The Adobo Hobo

Adobo Hobo on the Radio

2010-06-30T16:55:00.000-07:00

Wanna hear the interview on APEX Express 94.1FM with Adobo Hobo, Socola Chocolatier, and Sweedeedee Jerky?

Here it is: http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/62119

Forward to 20:25 to hear the magic.

The Chicken Adobo Taco

2010-06-21T12:21:00.000-07:00

Chicken Adobo Tacos

The aerial shot

Introducing the ALL NEW Chicken Adobo Taco featuring Adobo Hobo's famous chicken adobo topped with crema and a reduction of Adobo Hobo's adobo sauce.

Keep following us on Twitter to find out when you can get some next!

Yum.

The Great Potato Sack Race of 2010

2010-06-14T09:44:00.000-07:00

On your marks, get set...

Go Good Foods!

This Sunday was The 1st Great Potato Sack Race in Precita Park benefitting the Beacon Culinary Project.

Food carts and foodies were all in attendance and participation. Potato themed dishes and potato sack racing brought to you by:
Sweet Constructions
SF Delicious
Soul Cocina
Gumbo Cart
Adobo Hobo
Lumpia Cart
Dezy's Drinks
Luscious Liquids
Good Foods Catering
Mali Num Num
Pot Pie Junkie

Quote of the race, "Pulled Pork!" as Dontaye of Good Foods galliantly hops towards the finish line.

Lesson learned from the day's event: "Food people aren't in the best shape..."

Sig and Leila's Engagement Luau

2010-06-06T01:34:00.000-07:00

This Saturday we catered an awesome engagement luau in Walnut Creek on a beautiful (and finally) sunny summer day.

Congrats to the couple Sig and Leila.

For private catering inquiries, please email adobohobo@gmail.com.

Pics after the jump.

I think we might have found our buddy Little Jon.

World famous Mai Tai's from The Waikiki.

Polynesian Dancers

Getting lined up for grub.

The newly engaged couple.

Oakland Has Street Food Too.

2010-06-06T01:20:00.000-07:00

Check out some of Oakland's Street Cart Scene

That's right. Bacon S'mores

MMMMMM. Bacon.

Hella Vegan

"That's That!"

The Wurst Of Times

#OutsideIn4 Madness @heartwine Last Night (Thanks to @SoulCocina & @KitchenetteSF)

2010-04-26T10:27:00.000-07:00

Last night was the highly anticipated street food event Outside In #4: Vino x Street Food at Heart Wine Bar in SF.

It was freakin' B-A-N-A-N-A-S. There was a line out the door all the way down Valencia. I heard it was an hour or so wait just to get in. We did try to warn you all that it was going to be bat shit crazy! Via Twitter yesterday:

"Word on da streets is #OutsideIn4 is gonna b bananas. Get there early or don't say we didn't warn you."

The line didn't calm down until about 8PM, too bad we completely sold out by 7. I think I gave out 2 bowls of remnants to some folks who waited just to try some of that adobo goodness.

For all of you who did try get some adobo, thank you. For all of you who missed out, we'll be out again this week so don't worry. I hope that everyone got to at least try some of the other food that was there because we didn't.

Word on the streetz (notice the "Z" signifying the gangsta-ism) is that Good Foods had some pork belly sliders that would make you slap yo mama and Kitchenette was bringin some madness with their gravy covered fries. We did get some of that Soul Cocina bhel puri that made me think "Jai Ho" after every bite, bangin' Shanghai lumpias from the Filipino Don Juan Lumpia Cart, and the always grubbin' Gumbo Cart gumbo. Thanks for the food. Part of the perks of being in the street cart biz is the free grub.

Much love to Soul Cocina, Kitchenette SF, Heart, and all of you who attended and made Outside In #4 another event to remember.

Also, MUCH PROPS to Tamara Palmer for playing Akinyele's "Put It In Your Mouth" during her set...

So keep your eyes peeled and stay tuned for the next Outside In, Outside In #5.

A few more pics after the jump:

The calm before the storm...

Adobo paired up with 2005 Le P'tit Paysan

The line is forming.

The Adobo Hobo Nation awaits...

Get your grub on.

Just incase you don't know... (Courtesy of YouTube)

Foodies Celebrate 365 Days of Food Carts

2010-03-08T10:55:00.000-08:00

Look who made it as the screen cap!

