June 18, 2016 What the Truck?! at Blatchford Tower Menus

Join us on Saturday, June 18 from 4-8pm at Blatchford Tower! Don’t forget to RSVP on Facebook here. We’ve added a few more trucks to the lineup!

R.I.P. CYXD
Photo by Chris Saulit

This event is going to be a lot of fun because it’s such a unique location. We’re going to be right on Airport Road near the Blatchford Tower (the address is roughly 30 Airport Road, you can see it on Street View here). If you make a donation to the food bank, you’ll have the opportunity to go up inside the tower too! It’s quite a view of the skyline, you won’t want to miss it. Parking is free at both ends of the street – at the Ramada Hotel on Kingsway on the west and the Alberta Aviation Museum on the east.

Here are the menus for the event (menu items & prices subject to change):

Blue Giraffe Creamery

  • Ice Cream – Fresh made ice cream frozen with Liquid Nitrogen which comes in two flavors: 1) Vanilla with your choice of topping: chocolate, strawberry or caramel -OR- 2) Wild Blueberry – $6.00
  • Mini Combo – A half serving of our delicious fresh made ice cream served with a small plain, golden delicious Belgian waffle on a stick. The Waffle comes with your choice of a milk chocolate or cream cheese flavored drizzle or maple syrup. – $5.00
  • Pre-packaged Ice Cream Sandwich and Haagen Daz bars Jumbo Freezies Pop and Water

Calle Mexico

  • Pozole – Delicious traditional Mexican dish Pozole is a homeny stew with chicken – $7.00
  • Barbacoa Tacos – Slow cooked beef marinated with spices topped with cilantro and onions – $10.00
  • Chicken tostadas – 2 crispy tortillas topped with marinated chicken, beans, lettuce,tomatoes, sour cream, radish, cheese and avocado . – $8.00
  • Tacos de mole – 3 chicken marinated with mole sauce – $10.00
  • Traditional Sopes (2) – 2 sopes (thick tortilla topped with chicken, radish sour cream and avocado ) – $5.00

Canicus Catering

  • Pizza pretzel – Pepperoni & cheese pizza pretzel – $7.00
  • Pizza pretzel – Meat lovers pizza pretzel – $8.00
  • Pizza pretzel – Veggie pretzel – $8.00
  • Pizza pretzel – Prosciutto, red onion & goat cheese pretzel – $8.00
  • Mini cheese – Mini cheese – $5.00

Cookie Love Machine

  • PB chocolate ice cream sandwich – Smooth peanut butter slathered on two of our cookies accompanied by Pinocchio’s chocolate ice cream. – $5.00
  • Vanilla ice cream sandwich – Pinocchio’s vanilla ice cream sandwiched between two of our cookies. – $5.00
  • Salted caramel ice cream sandwich – Pinocchio’s famous salted caramel ice cream between two of our cookies. – $5.00
  • Smartie ice cream sandwich – Going a little sideways with smartie ice cream and a couple of our cookies. – $5.00

the GOOD stuff

  • Daily Grind Burger – Custom grind Alberta lamb burger. Feta, kkak sauce, lettuce and pickled veg. – $10.00
  • Belly Bao – Grilled, sousvide Irving’s Farm Fresh pork belly, pickles, sauce, peanuts and cilantro, in hand made steam buns (Gua Bao). Two Buns. – $11.00
  • Larb Rice Bowl – Laotion spiced minced Irving’s Farm Fresh pork shoulder, fried egg, pickles, cucumber, carrot, nam phrik, cilantro, peanuts, jasmine rice – $12.00
  • Kettle Chips – Fried potato goodness dusted with flavour $3 bag $5 boat – $5.00
  • Belly Bao Single – Grilled, sousvide Irving’s Farm Fresh pork belly, pickles, sauce, peanuts and cilantro, in hand made steam buns (Gua Bao). – $5.00
  • Side Chips $2 with main, Water $2.25 Soda $3 Wild Child Booch: limited run, in a jar, market price, TBD

Irie Foods Xpress

  • Jerk chicken – Jerk chicken served with rice and peas with salad – $9.50
  • Jerk poutine – jerk poutine fries with cheese shredded jerk chicken and jerk gravy – $7.50
  • Ox tail – Jamaican ox tail served with rices and peas and salad – $12.50
  • Jerk burger – jerk beef Pattie with jerk mayo pineapple jerk sauce tomato and Kerry’s served with fries – $11.50
  • Jamaican patties – Beef or veggie Jamaican Pattie and a canned drink – $5.00

