Bring Back Sang on Wheels!

If you know Sang, you know she’s always working, always with a big smile and laugh for everyone she sees. Unfortunately, the pandemic has made it hard for her to do one of the things she does best, serve great food from everybody’s favorite food truck, Sang on Wheels. She needs your help to get back into action!

Most days before COVID, she’d serve really tasty Lao cuisine and Asian fusion food all around the DC area from her truck. Of course, her great food was a big draw, but Sang’s infectious laugh and friendly personality really made you want to come back again. Just look at all the smiling faces in the pictures. The world needs more of that joy.

With quarantines, people cooking at home, and people not going out for lunch at work, the pandemic hasn’t exactly been great for serving food, and the food truck has had to sit on the sidelines. Sang has kept busy trying to get by, but it has taken a toll. She needs to get the truck back in action. But the good ol’ food truck needs some help getting back into shape. Permits, repairs, inspections, supplies, access to a food prep and storage space, and a list of other things need to happen and the costs add up quickly. Sang needs your help to get back on the road so she can make a living putting smiles on faces and great food in bellies.

If you don't know Sang, here's a quick bio from a 2014 Washington Post article (although it's a good summary, it doesn't capture the energy of Sang)....

Sang Alavi moved here from Laos in 1988 with $20. She knew two words in English: hello and goodbye. She worked as a nanny, a prep cook, a shampoo girl, a cashier and a cocktail waitress before deciding to go to beauty school. After owning a salon for seven years, she came up with the idea of a mobile hair salon. When D.C. government rejected that idea, Alavi didn’t give up. She started a food truck instead (but don’t fret, she’s still scheming to make the mobile hair salon a reality). “On my first day, hundreds of people lined up at 13th and K for my drunken noodles. That day, I was so proud of myself,” Alavi says.