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video.

Check out entire segment from NBC Bay Area

Interview with the Man Behind the Adobo Hobo Food Cart

2010-03-08T10:47:00.000-08:00

Check out the interview from Food and Wine Mavens.

Dirty Dishes: Beats and Eats

2010-02-25T01:09:00.000-08:00

Feb. 25th, 2010 from 9PM til 2AM.

Tonight marks the inagural "Dirty Dishes 001", a blend of hot beats and tasty eats.

Come by The Lookout in the Castro for your fix of Adobo Hobo. The menu for the night will include:

Chicken Adobo over Rice
Veggie Adobo over Rice
Pork Sisig Tacos
Filipino Pork Menudo (OUR BRAND NEW DISH - Limited time only.)

We'll also be joined by our homie the Gumbo Cart and Mission Mini Cupcakes.

They plan to have this event once a month featuring a rotating group of street carts so follow them on Twitter to get the deets.

Check out all the buzz that the event has been getting:

NY Times
SFWeekly
Tablehopper
Facebook

You guys better be there.

Official Site

What Would Brian Boitano Do?

2010-02-01T10:16:00.000-08:00

Picture Courtesy of Food Network

Olympic gold medalist, Food Network star, and real life super-hero, Brian Boitano came by Precita Park this weekend to film an episode of his Food Network show "What Would Brian Boitano Make?".

The inspiration of the show is the SF Street Cart scene. Some of your favorite SF Street Carts were out this Sunday to feed Brian, hundreds of foodies, and get on Food Network. The Creme Brulee Guy, Magic Curry Cart, Sexy Soup Lady, Soul Cocina, Lumpia Cart, Pizza Hacker, Gumbo Cart, Wholesome Bakery, Smitten Ice Cream, Evil Jerk Cart, Sweet Constructions, The Chai Cart, and yours truly Adobo Hobo were all together on a beautiful (FINALLY) day in the park.

Brian came by camera crew filming. He went along trying the different food carts and word on the street (from fellow Twitter follower b_frank) "When I asked Brian, he said the Adobo was one of his favorites." Woot woot!

Thanks for Food Network, Brian Boitano, and all the peeps who came out to make it a fun event.

Pics from the event under the cut.

Crazy amount of peeps at Precita

Brian checking out the Adobo Hobo

Jay pointing to where the magic happens

Tada!

Nom nom nom

Thanks to Amy for being an awesome photog.

Yelp! Goes Gaga for @AdoboHobo

2010-01-23T11:01:00.000-08:00

Photos Courtesy of Yelp.com

Yelpers are crazy party-ers. We want to thank Ligaya T. for the invite to an awesome YEE (Yelp! Elite Event) and thank all the Yelpers out there for coming out and all the great feedback.

Sorry for running out of utensils but much props to everyone who got MacGuyver (or MacGruber) on it out there and made chopsticks out of straws and spoons out of shot glasses. Bigger props to those who went Filipino style and got their hands all up in the adobo!

MacGruber!

Some Yelpers getting gansta with it and eating adobo with their hands while in an asian squat position.

Check out Jay's review of the party and my review on Yelp! along with all the other Yelp attendees.

Thanks again Yelp!

The Return of #OutsideIn @LittleSkillet

2009-12-21T21:05:00.000-08:00

For all of you who missed the first Outside In at Baobab Village here's what you missed...

Video courtesy of Mixsterious

You don't want to miss the next Outside In tomorrow night at Little Skillet, 330 Ritch St. SF, CA from 6PM onwards. Street food and world famous DJ's all to benefit Casa De Las Madres and St. Anthony Foundation.

The Debut of the Sisig Taco

2009-12-14T13:43:00.000-08:00

Here it goes!

Sisig Taco

Gumbo Man smiles after his first bite.

Yesterday marked the debut of the newest addition to the Adobo Hobo menu, the sisig taco at The Temple Lounge in San Jose for the shop.swap.boogie holiday trunk show.

The tacos flew off the shelves (well, actually off the cart) and sold out within half an hour.

Keep following us for the next outing of the sisig taco.

We Eating: Street Food

2009-11-28T11:22:00.000-08:00

Check out the newest episode of We Eating starring The We Eating Crew Gus and Big Jon with special guest SFoodie blogger Tamara Palmer getting their street grub on at the Call to Flavor Benefit for St. Anthony Foundation at Precita Park.

