DA LUMPIA LADY

FashionSISTAS!!  I did it!  This is the project I have been eating, breathing, and sleeping on for weeks.  If you check out my "intro" to this blog- in the last line, I stated that a personal dream of mine would be a lumpia food truck......

Behold- "Da Lumpia Lady" food wagon!!!  

What is lumpia?  If you follow my instagram,  I posted this mouth-watering picture of the lumpia I made for my Auntie's party a few weeks ago.

Lumpia is a thin rice paper wrapped over filling and then fried.  Typically, these are known as "egg-rolls."  Lumpia is pretty much a party in your mouth.  A taste of heaven, if you will.  The best thing you will ever eat.  Period.  

I am OBSESSED with lumpia.  My instagram name is @lumpialuva because... well, it's self explanatory.  My family would always make sure lumpia would be served at all family events- because if not, I would not go! LOL Just kidding.  But if you tell me lumpia is being served, I am there an hour early! Haha!  Anyway, it is always hard to find lumpia.  And to find GOOD lumpia.  I want lumpia fresh and fried right when I order it.  It is like french fries, only good fresh or if you wait too long to eat it- it becomes soggy.  AND you HAVE to have the right sauce with it!  That is key. Not sweet and sour or ketchup or tabasco- or whatever sauce.. it has to be the Filipino style sauce: vinegar, minced garlic, and chilli peppa!  And it can't just be vegetables inside.  If I am going to eat something DEEP FRIED- lets make it worth it! KWIM?!?! (I am not a complete health food freak, but I am aware of what I eat.  If I am going to eat something deep fried- it better be something sooo delicious that I don't mind the extra workout! LOL)

Anyway, with all that being said- my husband, who absolutely LOVES my lumpia recipe, helped propel my idea of JUST selling lumpia- into a reality.  (My husband is great.  I hope everyone has a partner who supports everything you want to do and helps you achieve your dreams!) I have always said I wanted to open a restaurant that just serves a million different types of lumpia. Just lumpia.  Plain and simple.  So we are doing it!

We figured out all the paperwork, permits, etc.. to get a lumpia food trailer going!  It was a lot of hard work.  We literally started from the bottom.  Having never opened any type of food establishment, we researched everything and got a trailer made!  

We hired an amazing builder (email me if you want his information), and he worked with our vision!  The colors are obviously my idea! LOL Don't they look familiar?? That's right- it is the color of "Tiel Boutique!"

After a few weeks of busting a$$ to get this going- we are READY!! We should be opening up next week!  Unfortunately, it is only here on Maui.  If we get bigger, I hope to open up in a city near you!  Oahu will be the next place and then the wooorrrllld!! LOL 

Where will we be at???  You know the food truck area by Costco on Maui?  That will be our PERMANENT spot!  We are shooting to be open Monday at 10am-2pm.  Follow our instagram @dalumpialady and our facebook page, "Da Lumpia Lady" to see when we will open!! 

PS- We also cater for parties.  Email us at dalumpialady@yahoo.com for more information!