Tribute to L.A. Fans…

So… with Aliiiiiice out of the country for next week or so we’re going to miss all the capitalized L’s and the numerous “i”s in her name (except as mentioned above.)

Thanks a lot to Alice who left such a great post about who we are and what we do. I feel as if I am the Jets or that last player available for pinch-hitting (you know the one with a batting average below a buck fifty.) But just as any pinch-hitter would still step up to the box and swing away, I’ll do what I gotta do in the pitcher(Alice)’s place!

At the same time as a truck manager there are way too many things that I want to say that I haven’t been able to say on the blog. I feel like a fat kid with a box full of Halloween mix candies not knowing which one to peel off first.

Since I’m moving from the Azul to the Naranaja truck next week, I would like to send a tribute to each and everyone of you that I have served in L.A. over the past year and a half(please forgive me if I have missed some of you).

My gratitude goes out to all the customers that we served: in front of Greendoors that were saying, “what the hell? a KOREAN taco?” yet still tried our taco; in EAGLE ROCK during the summer wearing Dodger hats and jerseys and that always had a quick Dodger talk with me; in ROWLAND HEIGHTS that came out and waited 3 hours from a simple tweet (my mistake was leaving my phone number on the tweet, had 200 txt replies in 10 minutes); DIAMOND BAR, thank ya’ll for waiting on the steep a$$ slope sipping on 7-11 slurpies (thx a lot for leaving the slurpies behind ); GRANADA HILLS/NORTHRIDGE, thank you all young’uns for always coming out (stay out of trouble ya’ll); SHERMAN OAKS, thank you for coming out with your kids; CARSON, you guys are AMAZING the SAME LINE every week in SAME ORDER (my thumbs up goes to Austin, Berlyn, Jackie, Rain, and Paul); MONROVIA, I know I haven’t known ya’ll for all that long but I know i’ll miss ya; HOLLYWOOD@AMOEBA, yes I’m gonna miss all you my regulars (thumbs up to Natalie, Art, Will, Neil, Mike, and many others that I can’t remember at the moment); and last but not the least thank all of you drunk people at the BRIG!

*whew* out of breathe.

I know there are way more locations that Kogi goes to and been to, I apologize if I may have missed a lot of you regulars, just remember we do remember you when you come back to the truck. And since I’m a night manager sorry I couldn’t mention the day locations but trust me your morning managers remember ya’ll. That’s right some people think we’re a trend but we’re just like your local family-owned coffee shop who remembers you when you walk in through the door, and because we are Kogi familia there will be another family member to serve you the Kogi way. We value the relationship we have with ya’ll, and believe me when I say, “I will miss you guys.”

So with that ending note for my L.A. trucking career, here’s som’n for L.A.

Dodger Tribute

In case the post has gotten you down

Love and tacos,
Young Hizzie