Big-ups to the We Eating Crew.

Street Food Vids Hit The Internets via @Mixsterious

2009-10-17T11:59:00.000-07:00

The internet's newest meme, street food. Tron Guy and Numa Numa, move over! Chocolate Rain ain't got nothing on Ah Nom Nom.

Adobo Hobo

Pizza Hacker

Wholesome Bakery

Wholesome Bakery Part 2

Gumbo Cart

The Life Changing, "Cupcaking With Mandy"

Linda St. Street Food Revival Night

2009-10-13T17:03:00.000-07:00

Last Friday night was the revival of the Linda St. Street Cart Party, only this time there was a lot more street carts. The OG's were in attendance such as:

as well some brand new debuting carts:

Baklava Man (obviously serving baklava)
Barcelona Labona (serving Spanish tortillas)
and The Master Flan (obviously serving flan as well as Filipino banana lumpias, turon)

This night definitely showed the impact of the SF street cart explosion. Almost 20 carts were in attendance which is almost double the amount from the Moustache Party Night in August and probably quadruple what the original Linda St. gatherings were used to.

You know it's a party when the cops come by! See you guys at the next one.

Cupcakin' With Mandy feat. The Cupcake Sandwich

2009-10-12T16:07:00.000-07:00

Watch and learn about the "cupcake sandwich" technique. It was taught to us by a wise man that we met catering an anniversary party in Stern Grove last month. That guy, whoever he is, definitely deserves a Nobel.

Trust me, this will change your life.

Vid courtesy of Mixsterious for Ah Nom Nom. Special Guest Stars: The We Eating Crew, Wholesome Bakery, and Ed (me in the background).

Call To Flavor at Precita Park

2009-09-28T01:12:00.000-07:00

Today we attended "Call To Flavor" a benefit for The St. Anthony Foundation put together by Soul Cocina.

All of your favorite street food carts were in attendance and there to raise money for a good cause. It ended up to be a successful event and we raised a lot of money for the foundation.

Thanks to all who came and made it successful.

More pics after the cut.

Setting up shop.

Lumpia Cart

The debut of Smitten Ice Cream. Check out the homemade ice cream machine.

Art and Carts: 1AM Gallery

2009-09-28T00:37:00.000-07:00

This Friday was SHOPWARS at 1AM Gallery and Adobo Hobo, Wholesome Bakery, and Brazilian Bites were there to celebrate the show.

It was a great event and an even better afterparty. Kegstands and Flip Cup.

Much thanks to the 1AM crew for throwin' an awesome show and a great afterparty.

More pics of the event after the cut.

Afterparty game of "Flip Cup".

Our Homey @soulcocina in SFWeekly.

2009-09-25T12:46:00.000-07:00

Photo Courtesy of Soul Cocina/SFWeekly

Our homey Soul Cocina gets interviewed by SFoodie in SFWeekly.

I told you he's a culinary nut!

Read it here: http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2009/09/soul_cocinas_roger_feeley_the.php

Lunchtime in SOMA

2009-09-25T10:42:00.000-07:00

Adobo Hobo served up lunch in the SOMA at South Park yesterday along with the Gumbo Man, Brazilian Bites, Sweet Cart, and Wholesome Bakery.

It was an awesome turnout in a beautiful locale with a lot of hungry business folks. This might have to become more of a regular occurence so to the people working in the SOMA, stay tuned!

Thanks again to everyone who came.

Call To Flavor

2009-09-22T23:46:00.000-07:00

Street carts unite for a good cause this Sunday from Noon - 3pm hosted by our favorite culinary nut, Soul Cocina.

Come for some great street food and an even better cause!

Some of your favorite street food carts will be serving up the goodness.

Bacon Potato Chips
Toasty Melts
The Gumbo Man
Adobo Hobo
Pizza Hacker
Bike Basket Pies
Wholesome Bakery
Gobba Gobba Hey
The Sweet Cart
Lumpia Cart
Urban Nectar
Magic Curry Cart
& Soul Cocina

Plus Yoga For Kids at 1pm.

Aqui by Yummy Melon for iPhone

2009-09-17T10:43:00.000-07:00

Photo courtesy of Yummy Melon Software via Aqui

Our homey Yummy Melon has created an awesome iPhone app that easily allows you to tweet or blog your exact location. Keyword is easily.

