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My guest on Spotlight New Jersey on a Filipino food truck in central Jersey called 12, Josh McGauchie and Jeffrey Fama are also cousins. The name and design on their truck represents all 12 cousins in their family and their relationship growing up. On that really hot Wednesday this week, they parked in front of News 12. They took me inside for a tour. So we're gonna go in and uh show you what we do in this truck. Let's go, Ms. De la Cruz, just be careful. All right. Just take your time. Thank you. There you go. Oh, I love it in here. This is a nice big kitchen. It's a full kitchen here. Yeah. So this is where we do our mini pork egg rolls handmade by him. So that's lumpia. It's like a mini pork egg rolls. It's one of the top items in the Philippines. Um, that's one of our favorite items. We sell like bunch of loads during festivals. Now what's in it? So there's pork, there's carrots, scallions, and a little bit of our secret recipe we're gonna tell you that's grandma's recipe's recipe. no no no don't want you to get. Then this is our poet. Which is our chicken and veggie stir fry noodles has carrots, cabbage, uh, celery, onions, and chicken, and two types of noodles. This is usually a filler upper, so people are asking, what should I eat? I want, you know, I want to get filled up. It's usually the poet because, you know, the carbs. That looks like it's good for you, of course we do vegetarian options too. This is. Our barbecue skewers or meat on the stick, so we offer pork and chicken. And the recipe and like the family recipe so. And it's not a typical Filipino skewer usually you see the the thin skewers that uh they they serve up. We love to feed people, so we got big fat juicy chunks of meat on there so that people are are are filled with it. Man smells good too. This is our. One of our top selling items, it's called the ube banana pudding. So, it's a purple yam in the Philippines, but people asking us like how does it taste like? Just think about just eating like a sweet potato, but it's just purple. So in the bottom is a homemade cookie crumble. Then we put our homemade banana pudding, then we put actually slice up bananas, more. And then we for a top we sell this and the reason why we, we did it is because of one of our nieces, uh, her name is Monroe who asked us to make an ube banana pudding, and first off we were like, you gotta tell your teacher Joy that if we could do it. And then from there, uh, she was like, go ahead and make it and we made a uba banana pudding which we call mrube after to honor her niece Monroe sweet love that.

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This weekend we're putting the spotlight on a food truck that makes authentic Filipino food based on family recipes. 12 is based in Central Jersey. It's owned by Josh McGloy and Jeffrey Fama, who are cousins. They travel throughout the Northeast. Tell me where you all go with your food truck around New Jersey. So we go everywhere in New Jersey, um, New York City, you know, Pennsylvania. A couple of weeks ago we went to Virginia, we're just his hometown, and that was success. Northern Virginia, all that, yes, um, we do a lot of festivals, a lot of catering, so, um. If you need some caterings or you need the festival, uh just email us at mclocky. LLC@gmail.com, which is M A G L A Q U I. LLC@gmail.com or just follow us on Instagram and Facebook 12 truck, the word 12, and we usually because we're based here in central Jersey, we do a lot of festivals. That's around the central Jersey like Union we do Union's Farmers' Market every other Thursday. Uh we do Highland Park 99% of the time we're at their farmers' market every Friday and then on Tuesdays we started Cole Street Market, um, which is every Tuesday, um, in Jersey City. We go all over the place. How busy are you? It depends. It depends on the weather. Obviously, when it's raining, you know, some of these, um, some of these, um, events, they cancel on us, but we try to get busy. We try to be, uh, open up like 5 days a week. So, um, like my cousin, he, uh, posted the schedule, um, Sunday night or Monday morning for the weekly schedule. So people know where we're at because we're in different places and different uh areas when it's hot on a day like, oh my God, how do you manage? You drink the water. I try. We, we make sure we have our own case of water, uh, cold, fresh water for us, so like, uh, nonstop, especially whoever is at the grill, we call her Bertha. You get a sque down a bit. What action do you get from your customers? So our first timers, uh, we love it. Like people who've never tried Filipino food, um, they come back to us and they're like, that, that's something amazing that you guys do, uh, the dishes that, you know, they've eaten, which is, uh, usually the skewer, the lumbia, the poet, um, or the whole combo. So we also have a whole combo for it, uh, and when when they eat and they come back to us, they're just like that that was truly amazing and delicious.

