I’d driven by the gone-to-seed red food truck on Nicholson Drive—the one with no hubcaps called La Salvadorena Pupuseria #2—dozens of times in the last few months, but hadn’t stopped yet.
A short distance from Voodoo Barbecue, Willy’s Chicken and Waffles and Atcha Bakery, the food truck seemed to round out what is becoming a small but interesting little food corridor on a thoroughfare connecting LSU to downtown. The other day, I couldn’t stand it anymore. I stopped, parked my car and walked over to find pupusas, (flat, pan-fried Salvadoran “dumplings”), being made by hand.
“Eight minutes,” one of the young women told me after I placed my order for a pork and cheese pupusa and a steak taco. “You can sit in your car if you want. It’s hot.”