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Windsor Eats new food Japanese street-food truck · Kvetch & Release

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  Hey folks for back John Leckey here on AM eight hundred CKLW. You know,
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  I love food trucks in our city. We've got some regulations that prevents
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  food trucks from being set up on our streets in a lot of our areas
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  of the city because of the business improvement associations and not allowing them there.
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  It's a debate that goes back decades. The idea of a business owner who
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  has a restaurant says, I've invested the money into brick and mortar. Why
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  should you be able to benefit off of all these people that are around here,
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  And it's like, I don't know there are public streets. But anyways,
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  that's aside from the point because I don't think we're changing any regulations anytime
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  soon. But that's not to say there aren't food trucks in Windsor. Indeed,
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  at the Windsor Eats food haul over on Erie Street, brand new food
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  truck has been set up and it looks really cool, serving up Japanese street
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  food a little bit of a pop up last night at Windsor Eats. Joining
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  me right now to discuss is the co owner of which Or Eats, Adriano
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  chotally, Adriano. I don't want to mispronounce the name of this new food
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  truck, so I will let you pronounce it first for us, so I
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  can be the one guy exactly. Well, they're your they're your clients,
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  man, I mean, that's on you. We had last night we had
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  the opening of Kiru Snack Bar, which Kiru in Japanese and I'm sure I'm
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  still not pronouncing it right means frog and their little logo is a wonderful little
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  cartoon drawn frog. But they opened up last night at our food hole and
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  on Erie Street and it was a big hit. We had a really busy
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  night. She sold out of a couple of the dishes, uh, and
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  everyone seemed extremely happy with what they had. This food truck is not what
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  I think most people would expect when they hear food truck. This is not
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  a panel van or a truck with like you know, just the big box
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  trucks. This one's really unique. It it looks like a Japanese bill thing.
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  No, absolutely, she's She took an old pop up camper and she
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  converted it. Because popular in Japan are street huts called I believe they're called
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  yatoy and they're set up, you know, all in the streets and literally
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  just pulled down. People sit at them throughout the day and night, especially
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  in the nighttime, have some eats, and then they just pull down when
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  they close. And she designed this, the owner, Valerie designed this pop
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  up camper to look just like one of those huts and it is really cute
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  and there's even seating sitting around it, so you can eat at the bar
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  or eat at the ya toy and watch her cook. So they had some
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  food options. Of course, it'd be really bad food truck if there weren't
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  food options available. So one thing that they were serving last night was a
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  yakatory. What is that? Yeah, So from what I understand, YAKATORI
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  directly translates into a grilled chicken and that's what it is, basically skewers with
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  chicken and vegetables or a whole bunch of other things. She had three different
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  options to choose from. My favorite was just the simplicity of chicken and green
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  onions that were marinated and grilled in one of her special sauces, and it
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  was absolutely delicious. A lot of the food that she's made was designed to
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  be kind of like quick snack foods or bar foods that you could have really
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  quickly with drinks. Well, and that's exactly what you're looking at, and
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  expensively as well. That's important as well, especially in this climate, looking
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  at you know, some of the food options here. They just it sounds
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  so good. Stir fried oudon noodles in a savory sauce, two different types
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  of karaate, Japanese fried chicken. Like this is not your traditional food truck.
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  No, it isn't like she's even talking about. Now, you didn't
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  hear it from me, but she does or will be having some secret menus
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  that if people, you know, if they're following her on social media,
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  won't be on the menu directly at the food hall, but you can ask
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  for it and she'll be able to make it. I don't know what those
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  items are yet, but they're going to be constantly changing, and her menu
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  is going to be constantly changing too, based off of, you know,
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  whatever she's in the mood for, or also the events that we're doing.
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  Because this weekend we're celebrating Sinco de Mayo and so on Sunday, she's actually
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  doing a Japanese mexicanfusion menu. Oh that sounds great. And yeah, as
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  you said, this is the big Sinco de Maayo Weeko weekend Windsor's biggest Sinco
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  to Mayo party we go. It's a week o. You've got a lot
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  of events that are going on here. Tell us what you can expect.
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  We do so starting today because it is going to stop raining before five o'clock
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  and it's going to be a gorgeous evening and a gorgeous weekend. We pretty
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  much have live Latin bands playing all weekend. The band we open up five.
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  The band today starts at seven o'clock and then tomorrow the live music starts
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  at two o'clock. And we'll obviously have you know, special Mexican food menus
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  happening. Kru Snackbar will be there doing your job eat food as well,
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  So if you're wanting to join in the festivities, but one Japanese food instead
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  of Mexican, you can do that. And of course you know we'll be
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  serving our margarita's left and right, which are really popular. They're really good.
