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Food trucks, bikes and now, a trailer

Natascha Mirosch

Hawker style ... Jay Holland with his soon-to-be-launched street food trailer.
Hawker style ... Jay Holland with his soon-to-be-launched street food trailer.Supplied

You wait ages for a bus, and then three come at once. It seems it's the same with street food. A year ago, Brisbane had none, now we have Harold Fleming's popular The Bun Mobile, Street Food Australia trialling food bikes, and the recently launched The Wandering Elephant, hawking Asian treats. What's next?

A street food trailer, of course.

Within the next eight weeks, 'Wing n It' will launch, selling, as the name suggests, chicken wings plus other American delicacies.

The street food trailer's owner is Jay Holland, head chef at New Farm's Little Larder.

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"I love what I do, but I only work days and there's only so long you can excited about cooking eggs," Holland says.

"We put on an American night at Little Larder recently for some friends and it was a huge success. It got me thinking - why didn't we do something ourselves. American food is huge right now, so it seemed a good choice."

Holland is now the proud owner of a two tonne, five metre long trailer, bought second hand from a business that used it to sell food at fairs.

"I actually have a truck licence for up to 8 tonnes, so the plan is to hire a truck to transport it around," he says.

Holland says with council support, he hopes to be up and running within the next two months.

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"I'll just do two or three nights a week - I'm thinking that I'll stick to the Milton/Paddington/Bardon area, but I also have an interest in bikes and tattoos, so I'd like to do bike and tattoo shows too."

In addition to chicken wings, which will come five different ways, Holland says he'll be offering chilli cheese fries and onion rings as well as some "over the top American soft drinks" like grape soda and Dr Peppers.

Stay tuned for more.

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