Food truck teams are rolling in to Flavortown Market.
These incredible culinary duos are ready to put the pedal to the meta
and cook crave-able dishes that put them on the map.
Korean fried chicken.
-But they'll have to break for the red lights... -[siren wailing]
...and handle my dangerous curveballs.
-Oh, my God. -[Chau] Oh, my God, this is intense.
Well, you're in trouble.
The team that wins Round 1 will win an instant 10,000 bucks.
But in Round 2, they will have to face off
against the most baller food truck duo of all time,
and cook crave-able dishes that put them on the map.
Hey, buddy.
It's food truck teams tonight on Guy's Grocery Games.
They better watch out.
So let's meet our food truck duos.
Now first up, we have Chau Vo and Jimmy Nguyen,
chef owners of a Hot Asian Buns food truck,
serving up handcrafted bao in Orlando, Florida.
-[Chau] I'm Chau. -[Jimmy] And I'm Jimmy.
[both in unison] And we are Hot Asian Buns food truck.
[Jimmy] We specialize in handcrafted bao.
March of 2020, we opened the food truck
in the backyard of our house.
It got us through the pandemic.
-We did it for a year, we made it work -[Jimmy] Yeah.
-There they are. -Hi.
Looking so happy. Don't leave me hanging over here.
-He gives me the knuckles and she gives me nothing. -[Chau] I got you.
Cheers.
Next we have Joaquin Ortiz and Henrik Telle,
the owners and executive che of one of Miami's best artisan pancake trucks,
Jealous Fork.
Our food truck is Jealous Fork.
We are the first artisan pancake food truck
in the country and we make sweet and savory pancakes.
[Henrik] Our food truck just won best food truck in South Florida.
So we'll see what Guy throws at us
and somehow gear it into our pancakes.
Oh, my gosh, you guys are giants, you fit in a food truck?
More or less.
They look like a wrestling duo.
And finally, Trino and Leo Oblea,
the father, son duo, chef owners of the widely
acclaimed La Santa Torta Mexican food truck in Oakland.
La Santa Torta is a Mexican food truck,
but we specialize in birria and traditional dishes.
La Santa Torta is one of the top 20 food trucks in San Francisco.
I'm really, really proud of my son.
He loves the kitchen, he's like me,
so he doesn't ... for money, it's for love.
Wait a second, who's the father, who's the son?
-I'm the son. -I'm the son.
-[Guy] Father? -Yeah.
-[Leo] Father. -Father.
-He's my dad, I'm the son, yeah. -[Guy] You're the son, okay.
-Yeah. -Wow, that wasn't confusing. Welcome, gentlemen.
These guys are in for it.
-Good luck, guys. -Good luck.
-Good luck.
First and foremost, let me tell you,
I have met a lot of food truck owners
on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and I have incredible respect for you.
Both chefs have to work as one.
There's no room for mistakes,
there's no room for missteps.
Quite frankly, there's just no room at all,
because you're cooking inside of a cramped little truck.
Especially with you two.
Oh, we're, like, dancing in there.
Is that what it is? Anyhow.
What are we gonna give you for all of this hard work and this effort?
We are gonna give you two intense rounds of grocery games
that will put your culinary and teamwork skills to the test.
The first round I want to be really fast and furious.
I want you to make the judges your food truck's best seller.
-Yeah. -Beautiful.
You have that, right?
-Yeah, 100%. -Yeah.
What's the best seller?
Korean fried chicken bao.
Banh mi.
Red tacos.
Easy peasy.
-Easy. -Easy peasy.
You guys are done, all you have to do now
is shop for it and we'll be finished.
The food truck team that wins Round 1
will have to go up against a different food truck duo in Round 2.
Okay.
Then that means we'd need another team.
Where are they?
Two chefs that turned a single burger truck into a food empire.
They are two-time Triple G winners.
-[Chau] Oh, it's them. -There are the one and only...
The Billionaire Burger Boyz.
[Chau] Yeah, the Burger Boyz.
Burger Boyz.
So, I don't know what they're bringing out here Come out here.
-Come out here. -Come on, come on, bring it in, bring it in.
This our first employee, you know what I'm saying?
We told bro he could roll with us today.
These two guys, and I got to give them tons of credit,
have done a fantastic job.
They came in and competed and now they have their own show.
How hard is it here at Triple G?
-It's intense. -It's intense.
You just cook what you know and have fun, above all.
[Guy] Chefs, here's how it's gonna go down tonight.
The team with the highest score at the end of Round 1
will get a guaranteed 10,000 bucks.
The other two teams, [clicks tongue] hit the road.
The team will then compete against the Billionaire Burger Boyz
in Round 2, another battle worth 10,000 bucks.
Win both rounds and you'll walk out of here with a guaranteed $20,000.
You have 30 minutes to make your best seller.
Just make sure, when we do say, "Three, two, one,"
don't drive over us, please, okay?
So, listen, go first figure out where you're gonna shop.
And then, once you do that, remember you have 30 minutes.
And don't waste your time.
-Because that's the worst thing they can do, right? -Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah.
Oh!
[indistinct shouting]
Listen, awesome to have you guys here, I appreciate it.
Be ready, this next round's is gonna be intense.
These folks really want it.
You wanna do, uh, on the topic of banh mi.
-Okay, um, chicken thighs. -We need chicken.
-Uh, the veggies. -I'll get the goat's milk.