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  I gotta admit that you're Also there's the Electric Avenue Jane's Walk that's taking
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  place tomorrow. Yes, thank you, because I forgot about that you have
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  to start preparing for Yeah, you should almost just open up your website and
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  take a look. There's a lot of stuff there. It's a really great
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  resource quite frankly for food and different offerings. Thank you, I'm want have
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  to look into it. So tell us about the James Walking. James Walk
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  is an awesome festival being put on by Sarah Morris here and it really takes
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  people into the community and really, you know, get to enjoy the history
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  and the culture of their city from a different viewpoint. And we decided to
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  host one of the walking tours, which are all free to do, at
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  five o'clock on Saturday that we have the Art Alley where when Denial, the
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  artist Denial did the free for all art festival here in the city. We
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  have sixteen murals all surrounding our building and on our building itself, and we're
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  going to take you out for an hour, teach you all about the artists,
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  the murals and kind of get to show people, you know, the
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  murals that are there, because a lot of people still don't know that they're
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  there. And it really is quite beautiful. You know. Last time I
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  was at your place, which admittedly was too long ago. It was after
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  all of the murals had been put up, and I think you had kept
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  me waiting, so I had just gone for a little bit of a walk
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  in the area. And it is called avoiding Johns. Yeah, well that's
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  fair. A lot of people do that. It is astounding the number of
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  murals that you have just like right around you. I don't think a lot
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  of people are aware of that, quite frankly. Yeah. No. Our
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  building itself has two massive murals covering the entire building, one by local artist
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  Denial, the other by Dirks who's another great local artist. But then all
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  through down our alleyway as part of the McDougal Street corridor, we have ones
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  that you know, tie in Windsor's black history. And then surrounding the entire
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  block, we had I believe it was ten or twelve different artists doing the
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  murals from all over the world for you know, even Logan Detroit in North
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  Carolina, California, all surrounding the building. And it is beautiful and they're
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  still they're all completely different, and it's quite like you have to see it
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  really to truly appreciate it. You can look at pictures of it online and
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  we've dubbed it the Electric Avenue art Ali just because our building used to host
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  Waffles Electric. So we're kind of doing a little nod to the history of
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  Waffles Electric, which used to be in our building for about seventy years.
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  I did not know the history there. That's so interesting. Okay. One
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  thing I got to talk about here as well, your Detroit Dive Bar tour
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  coming up on May tenth. The image that you include is of a bunch
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  of patrons going into the Two Way In. You had me be a tour
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  guide once for one of the best tour guys ever. Thank you for that.
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  It was It was a fun trip. Let me tell you. There
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  was you know, a fair amount of inebriated women who worked in the trades
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  industry, and they had a lot of fun. I had a lot of
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  fun. This Two a In, though, was such a unique experience,
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  and if you could just explain to people why it's so unique, they might
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  get a sense as to what these Detroit dive bar tours are like. Sure
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  well, Two a In is one of the one of the not the,
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  but one of the oldest bars in Detroit, possibly in all of Michigan,
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  and one of the reasons. I mean, it had so many uses from
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  being an operating bar all throughout that time, throughout prohibition, but it also
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  used to be a jail, hotel, a brothel. There were so many
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  different things that operated out of the bar as well. And the reason it's
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  called two a in is because every room has two ways to actually get in
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  or out of or at least used to have two ways to get in or
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  out of the building in case some people came looking for you, because you
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  don't want to get cornered. Absolutely. There's also not recent but this is
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  the on with the historic shotgun blast on the wall. Yes, although they
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  patched it over, which it was a little sad that they patched over the
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  shotgun holes that were on the wall outside and even you walk up to the
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  door and you ring the doorbell to get in, ring the buzzer and you
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  have to look in the camera and they unlock the door and let you in.
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  And usually as you're standing there ringing the buzzer for the shotgun, you
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  know holes in the wall right beside you, making you think about, you
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  know, second guessing whether you're going into the right establishment or not. Well,
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  how dare they go? And patch up those holes, but it doesn't
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  take away at all from the establishment or from the tours. Adriano, thanks
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  so much for coming and joining me. I really appreciate it. Oh,
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  thank you, John, I appreciate it. I have a great one.
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  Adriano Tootally is the co owner of Windsor Eats. You're gonna want to check
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  out their new food truck they've got there at the Windsor Eats Food Hall at
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  four hundred ear Street East, as well as again this weekend May third to
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  fifth, Windsor's biggest Sinko to Mayo party. Folks, I'm John Lidkey.
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