionately call Big Blue (BIG BLUUUUE!) and the ridiculously awesome and diverse bunch of taco havin’ fun lovin’ high fivin’ Seattleites who join us six days a week. WOW! Awesome! Awesome. We wanted to get the blog post out right now because it’s Sunday so we have a little bit of down time before we hit the streets again tomorrow (rockin’ the new Monday location in South Lake Union hit the “find us” tab for details) but there is nothing about this time that can be called “down” because we’re so excited about Daily Candy that we’ve eaten candy daily ever since. Whew!
MAHALO!
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Food + Music + Puppets = History
Group A created a marketing campaign for something or other using puppets.
Group B hijacks puppet commercials and remixes them to music.
Group C made an important song about the evolution of food availability.
Group B remixed a puppet video to Group C’s historical and vital musical arrangement.
We are fairly new players in the food world, but we’ve become close to a whole lotta folks in a few short months. We felt it was important to take a minute out of today and pass along a message that left us dumbfounded. Truly.
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Hump Day Zen.
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Today’s meditation brought to you by a light pole in Fremont. And iPhone, of course.
Namaste.
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The Month In Review: Vol 1, Issue 1
Hello, good people!
We’ve just deleted 250 spam comments written in Greek, and by our count that means we’ve surpassed our one month birthday. Good thing there’s only one candle to blow out because this month has been such a whirlwind, we’re breathless.
- huff and puff and blow the candle down
Look, nobody knows what to expect when they open a new food truck serving up fresh attitude and nommy Hawaiian Korean cuisine. Harvard hasn’t done the case study yet, so we didn’t know to prepare for certain things. Like a group of drunks who couldn’t afford their $27 tab (which is equal to, sayyy, 45 minutes worth of orders during the lunch rush). We gave them the food, an IOU, and chalked it up to community karma. Well, flatten our tire and siphon our petrol if they didn’t come back the next night and PAY UP! Props, fellas! Holla!
We also didn’t know that joggers would run by, double back, and choose kalbi beef over finishing the jog. We didn’t know about a strapping buck named Thor who eats tacos in his car and keeps a log on youtube. We didn’t know we’d be on a first name basis with saucy die-hards like Kurt, Joe, Randy, Daryn, Kara, Anne, Herb, Jane, Stephanie, Matthew, Malek, Alex, Candace, Hui, and Fival. Fieval? 5al? Spellcheck can not save us here. But Fival can.
We DID know we’d get 100% on our Health Department inspection, though. We totally knew that would happen. We are run by clean freaks. But did YOU know we got 100%?
Weeeeeee!
We learned about In & Out Burger’s secret menu from a local food writing sheik, and also about their double secret agenda which we won’t link to because it’ll be all *AHHH CONTROVERSY CONTROVERSY blah blah blah.* Our agenda is to feed the hungry. As long as they have $2. Which brings up Calvin, our very own panhandler who stays far enough away from the truck to keep us from harassing him, and spends his loot on kalbi tacos over and over and over. Bless.
In our first month we’ve been psyched to receive attention from Daily Candy (on day #1!), from Greg of the cool videos (from day #0!), from The Stranger who didn’t totally trash us and used words like “divine” and “elegant” in their review, as well as an elegant picture of Ms. Divine herself, Kamala Saxton. (insert puckered lips kissing some serious boss a$$ right here. “A$$” btw is a spelling we picked up from a fellow tweeter called WestSeattleMama [these tacos kick A$$!] and we like it because it makes us feel like we’re in Vega$ with all that $un$hine and liquor everywhere which means lot$ of hungry drunk$ needing $pam $lider$.) We’ve got a smattering of fans on facebook, and we even got our first fan photo of a nice lady doing a happy dance after her first Marination experience. Yahoo!
But we’ll tell you something, sexy folks! Our mention is the August issue of GQ makes us feel soooooooper sexy! Page 38 page 38 page 38 is great! It makes us feel like sexy tofu. Or like that sexy tofu-eating foodie called Herbavoracious. Rawr.
We feel so hot, if Hot Wheels wasn’t already taken we’d be rebranding right this minute.
But this feeling, which we can’t fight, is that we owe it all to y’all. Our Marination Mob. Thanks for an outta sight first month, party people! Here’s to one more! Oh wait… We mean, at least one. A bunch of ones more. Anyhoo.
Chow!
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Wednesday, The Time is THINE.
Marination Mobile is kicking it on a curb near you on Wednesday, June 17th. Be there or be square. Or be out way more money because it costs a lot to eat lunch this good anywhere else in Seattle. Follow us on twitter for up-to-the-second details. @curb_cuisine
Did we mention we’re rolling on Wednesday?
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Scavenger hunt: CLOSED.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Y’all make the world go ’round. And soon you’ll make our wheels go ’round too. In the meantime (read: in our free time which we have more of than we originally planned at this point), we’ve gone and gotten ourselves all facebook-tastic. Check us out over there under MARINATION. If you find the picture of red wrapped chopsticks, you’re in the right place.
Chow! [sic intended]
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EMILY!
Did ya do it? Are we going to put our girl over the top? If you watched any of the other vids, you probably know the answer. Not bad for first timer, by the way. YES that’s what I said. That’s the first vid she’s ever made. See why we like her?
SO, you made the vid your favorite, right? Now- cut ‘n’ paste that little note they sent you into our comments section ***INCLUDING THE P.S. AT THE END WITH THE LONG LINK!***, and you’ll be a VIP guest to one of the pre-opening thingamajigs we’ll be putting on in the next couple of weeks. We don’t know yet what it means to be VIP, but it’ll be rockin.
Square deal?
Yes. Special.
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So NOT funny, it’s funny. Not.
There’s good news and bad news. The good news is our signage is done and it looks awesome! Check it:
Omigod, you guys! Did we forget to mention we’ll be serving meet? Hooo boy! $2 dollar meet make you hollar “STREET!”
Okay. Seriously folks. Our street kitchen has hit a bump in the road. It’s not a food thing. It’s not a seriously awesome-looking truck thing. It’s a… it’s…. a…. we can’t even stand to say the words… permit snafu. It’ll get fixed, and it’ll be soon, but it’s not going to be by our target opening date because that was Tuesday. As in, last Tuesday. D’oh. Opening an eatery of any kind is a tricky labyrinth. An eatery on wheels is even more, ummm, special.
We are sad. We look longingly at trucks of all genres and dream of the day ours is rolling proper.
So close, yet so far. *sigh*
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A Briefing.
Marination Mobile is Seattle’s sauciest food truck. Founded in 2009, Marination specializes in Hawaiian and Korean curb cuisine that is always fast, usually marinated in a signature sauce, frequently served in a tortilla, and mostly healthy.Our rolling street kitchen is a righteous destination for carnivores and vegetarians alike. Daily location will be posted on the website at: http://marinationmobile.com and here on the blog (most likely? Don’t hold us to that. But we think it will be. I mean, it should be, right?)
You can also follow Marination on Twitter for up-to-the-minute details on location, specials, line, and various rigamarole: https://twitter.com/curb_cuisine
(of course, right now on Twitter you are merely following our daily zen and preparation musings)
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