Yes, and, uh, the rice here.
So, our best seller, we're making a chicken banh mi pancake.
[Henrik] We're gonna need time.
-[Joaquin] Eggs. -Uh, butter, we have.
Butter, let's grab a butter just in case.
Banh mis typically come on a baguette.
What we're gonna do is a little bit different as we're gonna actually
sub out that baguette and we're gonna cook our pancakes...
Two formats.
...and sub them in as the bread on this dish.
Produce.
Oh, you know what? I forgot to give them a game.
Help me out, I have got some coffee and donuts in Aisle 1.
I'll give them a Red Light Special, they'll love that, okay?
-Hell, yeah. -You guys go sell it, thank you.
-Good luck, Guy. -Thanks.
I'm lucky I have these guys here.
I gotta let the competitors know.
-[Joaquin] You get basil? -[Henrik] Basil...
Basil, top right.
Getting all our items in.
[Joaquin] Fish sauce.
Feels good, the speed is good.
-[siren blaring] -Attention food truck teams.
There is a Red Light Specia on Aisle 1, a Red Light Special on Aisle 1.
I forgot to tell you when we started...
What is that, the Red Light Special?
...a must-use ingredient in your dish.
Donuts!
-Donuts! -We got your coffee here.
-Get your donuts! -Hot coffee and donuts.
Enjoy that Red Light Specia in Aisle 1.
Thanks for shopping at Flavortown Market.
Hot donuts right here.
-Hot coffee here. -Best in the land, best in the land.
Who wants to put coffee and donuts in their pancakes?
Bad, Guy, bad.
These are must-use ingredients.
You have to get the coffee and you have to get the donuts.
[Joaquin] I'm thinking, "You know what?
I can do a coffee-rubbed chicken."
And for the donut, I think caramelizing it
and grilling it, just like we do to pancakes that'll work.
-Okay, is that everything? -[Henrik] Yeah.
I think so, yeah.
-We need chicken. -I need cabbage.
-Yeah, chicken thighs, grab, uh, we need bao buns. -Bao buns.
-Slaw, cabbage. -Slaw, cabbage.
For our best seller, we are making Korean-fried chicken bao.
We'll take this.
With our loaded kimchi fries
-Let's get you all some donuts. -[Chau] Here.
Let's get you all some coffee.
-[Chau] Coffee. -Take one of them bad boys.
-[Chau] Cheers. -Wake it up, take a good sip.
-[Jimmy] Thank you. -[Chau] Salud!
[Derrick] Come back now, you hear?
You got ginger?
[Jimmy] Where's the garlic?
What's difficult is donuts have a sweet glaze on them.
Come on.
-Coffee, I don't know. -[laughs]
-International, yes. -Yeah.
[Chau] I'm grabbing a bunch of ingredients
for our gochujang sauce.
Gochujang.
[Jimmy] The coffee might be a good addition to the gochujang sauce,
'cause it's so strong and bitter.
-Hot chili. -You need, uh, rice flour. Rice flour.
[Jimmy] I wanna fry the chicken with the rice flour.
-[Chau] Rice flour. -[Jimmy] And tempura flour.
I think we can put the donut crumbs into the tempura batter.
Okay, yeah.
-Only a minute. -[Chau] Oh, my God!
Okay, so let's do a chicken tinga with tomatoes and a chipotle sauce.
-Go get the chipotle, the chicken first. -[Leo] Chicken first.
For our best seller, we're gonna make the chicken tinga red tacos.
-This enough? -Yeah, that's enough.
-So... -Yeah, that's enough.
Donuts and coffee, like, what?
-Look, you'll be good? -A donut taco?
I'm just saying.
Coffee and donuts are not traditional in Mexican tacos.
We got coffee and the donut, we gotta figure out what to do with it right now.
Uh, we need tomatoes.
All I have to use is instant coffee.
I'm thinking about putting in the sauce, the actual tinga sauce.
Could give us some smokiness in there from the coffee.
The coffee is good for the food.
[Trino] Cilantro.
Donuts are definitely a curveball.
What I would think is make it into a crust for the tortilla.
Some of those.
We got everything we need for the best seller,
including the donuts and coffee for the challenge.
22 minutes.
Lots going on, not a lot being done.
I said I wanted a fast and furious first round,
that's what we're getting right now.
They spent a lot of time shopping.
Steamers.
So here to drive our discussion on food truck dishes,
is our esteemed panel of truck drivers.
Cookbook author and founder of the meal kit service, One Potato,
uh, Triple G OG herself, the one and only Catherine McCord.
Boston restauranteur and winner of Tournament of Champions III,
the champ, Sweet Cheeks, Chef Tiffani Faison.
And celebrated cookbook author,
who has five culinary world records,
the one and only, Chef Jet Tila.
Well, we got a lot going on, shop went a little bit long,
we got the Red Light Special I think everybody was game, set and play.
-They have to make their best sellers. -[woman] Yup.
They must use donuts and coffee in their dish.
The winner goes up against the Burger Boyz,
but the Burger Boyz are already sabotaging them.
You know what they could do with this bad boy?
They could make a rub out of it.
We got the honey with the mayo.
-One milk for... -This coffee, I don't...
Eggs for the pancake batter.
It's Colombian.
For our best seller, we're gonna do a coffee-rubbed chicken banh mi pancake.
Okay, where's that butter?
[Henrik] First thing we wanna do is get the pancake going.
