Let’s be honest: your food truck is one of the dozens. You have to work hard to make your customers appreciate you. Foremost, you have to work on the menu. The opportunity to try an unusual dish is a great way to attract people. Here are some ideas.
5 Mouth-Watering Dishes
What's Inside
These are recipes based on traditional Filipino dishes.
Adobo Chicken Skewers
For some reason, the Philippines has a divine chicken. Adobo chicken is a perfect example. Add it to the menu, and people will come to your food truck from across town.
And now, the ingredients. You need chicken thighs or drumsticks (without skin and bones) and sauce. That’s it. Marinate the chicken for at least 30 minutes, put it on a skewer, grill it, and make passersby lose their minds from the flavor.
Ingredients for the sauce:
- Vinegar
- Soy sauce
- Onion
- Garlic
- Pepper pot
- Sugar
- Bay leaf
By the way, you can add vegetables to the skewer, but it’s up to your taste.
Sisig Tacos
Meet sisig, a tangible heritage dish from the Philippines. It goes well with beer or wine.
The basis of the dish is the pig’s ears and cheeks. Sometimes, pork belly and chicken liver fried in ginger are added. Pork is boiled until tender, grilled and cut into pieces.
And then everything is simple: one — put some sisig on a tortilla, two — add onions and other vegetables, three — pour guacamole or salsa, four — enjoy the well-fed and satisfied customers.
Lumpia Shanghai Sliders
It’s like crêpes with meat but better. Think about it: mix selected minced pork with finely grated juicy carrots, eggs, herbs, and spices. Spread it on lumpia, wrap, and deep-fry. Yum, isn’t it?
Lumpia, by the way, are round sheets of dough made from flour, cornstarch, water, and salt. And here’s the good news: you don’t have to cook them — they are sold as a semi-finished product.
Pancit Palabok Burrito
This is a classic of Filipino cuisine. This dish combines the ingredients so well that it’s a shame not to have it on the menu. The burrito filling is based on noodles, shrimp, minced pork, tofu, onions, and spices. For variety, lemon, egg, fish sauce, etc. are added.
This dish is incredibly hearty, and your customers will be surprised that one burrito can be so filling.
Lechon Kawali Bao Buns
Lechon Kawaii is fatty and obscenely delicious. And this dish is also crunchy. People are always attracted to food that crunches, right?
So, you take pork belly and spices. Pour in water and cook for 40 minutes until the skin is soft. Then, you cut the meat into pieces, dry it, and deep-fry it.
Now, all you have to do is fill the bun with meat and add gravy and vegetables. The gravy is usually made with soy sauce — it goes with this dish like a Christmas tree goes with Christmas. Add vegetables to your taste: cucumbers, leeks, jalapenos, carrots.
Using POS System for Making Menus and Tracking Recipes
Selling delicacies is much easier with a POS (point of sale) system. This is a program that helps you create menu items, accept payments from customers, and control warehouse balances.
Here’s how it works. 50 kg of chicken, 5 liters of soy sauce, and 10 kg of onions arrive at your warehouse. You enter this data into the POS system.
The POS system also has your recipes, and it knows that to make 1 skewer, you need 150 g of chicken, 50 ml of soy sauce, and 20 g of onions. As soon as you sell one dish, the corresponding amount of ingredients is charged off from the warehouse balances.
The POS system allows you to control costs, order the optimal amount of ingredients, and not get mixed up in calculations. Find out more here .
The Unusual Is Attractive
People want to try unique dishes again and again because it is something new for their taste buds. Remember when you first tasted pizza or a burger as a child and then wanted it almost every day, right? It works the same way. Be unique, and customers will come.
