Halal Food Cart — Restaurant in Charlotte

Halal Food Cart Turned My Stomach Into a GoT Final Season Plotline

Let me begin by saying I approached this Halal Food Cart with the innocent optimism of a man who simply wanted a warm, delicious plate of shawarma to remind him that the world is still a good place. Oh, how naive I was.

From the moment I unwrapped the foil—steaming, dripping with mystery sauce—I could feel something was off. The smell wasn’t bad per se, but it carried a certain foreboding, like the final note in a horror movie soundtrack right before the monster pops out of the cupboard. I took a bite, and at first, I thought, “Not bad.” But much like trusting Littlefinger, that was my first mistake.

Two bites in, and I swear I saw my ancestors shaking their heads in disappointment. Bite three triggered something deep inside me—a dormant entity that had been waiting centuries for this exact combination of undercooked meat, lava-level hot sauce, and sauce-to-rice ratio that could only be described as a culinary hate crime.

Roughly 15 minutes later, as I casually went about my day, my stomach began to issue warning tremors. A low, ominous gurgle echoed through my intestines. At first I thought, “Maybe it’s just digestion.” Oh no. That wasn’t digestion. That was summoning.

Friends, what followed was less of a bathroom break and more of a full-blown medieval siege. My bowels turned into Drogon, and my porcelain throne became King's Landing. I sat there, clutching the sides of the toilet like I was about to take off on a rocket powered by pure regret and ghost peppers. My soul left my body three times and returned only to ask, “Why, though?”

As the minutes turned to hours (or what felt like hours—time ceased to exist), I reflected on my life choices. I had trusted a cart. A cart. A man literally cooking meat with a blowtorch next to a sidewalk was the gatekeeper to my gastrointestinal demise. I had consumed something that could only be described as "radioactive curry lava." My mouth was burning, my nose was sweating, my eyes were seeing colors that don’t even exist in the visible spectrum.

It’s been three days. The trauma remains. I have lost five pounds, a relationship, and what I can only assume is part of my large intestine. I no longer trust food. I no longer trust carts. I saw a pita the other day and flinched. My toilet now has PTSD.

In conclusion: if you’re looking to purge every last bacterium from your body, violently cleanse your chakras, and maybe see the face of God through the haze of pain and regret—by all means, get the shawarma with hot sauce from this cart.

But if you value your organs, your dignity, and your plumbing… run. Run fast. And...

This review is about the Halal food truck at Bank of America building, Uptown, Charlotte.

This used to be my one of the favorite to go Mediterranean meal destination in Charlotte. My favorite menu item was Chicken over rice. I loved the quality and quantity they used to serve at the reasonable pricing of 4.99. But this is somewhere about in 2018.

Then they kept increasing the price Y-O-Y which was okay, but now the price has spiked about 75% to 7.99 per plate. This could have been okay if they could have maintained the quality, quantity and gesture, at least.

However with the increasing demand and closing of other 2 Halal food trucks, they got the sense of monopoly and now compromising on 1) Quality - Sometimes chicken is not that well cooked and smells stale 2) Quantity- I remember, one serving used to be more than enough for one time meal, but now they have decreased the chicken pieces and rice quantity and hence not enough 3) Many of the times they are out of some sauces (white or chilly), which earlier they used to top up and give additional packs generously, without even asking. But now, even on asking for an additional pack, they will either ask for a dollar per pack (less than one spoon of sauce) or say they are out of to go packets.

They have lost that Asian, Mediterranean hospitality sense and gesture towards the customer now.

I used to go twice to these people almost every week and have recommended this to a lot of friends. But now, I avoid this place and wouldn't recommend as I still compare this with the...

Lol looking at past reviews I definitely agree. I first ordered here about 7 months ago & was amazingly surprised at taste & quantity of food, very delicious, but like everyone has noticed food quality went down a lot. Everytime I would go to the cart there was another set of young looking guys running cart & not really paying attention, would never be given sauce half the time. I also noticed a different breads hoagie type roll being used, which was fine, but the meat itself was very shotty quality.i stopped ordering for a while after noticing food quality would depend on whoever was working that night or evening & I didn’t want to gamble good or terrible, however I went to the cart myself tonight & I saw a man & this man looked like he meant business. I mean he had nice full pots of flavorful lamb cooked to perfection…. Ahhh I digress bottom line it looks like the halal food truck is back under old management, because the food was SOOOO good. In fact I’ve never tasted it as good as tonight, they had a nice flakey gyro style bread for lamb & chicken, the sauce was blended into the meat, my favorite part NO HUGE USELESS CHUNKS OF OLD LETTUCE lol I always hated that in the recent sandwiches. I usually don’t write lots of reviews, but when I see a company actually try to please it’s customers I take notice & have to give props where due. Thanks bald guy, for rebuilding & maintaining halal food truck quality. I hope this is an ongoing thing. would’ve taken photos, but ‘twas so good I could not...