They're kind of like a hybrid between a pancake and a biscuit.
It takes 20 minutes to cook
[Joaquin] Ugh, 20 minutes to unpeel this butter.
We're gonna make our pancakes.
And, uh, Henrik's gonna do the dry ingredients
and I'm gonna do the wet ingredients.
[Henrik] In the food truck, we share the responsibility of cooking.
Joaquin is the creative, artsy guy,
I'm more of the technical numbers guy.
Working together, we, um, balance out.
-The yin and the yang. -The yin and the yang.
Ready to rock.
Thank you.
[Henrik] We, uh, are business partners,
but most of all, we're best friends.
Yeah, we met playing disc golf.
[Joaquin] Yeah, those pancakes need to be down in the next 3 minutes.
Yeah, coming on now.
[Joaquin] So while Henrik is working on the pancakes,
I've gotta debone these chicken thighs
and slice them up small enough to cook quickly.
So, I gotta put some work in
Four dishes?
Next, I'm gonna season them with onion powder and garlic powder.
I'm gonna use the dry rub coffee.
What's the chicken?
[Joaquin] Uh, here we're gonna do a little, uh, coffee...
[laughing] Coffee and chicken.
-'Cause you threw coffee at me. -Coffee and chicken!
-[Joaquin] Yeah, coffee and chicken. -Where are the donuts going?
On the banh mi.
It's gonna be a chicken banh mi.
The donuts are going to be in the banh mi.
Or is that gonna be the bread in the banh mi. What is it?
I haven't got that far yet, Guy.
-Okay, good. -[Joaquin] I haven't figured out the donuts.
[Guy] Why not just make it up as you go.
Make it up as I go. I'll figure it out.
Let's go, let's go.
I thought of doing it, take that coffee grind
-and I make a rub. -[David] Hell, yeah.
But keeping G with you, I'd make some type of jerk, some jerked pork.
-You know, something adobo. -[Derrick] Could work with something adobo.
How we looking?
Looking good.
How are we incorporating the coffee and how are we incorporating the bun?
-[Jimmy] Coffee is going in this gochujang sauce. -[Guy] Okay.
[Jimmy] And I ground up some donut and put it in the chick batter.
Okay.
[Jimmy] I'm starting the batter for the Korean-fried chicken
I decided to incorporate the donut crumbs into the tempura batter.
Donut cry.
Korean-fried chicken.
They have donuts in Korea, I think.
[Chau] While Jimmy's workin on the chicken, I'm gonna get started on the slaw.
Shredded the cabbage, get the carrots julienne,
add a little vinegar, sesame oil, salt, pepper and sugar.
-[Jimmy] Babe, steamer? -Uh, steamers are over here.
-Put the steamers up. -[Chau] Yes, yes, we are chefs.
-I don't recommend working with your wife. -Yeah, it's very hard.
[Jimmy] There needs to be one pilot and a co-pilot,
uh, a Batman and a Robin.
-Batman, obviously. -Uh, Boy Wonder, Boy Wonder, right there.
-Bao buns in? -Bao buns are in.
[Jimmy] Thank you.
Uh, she is the best mom, the most supportive wife, so I love her so much.
Aw, it's so sweet, babe. [laughs]
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
-Oh, my God, this is intense. -Oh, my God.
You know what's interesting, these kitchens are probably
larger than the inside of their trucks.
-Totally. Totally. Double. -Ah, good point.
They get to, like, stretch out. [exclaims]
And for food truck chefs, this is, like, a giant kitchen.
[Leo] Got the donuts, coffee.
We eat coffee and donuts all the time, so every morning that's my breakfast.
-Put tomatoes in there. -Yeah.
[Trino] I'm going to have my dad start the tinga sauce
and get the tomatoes in the pot, to get boiling.
He's a leader, so I follow him.
[Trino] And then I start the chicken for the chicken tinga taco.
Let's start it all over there.
Fresh oregano in there.
Let's get, uh, the blender going,
I'm gonna start getting the sauce ready for the blender,
so you think we should do the whole chipotle?
Half, don't make it spicy.
[Trino] My dad inspired me to keep doing this, seeing how he exceled
in his career definitely motivated me to not give up
and keep just trying my best.
Okay, I got it, I got it.
[Trino] These recipes come from Mexico.
Well, this was... I mean, this is our family recipe.
[Leo] The tradition is my grandma, she make it excellent.
And for me it is the best food in the world.
[Trino] For me, that's what's special,
that I'm able to connect with those people,
even if they're not here, I feel like the food connects us all together,
but donuts is not traditional in Mexican tacos.
Just gonna toast them up a little bit in the oven,
create a crust.
So, we'll blend it up and then we dip
-the oil in it, we dip a little bit on it. -Okay.
[Guy] Thirteen and counting.
In terms of the Red Light Special, game play wise...
Game play, we need to see the coffee and donuts in the dish.
Really what you're dealing with is, like,
earthiness and a little bit of bitterness and sugar.
[Joaquin] Hey, can you... How are you over there, on time?
Should be 5 minutes more and it should be good.
[Joaquin] Okay, can you watch these, um, these chickens?
-These little chick, chick, chick, chick, chickens. -[Henrik] Yeah.
[Joaquin] I'm gonna get on the, uh, banh mi sauce.
So while Henrik is being the pancake whisperer,
I gotta start on the sauce, rice wine vinegar and honey
Top it off with some soy sauce,
and then fish sauce and it's gonna add a real nice umami to the dish.