Jackie O’s Street Treats

  • Original Sugared Mini Donuts – Your choice of fresh sugared mini donuts(cinnamon, white, icing sugar, or plain) – $6.00
  • Strawberry Shortcake – Mini donuts with strawberry topping, sprinkled with icing sugar and topped with real whipped cream – $8.00
  • Death by Donut – Mini Donuts drizzled with chocolate and caramel sauce, sprinkled with Skor bits, and topped with real whipped cream – $8.00
  • Maple Bacon – Mini donuts drizzled with maple syrup, sprinkled with icing sugar, topped with real bacon bits, and whipped cream – $8.00
  • New Flavor debut: Apple delight – A smaller portion of our new feature gourmet mini donuts! Cinnamon sugar mini donuts, with apple topping, drizzled with caramel sauce and topped with real whipped cream! – $5.00
  • Fresh squeezed lemonade (20oz) – 5.00 Pop and bottled water – $3.00

La Poutine

  • Traditional Poutine – Hand-cut fries topped with Quebec cheese curds and gravy. Vegan cheese and gravy also available. *This item is gluten-free & vegetarian – $7.00
  • Quebecoise Poutine – A traditional poutine topped with shaved Montreal smoked meat. *This item is gluten-free – $9.00
  • Supreme Poutine – A traditional poutine topped with smokey bacon, sour cream and green onions. *This item is gluten-free – $9.00
  • Hot Wing Poutine – A traditional poutine topped with chicken that has been smothered in Frank’s red hot sauce, and drizzled with ranch dressing. – $9.00
  • Mini Poutine – A snack sized Traditonal Poutine (hand-cut fries + cheese curds + gravy.) – $5.00

Nhon Hoa

  • Chicken satay sub – Marinated chicken stir fried in rich peanut sauce and homemade spice on a crusty French Baguette with all the vegetables make it a perfect Vietnamese sub! – $7.00
  • Beef satay – Same recipe as chicken satay for beef fans. – $7.00
  • Vegetarian subs – Tofu subs, Vege satay beef subs, Vege satay chicken subs, shredded Vege chicken subs with all the different flavours for non- meat eaters! – $7.00
  • French fruit bubble drinks – 8 unique fruit blend drinks with real fruits! – $5.00
  • Spring rolls – Home made meat and vegetable spring rolls served with plum sauce – $5.00
  • rice dishes! Plate of white steamed rice topped with your choice of meat and vegetables!

Northlands Truck 1879

  • Buffalo Carrots – Local fried carrots, Louisiana hot sauce, crumbled blue cheese – $5.00
  • Lamb Merguez – Merguez sausage, Cola braised onions, pimento cheese, mint yogurt – $9.00
  • Combo – Incl. Entree feature, side & beverage – $15.00
  • Buffalo Carrots – Local fried carrots, Louisiana hot sauce, crumbled blue cheese – $5.00

See you Saturday!

June 18, 2016 What the Truck?! @ Blatchford Tower Line-up

After a successful and busy opening event back in May at Northlands, we’re ready for round two. Join us on Saturday, June 18 from 4-8pm at Blatchford Tower! Don’t forget to RSVP on Facebook here.

R.I.P. CYXD
Photo by Chris Saulit

This event is going to be a lot of fun because it’s such a unique location. We’re going to be right on Airport Road near the Blatchford Tower (the address is roughly 30 Airport Road, you can see it on Street View here). If you make a donation to the food bank, you’ll have the opportunity to go up inside the tower too! It’s quite a view of the skyline, you won’t want to miss it. Parking is free at both ends of the street – at the Ramada Hotel on Kingsway on the west and the Alberta Aviation Museum on the east.

Here’s the truck line-up for June:

Stay tuned for our truck menus post early next week and be sure to check out the event on Facebook. This event is being sponsored by the Kingsway District Association, Blatchford, and GFL Environmental.

May 28 & 29 Recap, and Save the Date for June 18!

We can’t believe the event last weekend flew by so quickly, and how lucky we were to get the weather that we did!

