Oakland Eat Real Festival

Last Saturday, boyfriend and I drove to Oakland to go to the Eat Real Festival.  First off, it was pretty crowded.  You know where food was good by how long their lines were!! Fortunately, the lines moved pretty quickly.  Each vendor sold only 2 or 3 items from their full menu.  Each item was around $3-$5, but it seriously adds up when you're buying an item or three off each truck X_X What else was  bad about it was that some vendors pre-made their food, so it wasn't as good as if it were fresh off the grill.  Luckily, I made it to all the vendors I wanted to visit :)

Kung Fu Taco

Nun Chuck Chicken Taco

 This taco was by far my favorite from the entire day! I like it much better than mogos!The chicken and the sauce was sweet and tender, and the carrot sauce gave it a nice tarty punch :)  And after I bought and ate this, a guy gave me a ticket to get another FREE TACO :) SCORE!!! :D

Gobba Gobba Hey

Matcha Green Tea w/ Lemongrass Frosting

Orange Cardamom Ginger w/ Saffron Frosting

I bought two, matcha w/ lemongrass frosting and orange cardamon w/ saffron frosting, and I put it in my bag to eat later. I didn't get to eat it until I came home, but silly me, I completely forgot to take a picture of them!! X_X

Matcha was REALLLY GOOD. It was like eating a cupcake :)Nice and light tasting, and the frosting tasted like cream cheese frosting actually. The cardamon one just tasted to "spice-y". The spices were a  too overwhelming :P

Chairman Bao

$3.50 each?? X_X

their full menu.  those $3.50 baos normally only cost $2.98 :P

3 pork belly baos, 1 crispy garlic tofu bao, 1 red sesame chicken bao (shared between 4 of us)

 These were interesting to try, but not worth  $3.50 for each of them :P The tofu bao was not that great. Despite its "crispiness", it's interior in just tooo soft and doesn't go well with banh bao buns. The chicken was OKAY but really messy to eat. I only took a small bite, because it looked spicy. The pork belly was the best out of all three!  It simply had enough meatiness and sweetness to compliment the baos.  The daikons were sour, but it complemented the pork fat well.

Senor Sisig

1 Pork Sisig Taco and 1 Beef Sisig Taco

While the boyfriend and I were waiting for our baos, my friend and her bf waited in line for this.  I thought it was adobe tacos, but they were sisig? I'm guessing its another type of filipino meat dish.  This was alright... like Mogo's it just tastes like a normal taco!! Nothing special....

Seoul on Wheels

Bulgolgi Taco

I actually wasn't going to buy anything from this truck, because I was tired of eating tacos.  But after seeing that they had bulgolgi tacos, I just absolutely had to try them!!  MmMM bulgolgi!! Definitely better than Mogo's korean tacos.  Unfortunately, I didn't get to try these tacos at their best, because they gave me a pre-made taco, that was COLD!!! >\ 

The Creme Brulee Cart

Vanilla Bean Creme Brulee

MmMMm, I was waiting all day to try this!!! I would've tried it first, but everyone else wanted to eat meatier foods before desserts lol.  My friend went to the festival on Friday and told me that they had more creme brulee flavors, but it's okay Vanilla is a classic and probably the best!!  What I liked best about The Creme Brulee Cart was that they torched the creme brulees just before they give it to you, awesome!! I absolutely enjoyed eating this, and all its custardiness and its sugary crunchy top, yum!!!

Fat Face

LOOK  AT ALL THE FLAVORS!!!!

Thai Tea & Sweet Potato

Honey Dew & Wasabi

Watermelon & Pineapple

My friend really wanted to get this after seeing someone eat a thai tea flavored popsicle.  We were quite intrigued by all the different flavors we could try.  Boyfriend really wanted to try cucumber mint pineapple, but the lady in line before us got the honeydew wasabi and said it was really good and recommended it and thus convinced us to try the honeydew wasabi too.  At first, it was pretty good, all you could taste was the honeydew, and if you let the popsicle sit in your mouth, you could taste a wasabi aftertaste.  But as you get closer and closer to the core of the popsicle, it was all wasabi, well more like a fruity wasabi because of the honey dew X_X But as you get to the end, the wasabi taste waned away lol.  My friend's thai tea pop just tasted like thai tea, quite tasty! And my other friend was much less adventurous, his watermelon & pinapple popsicle tasted just the way it sounds lol.

Oakland Cupcake Company

Red Velvet Strawberry Shortcake

On my quest to find a cupcake to end my day with, I found this stand!  The Oakland Cupcake Company is actually not opening until another month or so, so it was nice to support a brand new upcoming bakery!! They were also selling these pie lollipops for $2 each, but I wanted my money's worth and to satisfy my cupcake craving, so I went with red velvet for $6.  But I didnt realize that it was actually a red velvet strawberry shortcake.  Basically, it was a strawberry shortcake with strawberries and whipped cream and red velvet cake instead of shortcake.  This was suprisingly REALLY GOOD!!! I'm quite happy I bought this :)

51st State

Cactus Fries

We were all pretty much done eating, but my boyfriend was intrigued by the sight that said "cactus fries". So i figured, why not? When are we ever going to be able to try cactus fries ever again??  Well... these cactus fries sounded exotic, but didn't taste like anything spectacular.  Honestly, it tastes like any deep fried vegetable, or more like deep fried asparagus or something like that.  It was $2 for this small basket of fries, not worth the fries, but I wouldn't mind giving up $2 to try something new!


That was pretty much everything I bought and ate.  Overall, I spent about $40 on food between me and the boyfriend.  Pretty expensive day, but I think it was worth the experience.  Because when I think about it, I would've spend all these foods anyhow at some point of my life, but I just happened to spend it all in one day because all these food trucks congregated in one day, lol.  And I saved my myself time and gas :)  lol!  Good rationale, yes?? lol.  Well here are some pictures of the other vendors there that I didn't eat at. 

I kept seeing people holding and eating this everywhere.  I'm not a big fan of corn, so I didn't try this, but my friend bought one.

Spencer on the Go! I didn't know until after the fest that they were in the Food Network's Great Food Truck Race.  Pretty cool!  I wanted to but decided against trying their food, just because there were other foods I really wanted to try first.

I thought this was where my friend bought me the tacos, but I dont think they had tacos here, lol.

Cookie Monster

Oh!  One of my good friends went up to Davis that same day to clean up her apt and stopped by Let Them Eat Cake for me, since it wasn't open the last time I went up to visit.  :)  This cupcake was pretty interesting, It had cookie dough in the middle!!  It was quite tasty but a bit sweet since it was a cookie flavored cupcake! lol  I traded with my friend a Pretty in Pink strawberry cupcake from Love at First Bite in Berkeley :)  After trying all these cupcakes from everywhere, it's still my favorite bakery!  I picked that cupcake especially for her since she loves pink lol :)

At the end of the day, boyfriend and I quickly visited UC Berkeley campus to visit this wall, which we are a part of LOL Luckily, we're on the side that no one really looks at lol But it's still pretty cool, *sigh* I miss Berkeley!!