Little sweet, little savory little salty.
[Henrik] The challenge with the donut, it's very sweet, lot of suga
The banh mi is not supposed to be sweet, so it's a challenge.
[Joaquin] All right, I think we're going to, uh,
incorporate this, uh, into the pancake.
What do you think about that, Henrik?
I think we're gonna throw these things into the mix with the pancakes.
-We'll just layer them in there. -[Henrik] Yup.
All right, chicken's done.
All right, we have 10 minutes.
We're doing okay.
I got, uh, French fries to serve with the chicken bao.
It's gonna be, uh, kimchi fries.
French fries are, you know, crispy, rich and kimchi has that acid,
a little spice, a little sou a little sweet.
Let's go.
It's an unexpected punch in the mouth.
[Chau] If we win the first round, that means we're going again
the Billionaire Burger Boyz.
Let's put our hands in, triple B's in.
-One, two, three... -[all in unison] Triple B's!
-Let's get it cracking. -[woman] All right.
And they really throw a doubt.
[Chau] Coffee's in there.
Seven minutes, babe.
[Trino] So we gotta make sure this chicken's done in 3 minutes.
While my chicken breasts are boiling, I'm going to work on the tinga sauce,
so get the tomatoes and the chipotle into the blender.
Gonna see how this sauce comes out with the coffee.
I have to use this instant coffee and we're putting it inside the red tinga sauce.
Hopefully that it will come out and give it a little bi of a smoky flavor in there.
We got 6 minutes, we gotta start thinking
about the chicken that is there.
[Leo] Okay.
My son, you know, he's the boss, so I need to listen my boss.
[both laugh]
All right, go.
-Sauce, right here. Ready? -Yeah, put the sauce.
Right, right.
-How's that for you? -It's good.
[Trino] Take the donuts out of the oven and put them into the blende
And turn it into a fine, uh, dust.
The donut dust is gonna crust the tortilla.
We gotta put the crust on there, crust.
All right, good.
-Tomato? -Yeah.
On the taco.
The donuts are gonna be really sweet with the hea
but it's gonna marry togethe really well.
Well, you made enough tacos here, I'll tell you that much.
Yeah, we put the coffee in there, so it has a little bit of the coffee.
-Then we're gonna crust it. -Actually the coffee in that is delicious.
Guys, you better get moving, you got two and a half minutes.
-Two minutes. -Two minutes.
Ready to go?
-What are you giving me? -[Henrik] Those?
-Yeah, everything. -[Henrik] Okay.
[Joaquin] Plating is really important,
we wanna make sure that it doesn't look like
we're doing sloppy food truck food.
All right, so traditionally my banh mi gets mayo.
This is our donut pancake, which is gonna get snuck in there as well.
[Henrik] First we get the pancakes down
with the Red Light ingredien the donut.
[Joaquin] Second, we're gonna put our fresh cucumbers down.
And then on top of that, we put the, uh, coffee-rubbe chicken.
[Henrik] Next we want to put our banh mi sauce over the dish.
Oh, no, no, you stay on top.
You're the boss.
And then after that, we're gonna need all of our aromatics,
we're gonna put our chiffonade basil,
our fresh cilantro and our red chilis.
We're pushing the boundary here.
We're frontiersmen of pancakes.
Rock and rolling, let's go all day!
[Guy] Minute fifteen.
-[Jimmy] Plate. -Plate, plate.
[Chau] For plating, we started off with the frie that we topped with gochujan
kimchi, queso fresco.
That's what people want from loaded fries.
[Jimmy] I start putting the Korean-fried chicken into the bao bun.
And then the slaw goes right on top of the chicken.
Make it look nice, babe.
-Korean-fried chicken. -Korean-fried chicken.
Thirty seconds, thirty to go.
[Leo] Everything is done, I need to do the taco.
For the first layer, we'll fill it up with the chicken tinga
and, uh, the lettuce and the cilantro on the top and the sour cream.
[Guy] Five, four, three, two, one.
-That's it, stop working. -[Chau whooping]
[Guy] What a battle. What a battle!
Babe, babe.
[all cheering]
All right.
All right, chefs, it is time to give your best seller to the judges.
Follow me, right this way.
All right, judges, here we are Game 1 of the food truck teams.
Our chefs had to prepare their best seller using instant coffee and donuts.
Who doesn't need a little pick me up.
Chef Chau, Chef Jimmy, you're up first. What did you make?
[Jimmy] Korean-fried chicken bao.
The chicken is covered in gochujang sauce
and the side I have for you loaded kimchi fries.
[Chau] Coffee grinds is in our gochujang sauce.
We did the donuts in our batter for the chicken.
In terms of best seller, I'd believe it.
The chicken is crispy. In 30 minutes, I didn't think you'd get the crispiness
on the chicken and maintain it,
'cause you slathered all the gochujang sauce, so kudos.
[Tiffani] You have your dis that you bring.
You know it like the back of your hand,
so we're adding coffee and donuts, which essentially
is just, like, a little bit of bitterness and a little bit
of sugar to a dish you already have,
you know, really pumping up those flavors.
Putting the coffee in the gochujang, really, really smart.
-This is next level. The bun is so soft. -Thank you.
[Catherine] And you know what? I think the plating is gorgeous.
This side of the plate is pure magic.
Why are my fries not crispy?
