Cleveland is growing on me! After visiting the West Side Market and being thoroughly overwhelmed by it, I decided Cleveland has some promise. I am thankful for my car, although I would rather live in a place where I didn't need to drive (ahem, Chicago). In my opinion the Chicago train system is far better than the buses here. Although I have never yet been late to class because my bus showed up late, I still find buses a more stressful means of transportation. And while I know there are big draw-backs to the El, I always lived near a train stop, and I was never in a hurry.
Thanks to an email from CIM's associate dean this week, I found out that Cleveland has food trucks and they come to University Circle every now and then. You'd think that food on wheels would make us lazy. But I like to think of it as food that meets you halfway. You have to find out where the truck will be and track it down, but it also comes to you. And because it's not around all the time, you don't get stuck in routines eating the same lunch everyday.
On Tuesday I had a some Massamun curry from Umami Moto and a delicious Thai peanut/BBQ pulled pork sandwich from StrEat on Wednesday. I ate my lunch at "the lagoon," which is probably one of the prettier parts of Cleveland. I think they call it a lagoon because it's somewhere in between pond and swamp, with lots of ducks and geese. There's even a very ugly duck.
These food trucks provide affordable, fast, quality food to the University Circle area. I would happily replace my lunch latte with real food if it's worth it. I hope they keep coming back!
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