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FRITZI BODENHEIMER: Food trucks are an increasingly popular way to buy food on the streets of American cities. Some of these kitchens on wheels combine different ethnic dishes to satisfy American tastes. One example is a Mexican taco with a Korean flavor.
KAMALA SAXTON: “It’s wrapped in a corn tortilla – Mexican, taco truck. We have a spicy pork, which is very Korean.”
Korean tofu taco
MARIO RITTER: Kamala Saxton owns Marination Mobile, a food truck in the northwestern city of Seattle, Washington. A Korean taco might be a new taste for a lot of her diners. But Ms. Saxton says where she comes from, Hawaii, people like to combine different dishes.
KAMALA SAXTON: “It’s truly the mixed plate in Hawaii. For instance, I’m Korean, Hawaiian, Filipino and Spanish. And given that, you have someone in your family that knows how to cook one of those ethnic dishes.”
FRITZI BODENHEIMER:Jane Ziegelman writes about the history of street food in New York. She says the city’s push cart vendors offered a way for people to taste different ethnic foods long before modern food trucks came along.
JANE ZIEGELMAN: “You had Irish kids eating Jewish pickles. You had Italian immigrants eating Jewish potato pancakes. You had all kinds of people drinking seltzer, which was, in fact a street food. So people were eating each others’ food all the time.”
And Ms. Ziegelman says this exchange affected the street food itself.
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