That makes me a little weepy.
All right, up next, Chef Joaquin and Chef Henrik. What do you have for us?
So, today we present our, uh, best seller,
it's a savory coffee-rubbed chicken banh mi.
[Joaquin] One of the things that we like to do, uh,
is play on pancakes, so what you're eating is pancakes.
We actually grilled the donut.
So you're gonna get a nice, like, caramelized grilled donut.
Uh, we've coffee-rubbed the chicken, so you will have
a little bit of sweet, you will have
a little bit of savory and we want all of that in one bite.
I really think this dish is super creative.
The chicken is outstanding.
And I think you used the coffee amazingly,
'cause that is the master stroke, to put it here.
I think the game play is really good with the coffee for sure.
The problem is the donut on the grill starts to compete
So I get a little bit, a little tied up there, a little jammed up.
I know you guys are the pancake kings,
but I wish that it had been a flatter one.
I wish that this had become more of a sandwich.
When you say banh mi, I'm thinking crispy French bread,
so it just doesn't hit in terms of the expectation
It tastes great and your plating is clean.
Heard that. Thank you, Chef.
Father-son team, Chef Trino and Chef Leo, what did you make for us?
How you doing, guys? Uh, so we did a chicken tinga.
Uh, with tomato sauce and chipotle sauce.
We incorporated the coffee into the red sauce that's inside the chicken.
And the donut, we turned it into a crust
and we dipped that actual tortilla in it.
So there's a little bit of a crust on the outside.
Yo, that was delicious, bro.
Chicken tinga, I think, was the perfect move
because of the time you had and the ingredients you pulled.
The heat level is spot on, the chicken is seasoned, it's tender.
Overall, really delicious.
Plating could have been a lot better.
All the skill you have, I think you could have done better.
This is ridiculously good.
The gameplay, gameplay, gameplay.
Like, to take the donuts and crust the tortilla with that?
Like, it blows the back of my head off
I never would have done that
And to put the coffee into the sauce is just next level.
The chicken is really delicious.
I wish I had had even more of the sauce 'cause it did get a little bit dry.
If you had just grabbed an avocado, some extra fat to just give it the kiss,
I think that would've been a win.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
Well done to the three of you.
I wish we could keep all of you, but unfortunately we have
two burger bad boys that are waiting around the corner to come after somebody.
It'll be a difficult decision for the judges.
We're gonna send you back to your kitchens.
Let the judges deliberate and score,
and we will call you back when we have a winner.
-Okay? Thank you very much! -[Tiffani] Nice job.
-[Catherine] Thank you, guys. -[Guy] Great job.
[Catherine] Great job.
Which food truck team hit a bump in the road? That's the question.
Let's start off with the score.
20 points available in gameplay,
20 points in taste, 10 available in plating, 50 overall.
Well, teams. Well, we want to give 10,000 bucks to one of the teams.
So let's go to the numbers.
Leo and Trino.
20 points available in gameplay. You get 17.
20 points in taste, 17, nice!
-[judges] Whoo! -Plating, a 7, for a total of 41.
-[Guy] Nice score. -Wow, nice.
[Guy] Congratulations.
-[all applauding] -[Guy] Nice score.
Joaquin and Henrik.
20 points available in gameplay. 15.
Taste, 16. Plating a 6, for a score of 37.
Not a bad score, but not enough to keep up with 41.
Chau and Jimmy.
You have to have a 41 or better.
Out of 20 in gameplay, 17.
Taste, 18.
-Plating a 7, for a total of 42! -[judges] Ooh!
-[judges] Whoo! -[all applauding]
-[Guy] Congratulations. Congratulations. -[all applauding]
Chefs, wonderful to have both of you and job well done.
-So thank you very much. -[all applauding]
Good job. Good job, guys.
In the end, we're still opening up our restaurant this year.
We're super excited about that.
[Leo] We lost by one point. It's a little disappointing
Hopefully, we get to do this again one day and have another chance.
Good people.
Congratulations, $10,000!
-Whoo! -[all cheering]
-Yeah! -[all applauding]
And there's 10,000 more on the line.
The only thing that stands between you and that
are two gentlemen who have been here and competed twice.
They've won twice.
-[Catherine] Yes! -Billionaire Burger Boyz are waiting.
Round two coming up right now!
This is the final round of the food truck teams.
They beat out two really dynamite groups,
-and you have $10,000. -Whoo!
Now, you're going up against two food truck legends.
These are the heads of an ever-expanding burger empire
and they are two-time Triple G champs.
Give it up for the Billionaire Burger Boyz!
-Let's go, guys! -[upbeat music playing]
-[all applauding] -[Catherine] Yeah!
-[Jet] Wow! -[all cheering]
Now, normally...
Normally, the team you're going against doesn't get their own big intro,
but these guys wanted a hype reel, so...
-Thank you, man. -I just had to give it to them, you know.
-Woot, woot. -Beat the champs,
and you win another 10,000 bucks for a total of 20 grand.
For your final challenge, I want you to make a special dish...
That only your most devoted customers would know about.
I want you to make that secret menu special.
Now, I know making a special dish can take time.
So I'm gonna speed things up for ya.
I'm going to do something we don't typically do in Flavortown Market.
You're not gonna have to shop together.
Matter of fact, Hunter, do me a favor.
Hunter, grab me, uh, grab me two more carts.
-Ooh. Exciting. -Uh-oh. Here we go.