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Photo: Mack Male

On Saturday, May 28 and Sunday, May 29, we were joined by 38 trucks at Northlands, just outside the Expo Centre, for our very first two-day kickoff event, and we couldn’t have asked for a better weekend to hold it. Despite a rainy weather forecast for the weekend, the water works held off until after 8PM both nights, and we were left with warm, bright afternoons to enjoy a ton of awesome food!

Photo: Infinite Eye Photography
Photo: Infinite Eye Photography

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Volunteer Appreciation Meal: May 28 & 29, 2016

(video: Volunteer Appreciation Meal Sunday May 29, 2016 @ Northlands, thanks to Caleng Chang, WTT organizer,  for producing)

OUR VOLUNTEERS NEVER GO HOME HUNGRY

What the Truck?! volunteers lend a hand to keep our sites clean and tidy.  We strive to leave every location we utilize as clean, (OR cleaner), than we found it.

Our Northlands event on May 28 & 29, 2016 had over 12K people tell us they were interested in coming for dinner via Facebook.  Yikes! That’s a LOT of dirty dishes.  Imagine each person eating just one serving of food and drinking just one beverage, and you can get an idea of how much garbage is produced.  And let’s be real; who only eats ONE serving when they attend a What the Truck?! event! 😉

Our volunteers work extremely hard picking up the trash, and packing up the disposables.  It is certainly not glamorous, but so necessary to make the event safe & pleasant for all in attendance.

Why would anyone pick up garbage for 4 hours?

All of our volunteers are #yegfoodtruck supporters, and each volunteer has their own favorite truck.  Our volunteers are thanked by the food trucks each shift that they help out.  Thanked with the best food on earth — #yegfoodtruck food!!

The trucks DONATE meals for our volunteers; as their appreciation for the hard work they do on their behalf.

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The volunteer appreciation meals for May 28 & 29, 2016 at Northlands included generous & delicious donations from the following trucks:

Calle Mexico

Canicus Catering

Crooked Fork

Cuisine on Wheels

Dedo’s

Divine Crepes

Explore India

The Good Stuff

Jeepney Jaytee

Jimmy Poblano’s Southwest Cantina

Little Village

Meat Street Pies

Molly’s Eats

Northlands Truck 1879

Phat Tony’s

Pink Taffeta

Rapscallions

Roots Patties

Sailin’ On

SoCal Smoothies

Soner’s Donair

Spice Rickshaw

Truckin Good Eatz

THANK YOU to our #yegfoodtrucks  for taking such good care of our volunteers.  YOUR food is why they volunteer!  Also, thank you to Northlands for the ice and water when we ran out!

If you are interested in volunteering for a What the Truck?! event, please send an email to team@whatthetruck.ca.

Our next event is scheduled for Saturday June 18, 2016 at Blatchford Field  Come on out from 4:00 – 8:00!

 

 

Volunteers: May 28 & 29, 2016 @ Northlands

IMG_9954Saturday May 28 & Sunday May 29, 2016 was the first What the Truck?! food truck Extravaganza event of 2016.

 

When we started planning this event, (our largest so far), we knew that 40 – 50 food trucks each day for 2 days, would require an outstanding volunteer crew.

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Many hands make light work; we are so grateful to the 84 helping hands we had this past weekend.  Our May 2016 volunteer crew was comprised of:

6 returning volunteers – thank you, old friends, for your continued support.

7 new volunteers – (including 2 family groups with youths) – thank you, new friends, we hope you come out again.

1 DJ- thank you DJ EK  for spinning some great tunes on Saturday.

Edmonton Food Bank volunteers – thank you to Susan for coordinating your team.

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12 Red Shoe Society Northern Alberta volunteers – (including 1 family group with a youth) – thank you to Greg, Monica & Aimee for coordinating your team.

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7 St John Ambulance volunteers – we love having St John on site for the safety and welfare of all of our attendees.

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3 What the Truck?! family members – if you are married or related to a WTT organizer, you are always on volunteer standby. 😉

Thank you to all the volunteers; you helped to make the 1st What the Truck?! event of 2016 a smash success.

If YOU would like to volunteer for What the Truck?! this year please send an email to team@whatthetruck.ca.

Our next event is June 18, 2016 at Blatchford Field, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.  We welcome you to come out and join us as an attendee or to come out to lend a hand and volunteer.

What the Truck?! is 100% volunteer organized and executed because: #volunteeringisFUN.