- You're getting your own, everybody's getting
(excited shouting)
- Coquito bread pudding you guys!
(merengue music)
- So I'm about to surprise Gadiel
he has no idea that this food truck is here.
Let's see if he's hungry.
El siempre tiene hambre.
- [Jalisa] Gadiel, are you hungry?
- Claro muchacha. Yo siempre tengo hambre.
- [Jalisa] You want some mofongo?
- Where the hell you gonna get mofongo?
- [Jalisa] Come on, come on I gotta surprise for you.
- You brought mofongo?
- [Jalisa] I got a surprise!
Ven conmigo, ven.
- It's about to be good, you're gonna love me forever!
(regaeton beat)
- [Gadiel] What did you do, I see a Puerto Rican flag!
- [Jalisa] I told you! Tada!!
- You didn't no, You bought a whole food truck?!
- [Jalisa] I bought a whole food truck, for us!
To taste food, and have lunch!
- I smell platanos.
Hey they got platanos in there, eh?
- [Jalisa] They got platanos. (laughing)
You can't go inside Gadiel coño!
(regaeton beat)
- Well we needed a Puerto Rican food truck in L.A.
Puerto Rico has such great and savory food.
And we found that there was a void in L.A.
And obviously we wanted to make sure
that Puerto Rican food was represented
in the wide spectrum of street food that is L.A.
What our truck is truly named after
and for, is the Tripleta sandwich.
The Tripleta sandwich is basically our Pan Sobao
- It has perníl inside, some people call it lechon.
But it's a roast pork.
There's also a steak and chicken, well marinated inside.
We have lettuce in it, fresh cut.
We also put potato sticks and our mayo ketchup sauce
which is also known as our triple threat sauce.
- We're ready!
Let's do this!
- Yes? - it's ready!
- Vamos, vamos!
- [Gadiel] Eso que lleva!
- Lleva como taco hoy.
- Eso! Ní tacos (laughs)
- Oh! Mira que bonito!
Look at the presentation of this, mira!
- Wow!
- Esto recuerda me chimi, right?
- Yup!
- Like when you go after the club,
you go to the food truck
y verla, 'oye, dame chimi ahí'
- I also love that it has like,
I couldn't resist the mayo-ketchup.
- (laughing) that's true.
- That to me, always makes me so happy.
- Hoy vamos comer bien.
- Bueno, salud! Coño!
- Esta verdad! Así
- Woooww!
- Huele bien sazonado.
(happy food noises)
- When you bite, you feel the softness of the bread
and then you taste the other meat.
And then you take the second bite, la papita!
Con el mayo-ketchup
- Each bite is something different.
- Yeah, yeah!
- And when you bite - it like keeps elevating
no verda? - Yeah
- And the more you get into the sandwich
the more it's like, ven mas pa'ca, ven mas pa'ca
ven mas pa'ca!
- And you know that - Eating it is so good!
Imagine this, after the club?
- Oh my God, yeah.
- Eso esta con un jugo ahí. And you're like,
yo dame una tripleta sandwich con una malta on the side
or un jugo de piña on the side or somethin'!
- Yo I'd be happy if.. - and you have it!
And then that's it you could go to sleep
and you have the best sleep ever.
- Another main thing that we have
on our truck is the mofongo.
Mofongo is smashed green plantain
with garlic and our own mix of spices
and our own Mojo that we make.
And it's truly something so flavorful.
Everything is made fresh, so when you order Mofongo
we actually advise people, that it takes a little longer.
Because it is mashed fresh to order.
It takes an extra 10 to 15 minutes
cause we fry the plantains, we mash it up.
- I'm always ready for platanos, you know?
- Lid on the bottom if you need it.
- Nah, no no no
- I'm speechless.
- Wait time out, - this came form in there?
- That's exactly what I was thinking!
(laughing)
- No way. No way!
- There's no way! You guys serve the
Mofongo like this, for real?
At all times? Naahhh
- Amen!
(merengue music)
(holy music)
- Diosito hoy me levanté, and I said bless me
and I asked you to make me, have a great Monday
and sure enough I've been blessed!
(record screeches)
- Oye! No te coma toda yo!
- Sigue rezando!
This doesn't make sense, it's so good.
- It's got the crunchiness of a chicharron
- Yeah! - Oh my God.
- Yup - its like..
- Sabes que yo - flavorful to the max!
- Like that to me is what makes Mofongo
is the flavor.
- Mhm. Sigue hablando, sí sigue.
- Like you have crunch, coño!
You have the crunchiness, you have the sazón
the lechon on top is super soft.
Everything just compliments it. Everything!
- You know, one thing about Mofongo that I hate
is when people make it with too much sazón
and sometimes it's too salty, it's too over powering.
And this is perfect.
- Okay, so we're Dominicans and we know platanos
we know Mangu, we know Mofongo a little bit.
But I feel like, I wanna get the actual Puerto Rican
stamp of approval and I wanna call on of our
Puerto Rican friends to see if the Triple Threat Truck
is really Puertorriqueño, boricua boricua!
- De verda! - let's call them!
Let's call them! Vamos, vamos, coño vamos!
- Yo estoy terminando ay
(salsa music)
- So I heard there was Mofongo here
- They had me at Tripleta, cause I haven't
had a tripleta in so long.
That's like the iconic food.
(salsa music)
- Yess! Salud - Salud!
- Oh my God, okay, I'm gonna let you know
if this is the real deal.
Okay, cause I've had experience with Tripleta before.
- Oh my God, real Pan sobao!
- They got the potato sticks!
- Pan sobao, I feel like , I don't know.
There should be angels singing.
(angelic music)
- Oh my God.
- Wow. The flavor's incredible.
Every bite is like different.
- Parate. Parate. - Parate.
- I wanna finish this thing. - Exactly!
- Cause who knows when I'm get this again
(salsa music)
- Oh my God!
- This is the thing.
This is Puerto Rican approved.
- So Gadiel, did I do good, or did I do good?
- You did amazing!
It's like, a bitter sweet moment right now.
- Cause it's over right?
- It's over. It like, I want this every day.
- I wanna eat this every day.
Like it was so good, so authentic.
The taste buds, everything like all of the flavors
in your mouth were like yo someone
that really knew what they were doing, right?
- They were doing.
- On top of the fact that look
we got it Puerto Rican approved!
- When I saw the Puerto Rican flag on the food truck
I was like, that was the happiest time I've ever been
to see a Puerto Rican flag.
De coño you know we corriendo y una vez.
No, you know I love this. Thank you guys.
Me da una abrazo a eta truck porque..
- Thank you Triple Threat truck!
You guys are amazing!
- No se vayan! No se vayan nunca!
- He gon' thank me forever for this you see I know food!
(salsa)
(laser pew)