-There we go. Got two carts. -I did not find carts.
-Hunter... -But I found these baskets.
-Oh, yes! -Wow!
And I think that they work, I mean...
-Baskets will work for now. -Well, it's not fair to give these two bigger...
-I got it. We'll do this, here. -You swap...
I'll give you guys one of the baskets.
-I'll give you one of the baskets. -[Hunter] Ah!
-And Hunter, you give the red basket. -Okay, yeah.
-Thank you, Hunter. -[Guy] Oh, okay, perfect.
Go ahead and stand in front of your carts.
-Thank you. Nice job, son. -All right.
-Thank you. -Good luck everyone!
Oh. This is great.
Okay, so you each have your own basket. Perfect.
But wait a second. You know what's interesting?
-Uh-oh. -Is when I look...
"Uh-oh" is right.
That's exactly... "Uh-oh" should be at the top of your mind right now.
When I look at those baskets, it makes me think you're a little bit divided--
You know what? Why don't we do this?
Why don't we divide the market?
-That's right! That will speed things up. -Uh...
It is actually the game called "Divide & Conquer."
You see, you each get to shop a different side of the store.
The chefs with the red baskets get to shop the red side,
and the chefs with the blue baskets get to shop the blue side.
Oh, look! We even put the lights on for ya.
So if you've got a blue basket, you shop on the blue side.
You have a red basket, you shop on the red side.
Ta-da!
Now you can only shop on your side.
Now you can meet over back on aisle 10,
and talk to each other across the aisle, without crossing the aisle.
And discuss what you're gonna make,
and then you can shop separately.
But once you're done shopping, the shopping is over.
Thirty minutes to divide, shop, prepare, and conquer your secret menu item.
Remember this,
It's just like this, just as if we had the carts,
as soon as I say, "Three, two, one, go!" It's gonna happen.
Hey, hey, where you going?
Where are the red baskets going?
Why is everybody going that way?
Didn't I say it was blue and red?
[Davidlee] I see a secret menu item as the people
they know it's not on the menu,
but they know that you can do it.
Holler at me, right here.
-Come here. -Bro, bro.
-[Chau murmuring] -Bro, back down this way.
-Y'all go that way! -[laughing] Argh!
[Davidlee] So if I know you' got pastrami, and I know you've got chili cheese frie
Just 'cause it doesn't say chili cheese fries with pastrami on the menu
doesn't mean you don't have it.
Burger Boyz style.
-Yes. -Let's get it.
So divide and conquer means
we each have to take a side of the grocery store.
We cannot shop together.
Everything on his side is the stuff that I need.
Everything on my side is the stuff that he needs.
So get ready for the yelling.
Hey, yo, Soulo!
[Derrick] Yo!
Frozen fry?
I need flour!
Hey, garlic oil!
Heard!
Bet.
Fortunately they don't need any mic or any PA.
Yeah, get some wings in here.
On my side, I'm grabbing all the meat.
Boom.
I'm grabbing the proteins, I'm grabbing some chicken wings,
we're grabbing some salmon.
I need some fish.
Instead of doing a regular beef slider, we're thinking some salmon sliders.
Slider buns, slider buns...
Yeah.
Hey, yo, Soulo!
-Yo! -Mayonnaise!
Got it!
So my side of the store is the sucky side
because I have all of the veggies,
and the condiments.
I'm grabbing mayo and cabbage for our coleslaw.
For the fries, I'm grabbing all of our fresh potatoes.
And some jerk seasoning for the wings.
-Hey, Soulo! -Yo!
Sharp cheddar!
Yeah.
-We know how to cook, and we... -Yup.
-...gonna cook what we know. -Exactly.
This is one of my favorite competitions because they're counting on one another.
And they think they tell the other what they need.
And then someone, inevitably, forgets a key component.
And then there's a lot of, uh, there's a lot disappointment and shame,
which is awesome, right?
I think a secret menu item kind of has to go along with your concept.
-But be a little special, and one-off. -Mmm-hmm.
Lobster garlic noodles on a bao truck?
-That's not something... -That's unheard of.
Yeah.
-[Jimmy] Let's do it. -[Chau] We'll meet back here and talk, yeah?
-[Jimmy] Yeah. -[Chau] Okay. Bye.
[Jimmy] I have the blue aisl which is 6 through 10,
which is not a lot of the things that we need at all.
[Chau] Aisles 1 through 5 is actually where
most of our ingredients are gonna be.
[Jimmy] And all I had to grab was the lobster,
honey, and toasted sesame seeds.
So Chau had to grab every other ingredient.
[Chau] All right.
[Jimmy] I usually do the shopping because I look at prices.
My wife doesn't look at prices.
I compare items, I look at nutrition, the nutritional facts.
And she just grabs and goes
-Just grab and go. [laughs] -Yeah
[Jimmy] You need to grab everything
-for the soy garlic sauce as well. -Right.
-So oyster sauce, I got garlic. -Soy...
-I got even fish sauce. -Yeah.
-I got noodles... -Noodles, fish sauce.
We've seen the Billionaire Burger Boyz.
And they are good.
-It's our first rodeo, so... -Our first rodeo.
They're like veteran cowboys so we don't know what we're doing.
-You got soy sauce? -[Chau] Yes!
I mean, there's only 24 minutes left.
-Let's go, let's go! -Okay, let's go!
-Ready! -That it?
