{"id":121878,"date":"2025-01-28T15:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/?p=121878"},"modified":"2025-01-29T14:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T22:28:18","slug":"japanese-style-shokakko-food-truck-serves-up-unique-dishes-in-sonoma-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonomamag.com\/japanese-style-shokakko-food-truck-serves-up-unique-dishes-in-sonoma-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese-Style Shokakko Food Truck Serves up Unique Dishes in Sonoma County"},"content":{"rendered":"

What happens when you merge crab Rangoon and mozzarella sticks?<\/p>\n

A fantastical Franken-croquette stuffed with gooey cheese, dots of artificial crab and cream cheese enrobed in a crispy crust. It’s over-the-top like a hot fudge sundae with extra whipped cream \u2014 too much, but never enough.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also how a trio of fine dining chefs have put their fledgling food truck, Shokakko, on the radar of Sonoma County foodies.<\/p>\n

That, and their loaded fries with Spam.<\/p>\n

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Crab and Cheese Croquettes from Shokakko, an Asian street food truck, on their regular Thursday night visit, Jan. 23, 2025, at Old Caz Beer in Rohnert Park. (John Burgess \/ The Press Democrat)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kamikaze Fries with Mae Ploy mayo, Gochujang glaze, scallions and furikake with crispy cubes of fried spam from Shokakko, an Asian street food truck. Photographed on their regular Thursday night visit, Jan. 23, 2025, at Old Caz Beer in Rohnert Park. (John Burgess \/ The Press Democrat)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“It’s the things we liked eating on our days off. The stuff we couldn’t find in Sonoma County,” said chef Elijah Trujillo of the food trailer he cofounded with his partner Kayla Hendrix and friend Kazuya “Kaz” Makishima in August 2024.<\/p>\n

Tired of fine dining foams and tweezers, this merry band of young chefs drew inspiration from the late-night yatai food stalls in Japan that sell ramen, fish cakes and skewers of grilled chicken. The trio uses highbrow culinary skills to create cream-filled fruit sandwiches, skyscraper-sized fried chicken sandwiches, pork katsu fries and husky crab and cheese-filled croquettes.<\/p>\n

Shokakko, which means small but certain happiness in Japanese, is all about salty, sweet, creamy, spicy, hot mess dishes that go better with a pint of IPA than an oaky Cabernet.<\/p>\n

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