All weekend I'd been working on this
soul food cover for Philadelphia Weekly, drawing and looking at pictures of fried shrimp, wings, catfish, macaroni and cheese and various forms of chicken, and thinking a lot about Carribean food and fish hoagies, and realizing that there's a TON of soul food spots way out west and north that nobody ever writes about in all those "best fried chicken" articles.
So the other day I was in West Philly and thought I'd check out some food trucks, but it was late and everything was closed.. except for
Gigi and Big R off on a dark side street near 30th street station. Super awesome jerk chicken, insanely flavorful but not crazy spicy.. dirty pile of rice & beans soaked through with jerk juice. Delicious.
There's a reason they beat out all the hipster trucks at the
Vendy Awards and also these guys are open 7 days a week and LATE I think until 9 or maybe even 11?
