Food Truck Friday: 'Southern Taiwan Food Truck'

Well, it is a blue Friday. It is a nice dry Friday, but it's also food truck Friday. Yes. This is Julie, right? Hi, Julie. And this is your food truck called Southern Taiwan. So please tell us, how did you get started here with Southern Taiwan? We started in 2017. It's been almost 10 years. All right. What inspired your food? It's a southern Taiwanese bento, it's inspired by the train, actually. There's a plenty of trains that goes around Taiwan, so right by the train station, there's always rice and vegetable, that's where the original bento idea come from. So you did not know that, that is so cool, now I know. So it's always rice and vegetable, right now you have the crispy chicken nugget, and This is the sha cha chicken breast with our special sha cha sauce with it. That looks fantastic, how is that sauce made? What is in there? We have ketchup, we have seafood paste in there, it's sweet and sour. I have the special marinated egg, you have to try that, that's our signature. Okay, I'm going in. I'm going in, Bill. And while you're doing that here, how did you get started with cooking? Taiwanese brother that we started. So his mom is very good at making food, so he's always making food for the friends and families. And we make it at the parties and then he started, why don't we just start a business? Because when you're eating and you're thinking like, this is really good. This could be something. This could be something, yes. And turns out you've been able to do it through the pandemic. Yes. And continue on here to now. We made it, yes. This is the scallion chicken, chicken breast, it's not deep fried, it's the most healthy dish. Adam, you got the health- I picked the most healthy dish. The marinated egg is really interesting, what's it marinated with? Soy sauce, there's three or four different kinds of sugar, it takes times, like three or four hours on the slow fire, so it's a whole pot. What about the cabbage here? It's so good. It's cabbage, we cook with a deep, like a big wok that we cook about. To stay so crunchy fresh because I feel like I put mine in and it gets real soggy. You gotta do it quick. You gotta do it quick. Bill, how is it so far? This is fantastic. I need a knife for this though. Yeah, what do you think, yeah? It's so delicious, but I'm gonna try some of Bill's sauce. This is exactly what I needed. This is absolutely delicious, light and a wonderful, what is your favorite dish out of all of these to pick from? How's this that one you have right there? Oh good. Okay, I'll try it. And for you, where can people find you if they want to come and they want to visit your truck? Where are you located? We are food trucks right by the Sphere, Six and Republic, right by the Moxie Hotel. Fantastic. And it's not just these dishes here, you guys also have some other offerings. Do you want to explain like what other things? Yeah, we have healthy dishes like scallion chicken, spicy version of that, and then every day we have special. Right now, today, we do have some chicken wings for you guys if you wanna try. Oh my God. Yeah, we have chicken wings. Do you have chicken wings? Can we get those out? Chicken wings for you guys. Yeah, let's check that out too. We have veggie curry as well for vegetarians. Do you like the spicy food? Yes, we have a special version for that. You gotta try it. What's this one? This is braised pork chop, that's number six. Number six, oh no. You're sick, no, look at that. Yeah, you're just going, just go to town there. Go for it, yes. You gotta have good lunch or have a good day. That's great. How has the community responded to you guys where you're at? We were fortunate you know to survive pandemic, so while we're working in downtown Seattle, we're lucky to have them and I think they will like us as well, so we're very lucky. Absolutely. And you know what, this is a lot of food. It feels so dense, so heavy. I know I'm getting a lot here. You can get two meals out of that, right? It's a twofer, a twofer, thank you. Julie, I wanna thank you so much for coming out. Thank you for having us. Yes, thank you so much, the food looks fantastic. I know when these guys are quiet that the food is delicious. Thank you so much for joining us here on Good Day Seattle for Food Truck Friday. Have a great weekend. You can check out Southern Taiwan. Go this weekend, take down Chiefs and have a great weekend. We will see you on Monday.