Explore Caribbean Food with The Evil Jerk Cart Lady

 Well I started Evil Jerk Cart because my family's from the Caribbean and there's no Caribbean food in the city.

So I used to make it when I was homesick, and then I started making it for parties, and then I kind of figured 'well, let me see if I can take it to the street and see if anybody's interested.'

It's been great. I've been doing it for 5 months. It's nice to share my culture with everyone...the food...and just enjoy the San Francisco street culture.

Food and Wine Maven: And tell us what you have today...you have the jerk chicken?
EvilJerkCart: Yes, I have jerk chicken. I always have coconut rice and peas. I have an Ital vegan stew. There are always vegan options. I also have some eschoviche fish, which is like a fried tilapia with seasonings, onions, peppers, and some scotch bonnets so it has a nice kick to it.

Food and Wine Maven: Thank you so much!
EvilJerkCart: Sure.

Interview with the Man Behind the Adobo Hobo Food Cart

How ya doin', I'm Jason Rotairo, the Adobo Hobo and I have a San Francisco street food cart.

I serve Filipino food. It's mainly chicken adobo over rice and I also serve sisig tacos.

I started doin' the cart...My first night out was August 1st and I started doin' the cart because some friends came home one day and I was in the kitchen cookin'. They came home from visiting the creme brulee cart and encouraged me to get out here and get something going `cause I'm the cook of the household. So that's what I did, I got it started, and about 7-8 months later, still going strong.

So, originally I just started it to try it out, have some fun with it, but it's actually turning out to be a lot of fun for me and pretty successful so I'm going to keep it goin' and hopefully grow it into something else.

Food and Wine Maven: How many nights a week are you out?
JR: I'm usually out about three or four nights a week...and it's not just nights, I go out at lunchtime also. A lot of times, I'm at South Park for the lunchtime crowd over there.

Food and Wine Maven: Mmm. I loved your tacos tonight. They were killer.
JR: They were killer? Are you the one I'm going to teach?
Food and Wine Maven: Yes.
JR: OK. Let's do it.
Food and Wine Maven: Thank you.
JR: Thank you.

Food and Wine Mavens caught on NBC Bay Area News

Head Maven and friends were caught on camera by NBC News at the SF Food Cart Party celebrating significant anniversaries for food cart operations in the city.

We really enjoyed the Creme Brulee Man's lemon blueberry flavor, Magic Curry Man, Adobo Hobo's sisig tacos, talking to Evil Jerk Cart's beautiful Lisette, the Shanghai lumpia from the cute guys of Lumpia Cart, and even some fire dancing. Next time, we'll come even hungrier because there was lots of great food.

I'll post the pics and videos of the food vendors shortly but in the meantime,

enjoy the highlights video below!