Burgers from this food truck in Lahore are an unexpected delight
The food truck industry is far from established here in our part of the world.
In recent years in Lahore, a handful of food trucks started out but merely a couple could survive. Though an inspired version of this popular American trend has somehow managed to hold on in the city in the form of desi Chinese being sold out of Suzuki vans. The latest entrant to try his luck in this business is Khalid Sulman with his food truck called ‘Eat Me’.
Barely two months old, this yellow illuminated truck was initially parked on M.M. Alam Road but has now moved to the adjacent Mahmood Ali Kasuri Road where it intends to stay for at least a couple of months to get noticed and develop a clientele.
The phrase ‘L.A. to Lahore’ inscribed right under the logo on the truck stares at you and you wonder if this is also one of the many foreign food chains. But no! The phrase refers to Sulman’s two-week apprenticeship at a food truck in Los Angeles from where he got the idea of the pulled-meat burgers he’s selling.
Currently offering a humble selection of five kinds of burgers, Sulman plans to not just expand the menu, but also make the food truck mobile.