Yeah, I got the jerk, I got the oil.
I got the aioli, everything.
-I feel confident. -You rolling?
-Let's rock. -Let's rock.
[Jimmy] Let's cook.
Okay. They're into the kitchen.
Hope they didn't forget anything.
[Guy] 22 minutes. 22 to go!
-They all have to make a secret menu item... -Mmm-hmm.
Which I guess can be anything, right?
I think it needs to be a little off the beaten path of what they normally make.
You've got to put your heart on that plate.
And reputation. Billionaire Burger Boyz have not lost.
-[laughing] That's right. -Whoo!
Larry, you got us, bro?
Uh, Worcester...
Larry finally showed up.
For our secret menu item, we do a slider, we do two wings,
and we do our fries with it
Fries. Fries working. Fries working.
We hit them with a dredge first.
-I like the thick kind. -[Derrick] Yeah.
[Davidlee] So I'm making a marinade for the wings.
I got some Worcester sauce, jerk marinade.
You got garlic?
-Garlic with seasoning? -Yeah.
That was on your aisle.
-Oh, lookee here. I did not grab any garlic seasoning. -[chuckles]
One of our terms is, if you're not sneezing,
-it ain't seasoned. -Exactly.
And I forgot the seasoning!
-Wasn't nobody sneezing. -Wasn't nobody sneezing.
We got some Caribbean jerk wings right here.
They're gonna go on the grill.
We're gonna get these bad boys a good little sear.
-Maybe I'm putting them right in the oven. -Heard.
We are undefeated at this point so we don't plan on taking no Ls today.
We ain't come to lose.
Once you get the wings in.
-This ain't gonna work. -[Derrick] Going in.
[Jimmy] Yeah!
Secret menu lobster.
[Chau] Lobster garlic noodles.
Who doesn't love lobster?
-Shells on? -Shells on.
-Shells on? Let's do it. -Shells on.
Think it'll be easier for them to eat?
[Jimmy] They can eat it.
I start on chopping up the lobster tails.
I decided to leave the shells on because...
The shells add more flavor.
I get the tempura mix in the bowl, add some paprik
mix it with some water to get a pancake-like consistency.
[Chau] I came up with the id that we can do the lobster with the garlic noodles.
We've done it so many times.
Fast and furious right now, I'm telling ya.
Make it hot!
I mean, we could go simple fries, but it might not step it up a notch.
Cheese and shrimp fries.
Bro, we the Billionaire Burger Boyz.
Why put something basic on the plate?
That's not what we do everyday.
-We're gonna figure out how to do something glutenous. -[Derrick] Right.
-We might as well take it there. -[chuckles]
[Davidlee] So for the shrimp we're... I'm getting it in the pan.
[Derrick] I'm gonna bust this salmon down.
I need to get some dredge made.
We do our salmon nuggets already on the truck.
-Those are already a secret menu item. -Mmm-hmm.
Why not turn that into some type of slider?
-[Derrick] Ooh. Easy call. With a slaw? -Hell yeah.
-Yeah, with the slaw. -Yeah, bet. Let's go for it.
Yeah, if I ever find that I should put a salmon nugget on a sandwich...
If you feel it down in your heart, down in your spirit!
[chuckling]
-What's this? -Dredge working.
That's for your dredge.
That's what I love about him.
So I'm starting the salmon and, luckily, my boy got my back
'cause he already got my dredge going.
He got it seasoned up, ready
-They going in right now. -Going down right now?
Hell yeah.
A lot going on in this kitchen.
A lot of big flavors in this kitchen.
Fried lobster.
They're not gonna be missing any flavor,
it's just gonna be who can execute and plate the best.
Oh, pasta is so close. Come on, pasta.
We're gonna need one sauce for the garlic noodles, and one for the lobster.
[Jimmy] I'm gonna get started on the soy garlic sauce for the lobsters.
-Did you see my honey? -Your honey is... You took it.
-Where my honey, where my honey... There it is. -You took it.
-I'm gonna make a little sauce for the pasta. -Okay. Okay.
So sauce would be oyster.
This sauce is gonna go a little... Just a little bit is gonna go in there.
Lots of garlic, right?
-[Jimmy] Lots of garlic. Yeah. -Lots of garlic, ginger...
To grab ginger, I realized I grabbed taro root instead.
Meant to grab ginger.
Did not grab ginger.
Well, you're in trouble.
[laughing] That's why Jimmy doesn't let me go grocery shopping.
It's okay, it's okay.
It's called garlic noodles, not ginger noodles.
[Chau] We can go without ginger.
[Jimmy] Winning this money would really help us get a brick and mortar.
-Ohhh! Noodles good, babe. -Perfect.
Down to the last minutes right now.
Telling you, two and a half minutes.
-Go for it. -Oh, money.
-We gotta start throwing... -[laughing]
Stuff on this plate.
I got fries going in.
Fries look perfectly cooked
Cool, let's go ahead and get these shrimps on top
Two.
Come on, salmon, don't fail me now!
-Whatever that salmon's at, let's run it. -All right. Go ahead.
[Davidlee] Wings are lookin good, they're cooked, let's get them on.
[Derrick] So when the salmo comes out the fryer,
it's just like I want it to be.
GBD: Golden brown delicious.
Put it on there and then I'm coming with the slaw.
[Jimmy] The lobster looks gorgeous.
It's GBD, golden brown and delicious.