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Josh McGloy and Jeffrey Fama on the food truck called 12 based in Central Jersey. These cousins have taken their delicious meals and desserts to New York City, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Their childhood friend Justin Bustos works closely with them. How do you like the crowds that come up? I love it. I absolutely love it, especially when, um, it's someone that hasn't had Filipino food before. I'll I'll offer them a lumpia just to start them off because I know that's always something that goes off really well and people come back for seconds, 3s. It's happened numerous times with me selling it out that way. And what's it like working with these two? I, I grew up with them. Uh, I, I like to joke around and say I'm the 13th cousin because I grew up next door to them and I tell them like it's, it's the best. It's like we're just hanging out in the backyard cooking, but we're working now. It's, it's a lot of fun. Thank you. You're very welcome. And when you have a free hand. Thank you. You're welcome. Do you have? OK, we're gonna try it. OK, this is the, the chicken skewer. Chicken skewer? Great smoky flavor. I love it. No fork, OK. With just one it's 1. The pork skewer. OK, one each or just in total. OK. That's just a skewer. So flavorful. I love the marinade. The sauce is amazing. I love the smoky flavor from the grill. You must try. What you. Yeah, that's nice. You get back again. Yeah. Mm. Light and fluffy. It's a nice sweet treat. Love the texture. Really good.

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This weekend we are putting the spotlight on a Filipino food truck called 12. It is based in Central Jersey. Josh McGauchie and Jeffrey Fama are the owners. Josh talks about a special burger he created that's very popular. This here is what you all were telling me about the Longanisa burger that you created. Yes, I did. Tell me about it. So in the Filipino breakfast we always use Langanisa. So Langanisa is like a sweet, sour, like soy based, like pork base. So I was like, you know what, let me fuse it in it. So you know who doesn't like burgers? So what it is, is not a typical, you know, uh, American bread. It's a mona bread, the Filipino bun, it's a very sweet, you know, and under it is the purple slaw, if you can see it. And I made like a banana ketchup like aioli, a homemade pork Manganisa burger with obviously cheese and you know what's an egg? What's a burger without an egg? And for us Filipinos, we love eggs. Do people know Filipino food? Some of them. So if they don't know, we explain it to them, and once they try our food, they're amazed about it, so and they come back for more so. You all have authentic Filipino food. You're the only food truck in New Jersey that has authentic Filipino food. Yes. Now, do you plan to expand your menu? We definitely will expand our menu like every, um, every different, um, festivals we'll have our basic, you know, lumpia, our pun said which the, the chicken and veggie stir-fried noodles, our pork and chicken skewers, but we always have specials. So like, like, obviously today's uh, you know, Lagunisa burger. Next, um, next event we do, we, we sometimes we do a chicken adobo poutine which is like fries with cheese and with the gravy. So depending on our mood, so depending on your mood, how busy are you going to be all summer? Uh, we're gonna be busy obviously my cousins said we're gonna be busy, uh, every weekend we'll be booked for the rest of the summer. We have a. Catering. So we follow us on our Instagram or Facebook 12 truck. The word 12, you'll see our schedule and you'll see all the festivals we'll be attending. What are your most popular items? The Monroe pudding. What is that? So it's an ube, which is a sweet potato but purple. Homemade. So on the bottom is a homemade cookie crumble with the uber pudding, bananas, more uber pudding, and a wafer on top. What are your future plans for this food truck? So our future plans definitely expanding. Hopefully, you know, build another food truck, another dessert truck, or, I mean, not another dessert. But uh dessert truck and you know in the future hopefully me and my cousin talking about it, you know, a Filipino tapas, you know, brick and mortar, so we'll see, you know, but you know we're grateful that we have this truck and you know, grateful for our customers, you know, from New Jersey, New York, especially Virginia where he's from, so we're definitely gonna expand.

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Family is very important to the owners of the food truck called 12 based in Central Jersey that is evident in these group photos recreated years apart. Josh and Jeffrey loved the business they launched together 5 years ago. Their food is based on secret family recipes. We talk about their future plans. Jeffrey also shared a moment with a social media influencer, Chris Willy about their comfort food. This is your baby. This is our baby. Why does it mean so much to you too? It's family. I started, we started the business with my cousin and um this is something we've dreamt about since middle school and uh it means so much where May at 12 were the 12 cousins of the uh the family my mom's side um it means so much and uh and that's what it is it's like we the comfort food we we give out is something that. People will feel at home when they come to the truck even though they're not even at home. We feed the soul Even though, you know, even even though like some of the food is unhealthy, but we feed the soul. And it's all about love, you know, that's where our food comes from, you know, we're all about love as well. So I can actually hold it for you. Oh thank you. Oh, thank you so much. Can I just take it out the do what you gotta do. It's, it's in there. The bottom bun is in there too somewhere. So let me just stick my fingers go in. Just go in there and grab it. And then Oh it sliding. Yep, there it is. Mm, oh my goodness, this is so good. Mm. so It's like you're full but you you don't wanna stop eating. Thank you. Uh, Oh my goodness. It is so much flavor, so much flavor. Put an egg on there. The yolk is the perfect creamy. I just love this. This is really good. 10 out of 10. This is so good.

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The name and design of the truck represents all 12 cousins in the Fama family.

Spotlight New Jersey: Twelve Truck serves up authentic Filipino cuisine

The name and design of the truck represents all 12 cousins in the Fama family.

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