Street Food: USA

I don't think this series knows what it wants to be. It weirdly transitions from food trucks and places to eat to personal stories and struggles of people in food trucks. What the heck is this that I'm watching? I was expecting a fun light-hearted show about food and street food and new places to eat, what I got was a documentary about sons with daddy issues.

Nothing spectacular with this series. Nothing that hasn't already been done before. I remember seeing a few of the places that were featured on Somebody Feed Phil. The different foods were good and so were the people that were featured. They could have gone to different cities though instead of the same ones. Just an average series. If you like to watch food shows there are better ones streaming now on Netflix.

Such a great series that I binged it all in one evening which is easy as each episode is only 30 minutes long. Street Food: USA, contains people who love food and who love selling and sharing their food with their communities. The food they make is like sermons of love that you eat to get the spiritual message of family, service, passion and identity. These are the culturally diverse people that make up the melting pot that is the USA. These are people who have become icons in their community because of their excellence and ability to hustle. Each episode focuses on a different US city, Los Angeles, Portland, New York, New Orleans, Oahu, and Miami. And this is food that I could almost smell and taste. And though I would try it all, and these are all great cities, Portland appeared to be the place of true invention and experimentation in presenting everything from Vegan dishes (like Vegan Pork Belly) to pork and beef BBQ. And while the food is all great, it is the stories of the different people involved in the food that makes this series magical.

Viewed on Netflix. Reviewed July 2022.

I love street food, and I appreciate this show's effort to bring the stories of the cultures that exist behind the cuisines. But I couldn't help but notice the amounts of styrofoam and plastic that come out of these food trucks. Kind of wish the documentarians had been more prone to offer more publicity to folks who are thinking about environmental impacts too.

This series is not really focused on the food. It's more about depressing life stories. I was hoping to learn about how they started in the the food truck business and how to do it successfully.