Is that it? Miami Food Trucks

So my wife and I decide to go to a food truck gathering on Saturday night at a local car dealership.  There will be 20 food trucks on site selling their different Gourmet items.  Let's see if I can remember what was there without naming names.  There was a Dominican truck which didn't look all that wonderful to me, but I'm not a mayo,meat, cheese and sauce drenched french fry eater.  Though the truck was packed with people eating at the two fold out tables and chairs the cart graciously provided.  There was an Argentinian Truck with grilled meats also with two tables nearby.  Really none of the other food trucks at the event provided the type of tables and chairs that would be a boon to their respective food truck business.  I guess that's not the way the food truck thing usually goes down.  People bring their own tables, chairs, beverages, etc. and enjoy themselves.  Ok, so back to the rundown there were also two Mediterranean style trucks with felafel,  hummus, Greek and Jerusalem salads and the like.  There was one dessert truck which was packed.  There was an Asian fusion truck.  It served a variety of different dishes from Indonesia, Southeast Asia and their own creations.  We got some food from said truck and really didn't think a lot of it.  The braised Southeast Asian beef dish was good with a nice touch of coconut milk but the fried rice was insanely salty and too moist for my taste.  The side of green papaya salad was one of the worst versions I've ever eaten.  It had no taste, hadn't been allowed to sit long enough to weep and become the salad they want to serve.  It needed more lime juice, sugar, salt, fish sauce, salt, pepper, siracha sauce, etc.  It's really too bad because for $8 I thought it was a little skimpy.  I'm in the business and he's making good money on that dish.  It should be cheaper in my humble opinion.  My wife and I had a fish taco, the aforementioned beef dinner box, a glass of excellent ginger, basil?, limeade, Colombian style ceviche and a coke.  I know of restaurants that I can get equally or better tasting food and much more of it for a lot less money.  If they want to charge mid level money for items they better be good.  It would also be nice if they came up with tasting plates for the kind of events that I attended.  Signage is another big problem.  Make everything larger so we can read it from farther away.  If you are going to put a sign on the ground or next to the truck definitely make the print much larger.  I will say that the ceviche we ate was excellent and the soup I tried at that truck was very good.  The fish taco was a fish taco.  It's cool, but I can get em all over the place locally that are equally good.  There was nothing too them that put them over the top and made me HAVE to get another.  That's what I was hoping for as opposed to another fish taco stand.  Yes they were perfectly done.  If I was at the beach hungry and that truck pulled up I would love to have them, but at the food truck event I want a salsa or something on top that simply makes me get another one as soon as I finish the first.    We ran out of room and money for dessert which was mid level priced at around $4 an item.  The line was long but that doesn't mean anything since they were the only truck that was dessert only.  I also think more salads, cold items that cool you down in the heat would be a good idea.  I was stunned that there wasn't a noodle shop on wheels of any kind Italian, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese or other.  There was surely room for more adventurous trucks and better value.   There wasn't a Sushi truck on wheels.  Why, since god knows it's popular enough.  Wish I was crazy enough to want to get into the food truck business, but that business has issues that are all it's own. I sort of look forward to my next adventure in food truck eating at the beginning of August.  I hope that I at least get to see some different trucks than my first adventure.  I wish all of them luck since making money out of a food truck seems like it might be rather difficult.