{"id":606,"date":"2008-11-09T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatinoc.com\/?p=606"},"modified":"2008-11-09T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T20:00:17","slug":"koos-catering-truck-tustin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/oc-food-reviews\/koos-catering-truck-tustin\/","title":{"rendered":"Koo&#8217;s Catering Truck &#8211; Tustin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will just be a quick review of the Sweet Rice Pan Cakes called Hotteok from Koo&#8217;s Catering Truck in Tustin that is located just in front of Freshia Market.\u00a0 I&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocweekly.com\/2008-08-07\/features\/brother-can-you-spare-a-taco\/\" target=\"_blank\">heard about this truck from O.C. Weekly back when they had the cheap eats 2008<\/a> and tagged it as something I&#8217;d like to try out.\u00a0 Friday night after we had dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatinoc.com\/index.php?s=mini+cafe+santa+ana\" target=\"_blank\">Mini Cafe in Santa Ana<\/a> the Mrs. and I trekked down Red Hill to Koo&#8217;s.\u00a0 As we entered the parking lot I was expecting to see a catering truck, since I have seen pictures of said truck on Yelp, but instead of a truck there was a small cart that an Asian man and woman were sitting\/standing at waiting for customers.\u00a0 I&#8217;m assuming they just use the cart now since it&#8217;s probably less expensive then a whole truck.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-607\" style=\"width: 90px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"thickbox\" href=\"http:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinoc\/files\/2008\/11\/img_0034.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"607\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/oc-food-reviews\/koos-catering-truck-tustin\/attachment\/img_0034\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/files\/2008\/11\/img_0034.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa 3.0&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1226084552&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_0034\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Koo&amp;#8217;s Catering Truck &amp;#8211; Hotteok&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/files\/2008\/11\/img_0034.jpg\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-607\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatinoc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img_0034-90x120.jpg\" alt=\"Koo's Catering Truck - Hotteok\" width=\"90\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Koo&#039;s Catering Truck - Hotteok<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Regardless I ordered two of the only thing they sell, Sweet Rice Pan Cakes and brought them back to the car for the Mrs. and I to try.\u00a0 The first thing I noticed is that although they didn&#8217;t appear to be hot from the outside, the pancakes were nearly molten hot inside!\u00a0 Mrs. DanGarion took the first taste and declared it inedible, she didn&#8217;t like the fact that the pancake tasted like it was undercooked.\u00a0 But she tends to be a little less adventurous then myself and can be picky about her sweets.\u00a0 I took a bite and I really enjoyed the chewy consistency.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to describe exactly how the pancake tastes since I&#8217;d never had something like it before, but the flavors were very familiar, a slight sweet brown sugar flavor and maybe just a little cinnamon.\u00a0 It&#8217;s probably not for everyone but I enjoyed the doughy rice pancakes and was happy to get to eat not only the one I ordered for myself but also the one that the Mrs. didn&#8217;t approve of!<\/p>\n<p>My rating [xrr rating=4\/5]<br \/>\nMrs. rating [xrr rating=1\/5]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Koo&#8217;s Catering Truck<\/strong><br \/>\n14551 Red Hill Ave.,<br \/>\nTustin, CA 92780<\/p>\n<p><em>Their hours in Freshia Market&#8217;s parking lot are weekends only,<br \/>\nFriday 5pm-10pm and Saturday and Sunday morning to night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[ad] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will just be a quick review of the Sweet Rice Pan Cakes called Hotteok from Koo&#8217;s Catering Truck in Tustin that is located just in front of Freshia Market.\u00a0 I&#8217;d heard about this truck from O.C. Weekly back when they had the cheap eats 2008 and tagged it as something I&#8217;d like to try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[40,48,58,95,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-oc-food-reviews","7":"tag-breakfast","8":"tag-cheap-eats","9":"tag-dessert","10":"tag-korean","11":"tag-tustin","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgNGWN-9M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}