Kogi BBQ is a cult taco truck specialising in Korean-Mexican fusion, appearing at various car parks around the Los Angeles metropolitan district, the locations of which are communicated via Twitter. This type of hype results in two-hour queues at the advertised locations, I'd heard. They were due to be in my manor tonight from 10pm to 2am, at the Brig car park on Abbot Kinney, so I rode down there with 10 mins to spare to beat the queues.
10.15, no sign of the truck.
10.30, one of the other people waiting at the Brig twittered Kogi and received the reply the truck would be there at by 11. At 10.45 they arrived, and a long queue formed quickly out of nowhere. Amid bad jokes about camel toes, and the unfunny teasing/ganging up on an Austrian girl - 'it was US commercialism that propped up your economy for like 50 years, you guys invented bad chocolate and wooden shoes, dude' - there was a lot of grumbling about the delay - an hour's wait in a car park, fair enough, but most of the complaints were more about how uncivilised it was to stand in line for food at all.
'It's, like, exactly like Russia in the 80s'
'Dude, at least the Russians knew what they were standing in line for'
What we were standing in line for were delicious $2 tacos, stuffed with kimchi and korean barbeque marinated meat, and garnished with sesame-chilli salsa. I had 4. Two short-rib tacos, one pork and one korean chicken, wrapped in foil and biked back swifty to Wave Crest Ave. They were pretty amazing, and just the right side of not-enough to make me contemplate riding back up Abbot Kinney and getting back in line, if I could take another hour of American post-pub banalities.
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