ottawa foodies

New this year, they offered Meat and Chips. This is a fun and tasty hybrid of Vietnamese and Canadian fast foods. It's either a Vietnamese grilled chicken with rice dish, but with fries instead of rice and gravy instead of fish sauce... or it's a poutine with meat instead of cheese, and a side salad.

Either way, it's a nice change from the usual!

I am not sure of the official name but I had the vermicelli with beef. It comes with 2 spring rolls, fish sauce and I got a little hot sauce. There were lots of bean sprouts and greens which I like. There was a good hint of lemongrass in the beef but as mentioned no mint with the spring rolls. The serving was very generous, service was fast and friendly and you can order ahead. The poutine and dogs going out ahead of my order looked good too.

They are open again for 2013!

They offer the usual chip truck candidates like chips, poutine, hamburgers, as well as cool Asian things like spring rolls (meat, shrimp, or veg), vermicelli (Bun), and pad thai (choice of meat or veg).

Glad to see them up and running again this year! I paid an extra $2 to increase my meat (beef AND chicken). The meal was tasty as I remembered from last season and the lady greeted me with a friendly "long time no see" that made me feel welcome. :-)

I'm thrilled that Ottawa is finally approving more interesting food trucks closer to the city core, but for now Stittsville has one of the best fast food options in town!

No pictures, but had the same as FF, except with pork. It was very good. Spring rolls were still crisp after drive back to the office. I would love it if the Bun had some mint, but otherwise this was tasty version. Also would be good to have some chili garlic sauce but I didn't ask and I'm not sure if it is available. The prices have gone up a bit, its now $8.25.

It is with a little tear of joy that I connect Bún Thịt Nướng to a food truck vendor entry. :-)

This wonderful little tray of tasty, fast (~10 minutes) takeout convenience food cost $7.75, tax in. Choice of chicken, beef, or pork.

The quality was easily restaurant level. Better than food court fare for sure. I asked for an honest recommendation for chicken or beef, and was offered a half-half taste of each. The chicken is excellent but the beef is good too. I've definitely had worse versions of each in restaurants.

The "fish sauce" (nuoc cham) was nice and salty but was very clear and had no real fishy taste, so maybe they don't put "fish sauce" (nuoc mam) in it?

The veggies were fresh and a nice accompaniment to the meal.

Folks, this is how fast food should look!!

Enjoyed the Rice with Grilled Beef immensely at lunch today. There's enough perfect, shiny rice in there to satisfy a big hunger. The amazing thing is that this food truck was around last year, long before Ottawa's recent food truck push.

The Rice with Grilled Chicken was spectacular. For $7.95 tax-in, eating this wonderful, tasty, real food over a fast food burger and fries is a no-brainer.

I think this is actually tastier than the Bún Thịt Nướng, although I do miss the spring rolls.

This picture is from May 2013. The poutine was very good--the potatoes being of especially great quality. Recommended if for some reason you don't want the Vietnamese food here. :P