Pretty Much Sums Up My Life...

Korilla BBQ.

Everyone knows that I love food trucks, as seen in LA and here. I love the creativity of the trucks (the variety of foods, the names, the truck design, the fusion, etc), the staff and the quickness of them. So when I pass a popular truck with a short line, I just can't pass it up. The Korilla BBQ truck was sitting outside of Trader Joe's at 14th street with a short line and of course, I had to stop and get some dinner. I decided on a ribeye burrito-Ribeye of the Tiger, picked the bacon and kimchi fried rice (magical!) and when picking toppings, the guy just asked if I wanted everything left and naturally, I said yes. So I'm not too sure what toppings were on it, but I know one of their many kimchi's and Korilla sauce for sure.

The burrito is big and a good price at $8 for a meal. The ribeye (bulgogi) was tender and juicy and the rice was great...couldn't really taste the bacon to be honest though. But strangely, my favorite part of the burrito was the kimchi. Every bite I took that had the kimchi in it was amazing. I love the crunch and the sauce. I love the fusion of BBQ and Korean, it all ties together so well: the meat, rice and kimchi makes a beautiful burrito combination.

The staff is extremely nice, fun and outgoing. Definitely will hit up this truck whenever I see it again. They are also contenders in the new season of The Great Food Truck Race on Food Network. Good luck to Korilla!


Korilla's trademark and colorful truck (pictures taken with iPhone).


A great burrito with great kimchi!


Yum, can't wait to try more variations-the bowls, tacos...

Secrets of a Broke, Tired Young Adult.

Living in an expensive like New York can be hard. Budgeting and not being able to buy everything I want is a hard task since most of my paycheck goes to rent. Unfortunately, I have a soft spot that makes me think it's okay to spend an absurd amount of money on groceries (...and clothes). I love going to the grocery store (Trader Joe's and Whole Foods for me, I'm lucky I'm close to both) and after a stressful day at work, all I look forward to is making dinner which is rare for someone my age with so much going on. Plus, it's so easy to eat out everyday/night. My co-workers eat lunch out everyday and I don't know how they can afford it! But they always ask what kind of "gourmet" lunch I brought today :).

So even though I spend so much money on groceries, I still buy easy and fast food. I know I've already posted about making my favorite comfort food fried rice, but this time it's in my hands where I didn't have already made rice by my mom and a refrigerator full of food. I actually made a better version last night with shrimp, but didn't take pictures.

So this is fried rice, the poor and tired girl's version.


1. Microwavable brown rice, stir fry packaged veggies, heat and serve chicken, egg and baby spinach. As you can see, I use the easiest route possible. No time to make rice and chicken and not enough money to buy a bunch of vegetables individually. P.S. this is the only counter space in our tiny, tiny kitchen. Gotta love it.


2. Chopped up the vegetables into smaller pieces. Zucchini, carrots, red onions, butternut squash.


3. Microwavable rice is magical. Two servings.


4. Add the egg, spinach and chicken. And yay a great, comfortable meal with leftovers for lunch at work.

And there goes one recipe that I will be living off of for probably my whole love. Cheap and easy is what I need in my life right now.

Summer Bucket List.

Living in New York can be quite stressful. Not only is this a fast-paced city with thousands of people, but the amount of restaurants and food to try here makes decisions and pressures of trying all of it stressful (life is so hard! ha). Some people may not care, but this is something that stresses me out! I have a list of restaurants I want to eat at from reading reviews in magazines, blogs and through word of mouth.

A big one for the summer was finding the Coolhaus truck to get an ice cream sandwich. I have a current obsession with ice cream, gelato and froyo, so of course I wanted to try one of the known ice cream trucks in this city. Their philosophy is all-natural, handmade and organic ice cream. I hadn't seen the truck anywhere, but one day I was walking home from work and randomly saw the Coolhaus truck in the most awkward place, but that was fine for me!

It was such a hard decision to pick my cookie and ice cream combo. There are so many great choices, but I decided on red velvet cookie with dirty mint chip ice cream. I asked the worker if it was a weird combo and she said that it's actually kind of popular! The sandwich comes with an edible wrapper, which is awesome because the ice cream drips onto the wrapper and you can still eat it (plus they are going green). The sandwich was awesome. I LOVED the ice cream. You can taste the natural-ness of the ice cream and the mint instead of the usual weirdly florescent green mint. The little chocolate chips were a great addition to the texture. The cookie was good too, but the ice cream was the star because of their homemade philosophy. I definitely want to hit up the truck again this summer and try out all the other combinations!


An easy to read menu, but so many hard choices.


Red velvet cookie with dirty mint chip ice cream.


Decently sized, I was pretty full after. Love the edible wrapper!

So now that I have crossed Coolhaus off my summer ice cream list, I have many more ice cream and gelato places to go! This is going to be one cool and fattening summer!