Aloha. Let’s Do This.

29 August 2010 By emily 0 In Le Truck., Weeeee!, seriously folks

Aloha Friends of Marination Mobile!

We hope this note finds you enjoying all things wonderful and delicious.

Big news from the truck: we’ve been nominated by someone awesome for The Food Network’s Great American Food Truck Race to be America’s favorite food truck. Although we declined the terrific chance to appear on the TV show (two months hiatus from serving sliders to the great people who keep us in business made us feel yucky), we’re still in the running to be America’s Favorite Food Truck.

We’re up against trucks that roll in cities 5x bigger than ours, and street kitchens that’ve been at it for years with a network of fans spanning far and wide. Let us get right to the point here: We sooooo badly want to win.

The prize is $10,000 of which we’ll give $5,000 to Susan G. Komen Puget Sound Affiliate to kick breast cancer’s butt. We’ll use the rest to pay bills, and to throw a party for our Marination Mob, which includes our faithful, hungry supporters, and our fantastic employees.Here’s how you can help:

  • text FT44 to 66789. Regular text rates apply. For most of us that means it’s free.
  • Go to The Food Network’s website here: http://bit.ly/cS2Il8 and vote for Marination
  • pass the link & the text number above to your friends, neighbors, postman, and Mom.
  • vote TEN TIMES PER DAY! Ten texts, ten clicks, or any combination therein. You can vote ten times each day. WOW! That scares us & excites us equally.

Every time you vote you’ll be auto-entered into a chance to win a crazy good trip to the NY Wine & Food fest. Hello! That’s no backwater celebration right there. That’s good times.

Please help. Do it for tacos. Do it for Seattle. Do it because you want to see the lil’ guy (or gal, rather) climb to the top. Do it because you’re between jobs. Anything. Any reason.

Voting started today – Sunday, August 29th – and runs through Friday, September 10th. That’s just under two weeks to make the magic happen. Eeeeek!

Mahalo in advance, friends. We’re totally confident that if we all get in on it, Seattle will rightfully reign supreme!

Aloha (also means goodbye),

Your loyal Marinators

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SPAM Musubi: The only SPAM for your Inbox.

20 June 2010 By Roz 1 In Uncategorized

Happy Musubi Monday!

What is a musubi you ask?

SPAM Musubi – The perennial staple of surfers, Amazon.com employees and late-nighters worldwide. Perfectly grilled slice of SPAM makin’ love to a rectangular block of rice wrapped in a seaweed blanket and then a secret glaze. Think SPAM sushi. No soy sauce necessary. Just a napkin, and possibly a support group.

And this scolding just in from Emily: Kamala, please retrain the brain to eliminate the apostrophe on the plural form of MUSUBI (musubis, or sliders or tacos or whatevs) unless you are meaning to refer to something the musubi owns or did, like “it’s the musubi’s fault that it has that apostrophe on twitter.” They (capital T-They) are watching and it is my intent to keep our tweets FLAWLESS! Between, Emily and Chef Catherine, I need that Musubi support group I referred to earlier.

How do we get that  block of rice so perfect, you ask? We get by with a little help from our friends…

Typically, this is what we use. I’ve had this musubi maker since I was seven.

And once, I left my musubi maker at Mark Ryan winery and then had to make my own. I’d like to thank my Mom for letting me watch MacGyver as a child.

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13 June 2010 By Roz 3 In Uncategorized

“Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Dear (insert name), Happy Birthday to you!”

Yes, it’s Big Blue’s 1st Birthday, but we owe it all to you, our dear customers. You have voted for us (Good Morning America), and then voted again for us again (Daily Candy). You stood in long lines (Mobile Chowdown I, II and III), even in the rain (Nov-June). So, in honor of our 1 year anniversary, we think a treat (something sweet) is in order.

Visit us on Tuesday, June 15th at our Belltown location and help us celebrate our first year of sauciness with free dessert (while supplies last).

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Auntie “M” and the Ordering Guide!

14 March 2010 By emily 6 In Uncategorized

Front:

The next time you saunter up to Big Blue, you might get handed one of these handy dandy ordering guides. Even if we know you know how it goes down at the truck. We’re so happy with them, we just want to share the love!

Back:

Stop by the truck sometime and find out why PHIL McCRACKEN is written in all caps on the front of the guide. We amuse ourselves to no end over here.

Aloha!

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Hump Day Zen

27 January 2010 By emily 1 In another reason to love iPhone, meditation

More crucial food information brought to you by Marination Mobile. (With a little help from iPhone and Real Food in Russian Hill, SF)

Namaste.

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Sweet, sweeter….. Sweetest!

10 January 2010 By emily 3 In Weeeee!, seriously folks

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

13 October 2009 By emily 0 In meditation

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.

05 August 2009 By emily 3 In another reason to love iPhone, meditation

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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

20 July 2009 By emily 5 In Weeeee!, meditation, seriously folks

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
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!

soul clap!

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%?

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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.

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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.

14 June 2009 By emily 4 In Weeeee!, seriously folks

wednesday

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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