I toss the lobster in the soy garlic sauce.
I put the garlic noodles on the plate.
So the lobster can go on top of that.
[Guy] Five... Four... Three... Two... One.
-That's it, Chefs, stop working! -[all cheering]
-[Tiffani] All right, guys. -[Catherine] Yes, Chefs!
-Amazing! -Nice job, guys.
You food truck chefs really threw it into overdrive.
Let's take it to the judges, right this way!
All right, judges, here it is.
Team members had to shop half of the store for their secret menu item.
Chef Chau, Chef Jimmy, you're up first. Tell us what you made.
Hello, Chefs.
Our secret menu item is the tempura batter
fried lobster over garlic noodles.
[Jimmy] We left the shells on the lobster for more flavor and to keep the lobster moist.
Wow! Delicious.
-Thank you. -Please tell me that when I come to your food truck
that this secret menu special will be on.
[Jet] The noodles are perfec I really get the garlic.
It's very soy and sweet forward.
The lobster for me is overcooked.
I don't think you should have done the shell.
I think you should've just popped it, very quick starch, very quick fry.
It just makes it a lot easier.
[Catherine] I wish there was little bit of heat in there.
'Cause it's a little bit sweet.
So with some nice heat or some nice acid in there would have really helped.
It's new mommy bomb.
You're giving me noodles and lobster.
Did you say, "It's my new mommy bomb"?
-Yeah, it is my new mommy bomb. -Wow!
I just need to be left alone.
I need to be alone with this dish.
-I think... -Excuse me, just one second.
Chef, I know that that lobster is really overcooked.
-I don't want you to have to continue to eat it. -[all laughing]
-I know that you... -[all laughing]
You've been very concerned about its overcooked...
-In fact, I just don't want you to just continue to eat... -I made you a lobster pop.
-[both] Ooh! -Thank you very much, Jet.
'Cause I noticed that it was so overcooked
-[all laughing] -that you were shoveling another chunk in your face.
-Wow. -[laughing]
All right, ladies and gentlemen, without further ado,
the Billionaire Burger Boyz.
Gentlemen, what monstrosity have you served them?
Today, what we did for y'all, we gave you guys the Larry budget box.
We did some deep fried salmo and made salmon nuggets, and made sliders out of them
Made our house made slaw.
We made some Caribbean jerk wings for you guys.
We grilled them, put them in the oven.
And then we added some garlic shrimp fries for you guys.
Holy moly, this is so much food!
This salmon burger is next level.
Moist, fatty, the homemade coleslaw, seasoned perfectly.
That is the star of the show today.
I just don't know how you put so much well-executed food on a plate.
The shrimp is that perfect crystally, poppy... You know what I'm saying?
When the shrimp is right?
I think the chicken wings could've had a little more seasoning.
'Cause you say jerk, like, you gotta bring heat.
[Tiffani] I do need more jerk on the wings.
I want habanero, I want thyme, I want allspice.
I want those flavors to really pop.
Salmon burger is so, so good.
Had you done this, right?
And just like... [clicks tongue]
Like, this is confidence. You just say, "We got it."
Like, this is our salmon burger. This is the secret menu.
Secret menu can't be the whole menu, right?
It just needs to be the secret menu. The tight menu.
[Guy] All right, judges, thank you very much.
Teams, I gotta tell you this.
Such a great representation and recognition to the food truck industry.
And a difficult decision for the judges.
We're gonna send you back to the kitchens.
We will have some deliberation, some scoring,
and we will call you back to find out who wins the 10 grand.
-Whoo! -All right? Thank you very much.
-Congratulations to both teams. -[all applauding]
-[Tiffani] Yes, Chefs! -[Catherine] So much work.
So which duo's dish is going to end up
as the top secret menu item?
Let's start off with the score.
20 points available in gameplay.
20 points in taste, 10 available in plating.
I thought it was great. I love the competition.
Both teams really represented well.
Unfortunately, only one team wins the $10,000.
Chau and Jimmy first.
Out of 20 gameplay, 17.
Taste, 17.
Plating, 8, for a 42.
-[Catherine] Hey, wow! Great work. -[Guy] 42.
-Nicely done! -[all applauding]
Gentlemen, it's 42 or be done.
Out of 20, gameplay, 16.
Taste, 16.
-Better be a 10 in plating to tie it. -[all] Ooh!
-For an 8, for a 40! -[all exclaiming]
For a 40!
-For a 40. -[all applauding]
Congratulations, Chau and Jimmy!
[all cheering]
-[all applauding] -Oh, my God!
DavidLee, Derrick, I gotta say this to you gentlemen.
Not only are you great ambassadors, you're just really great dudes.
-Appreciate y'all. -Thank you so much, guys!
[both] Thank you, guys!
I wouldn't say we lost today, but--
-But we did lose. -Yeah, we definitely lost.
[Davidlee] I wouldn't trade the experience for nothing.
And guess what, y'all? We will be back.
-[Guy] Give it up for Chef Chau and Chef Jimmy. -[all cheering]
-Congratulations! -[all cheering]
We just won $20,000 total.
-I've never even won a participation trophy, -[laughing]
so winning this is like...
-It's next level. -It's next level.
Come on over, say hi to the judges!
Very happy for ya.
-[Chau] Thank you! -You got it, ladies and gentlemen!
You can't beat it!
20,000 bucks, right here, Triple G!
We'll see you next week. Adios!