Adobo Hobo uses the app to tweet our locations so that the Adobo Hobo fans can easily find us.

You can download it free at the iPhone App Store for a limited time.

Check it out.

I hear from the source that the new update is gonna be sweet.

Check out Yummy Melon Software on Twitter or at http://www.yummymelon.com/.

SFBC Bike-In Movie Night and Ed Man Chew's B-Day.

2009-09-17T00:50:00.000-07:00

Triplets of Belleville and hella street food carts. I think that almost, if not every, street food cart was in attendance tonight. From OG's to the new kids.

You can really see the growth of the street food cart scene between the last two Bike-In Movie events. Street cart attendance had to have tripled in the span of the month between movies. It's awesome to see the burgeoning street food cart scene as well as be part of it. It was a great event and it was great to see everybody (venders and eaters) tonight.

Tonight, we finally debuted the long awaited and hugely anticipated "Vegan" adobo. It came across as a huge success and we received really good feedback about it. Tonight's vegan adobo featured long beans, bok choy, okra, and potatoes along with the secret Adobo Hobo adobo sauce. Hopefully it can remain as another option for us.

If you want to see more Bike-In Movie events, please support and join the SFBC today!

Vegetarians and Vegans Prepare to Have Your Minds Blown!

2009-09-15T16:24:00.000-07:00

There will be a "Special Dish" being served at the SFBC Bike-In Movie tomorrow night.

Vegetarians and vegans, prepare to be Hobo'd!

SFBC Bike-In Movie Night

2009-09-14T16:27:00.000-07:00

Setting up at the last SFBC Bike-In Movie Night while enjoying some Brazilian Bites.

The SFBC is having another Bike-In Movie Night on Wed. The last Bike-In Movie Night featured the movie "Klunkerz" and also had a Q&A session with Gary Fisher, mountain biking legend.

They will be showing The Triplets of Belleville on Wed. and it should be another awesome event featuring a lot of the other street food carts. A lot of the OG's like Creme Brulee Cart and Magic Curry Kart will be out as well as a newcomer, Adobo RollO, who will be serving up a pork adobo with a coconut based sauce.

Ride out and enjoy the movie along with some good eats.

See you there!

12 Delicious Street Food Vendors Using Twitter

2009-09-13T11:45:00.000-07:00

Check out the list. A lot of the homies are on it.

Read it: 12 Delicious Street Food Vendors Using Twitter. (courtesy of Shali's Tumbling Thoughts)

Arts and Carts

2009-09-13T01:12:00.000-07:00

Fabric8 Gallery Grand Opening

Receiver Gallery - Skinwalker by Brian Willmont Opening

Fabric8 last week and Receiver Gallery last night. What's better than food and art combined?

Last week's event, Street Art x Street Food at Fabric8 was awesome. Street food vendors Creme Brulee Cart, Soul Cocina, Gobba Gobba Hey, and us helped celebrate the Grand Opening of the Fabric8 Gallery. Lots of good food and lots of great art.

Last night, we were at the Receiver Gallery for the opening of Brian Willmont's Skinwalker. The street cart line-up consisted of Wholesome Bakery, Gumbo Cart, Brazilian Bites, and Adobo Hobo. Anthony of Anthony's Cookies even stopped by and got about 10 servings of adobo. BTW, the cookies were off the hook.

Art and food compliment each other perfectly, so you better come out the next event!

Soul Cocina

2009-09-12T14:10:00.000-07:00

Check out our homey Soul Cocina. He's a culinary nut!

http://www.soulcocina.com or Soul Cocina on Twitter

8Asians.com - 8 Questions for The Adobo Hobo

2009-09-12T13:55:00.001-07:00

8Asians.com asks 8 questions to Adobo Hobo.

1. “The Adobo Hobo?” How did that come about?
2. How did the whole idea of twittering the location beforehand come into play?
3. Where are you from?
4. Do you have much experience with the street food scene? Or at least, eating street food?
5. To be honest, not a lot of non-Asian people know about adobo is, or do they? Do people look at you all crazy and go “wait, isn’t that some Spanish thing?”
6. Since the Dolores Park or the Mission — where you’ve been serving food — isn’t exactly Daly City, what are some of the questions you get about the food? And have you changed your family recipe any to cater to the crazy hipsters?
7. From the business perspective: How much of this pure money business versus a hobby, versus a way to just get some Asian food up in this?
8. True or false: There’s never such thing as too much garlic.

Find the answers here at 8Asians.com: http://www.8asians.com/2009/08/07/8-questions-for-the-adobo-hobo/

California Report on Street Food Carts

2009-09-12T13:33:00.000-07:00

KQED Radio's California Report featured a segment on the San Francisco Street Food Cart scene yesterday featuring some of the homies; Sweet Cart, The Chai Cart, The Gumbo Cart, and The Pizza Hacker.

Here's the link in case you missed it: http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R909111630/d

Kevin and Joanie's 10th Anniversary

2009-09-12T13:25:00.000-07:00

Just catered a private event held at Stern Grove last night for Kevin and Joanie's 10th anniversary along with The Creme Brulee Cart, Soul Cocina, Sweet Cart, and Ichi Sushi.

What an awesome idea, Street Food Carts as catering. Genius!

The location was awesome, we were surrounded by trees under the moonlight. Good thing we had the extinguisher just in case!

Congrats again to Kevin and Joanie!

Eat Real Festival

2009-09-12T13:04:00.000-07:00

Photo Courtesy of SFGate
Photo Courtesy of Soul Cocina

Over 60,000 people in attendance and 0ver 1500+ people got a taste of Adobo Hobo at The Eat Real Festival in Oakland's Jack London Square.

Super cool event featuring street cart vendors such as The Creme Brulee Cart, Soul Cocina, The Sexy Soup Lady, Amuse Bouche, Wholesome Bakery, Gobba Gobba Hey, along with food truck vendors from around the Bay Area using sustainable ingredients.

Thanks to the Eat Real Festival crew for the awesome event.

Adobo Hobo on TV!

2009-09-12T13:02:00.000-07:00

We are on TV!

Check out the segment on TFC's (The Filipino Channel) "Balitang America"!

Moustache Party at Mission Pool

2009-09-12T12:42:00.000-07:00

8/7/2009 Moustache Street Food Party at Mission Pool!

Our first big event.

Hundreds of people at this event and Adobo Hobo sold out in less than an hour! Thanks to The Sexy Soup Lady and The Magic Curry Cart for throwing such a killer event!

Also thanks to the Eat Real Fest crew for the awesome pics!

Urban Daddy Article.

2009-09-12T11:31:00.001-07:00

UrbanDaddy.com publishes an article about Adobo Hobo!

Published August 03, 2009

Thriller From Manila
A Filipino Favorite by the Cartful

Lately, you've been gorging yourself on gourmet food served in all manner of portable devices—trucks, pushcarts, bicycles.

And maybe you've gotten a little lost, forgot what street food really tastes like.

Here as a delicious reminder of the humble art of street food is Adobo Hobo—San Francisco's first street food cart helmed by a real estate broker, serving up the ultimate in Filipino comfort food, chicken adobo, by the plateful now...

Read more: http://www.urbandaddy.com/sfo/food/6419/Adobo_Hobo_A_Filipino_Favorite_by_the_Cartful_San_Francisco_SFO_Restaurant#ixzz0Qv18s6G1

First Ever Media Write-Up!

2009-09-12T11:25:00.001-07:00

SFWeekly's SFoodie Blog write-up of Adobo Hobo's upcoming debut.

Street Food Goes Filipino This Weekend Thanks to Adobo Hobo
By John Birdsall, SFoodie Editor in Pavement Cuisine
Friday, Jul. 31 2009 @ 3:05PM

Silly us. Just when we suggested that street vendors might be beginning to exhaust cooking genres comes Adobo Hobo, hawker of Filipino adobo. Turns out the Hobo's named Jason, a guy in real estate who learned the ins and outs of the dish from his mom (duh). He's making his maiden cart voyage in the Mission this weekend -- follow along on Twitter to find out where and when...

Read more: http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2009/07/street_food_goes_filipino_this.php

Adobo Hobo Grand Opening

2009-09-12T11:08:00.000-07:00

The debut of Adobo Hobo started at Dolores Park Movie Night featuring "16 Candles". 8/1/2009, it seemed so long ago.

Welcome to the official Adobo Hobo blog.

2009-09-12T11:05:00.000-07:00

We've decided to create a blog about our adventures so here it is. Enjoy!