🔥 Kimchi Loco • Korean-Mexican street food on wheels 🌮 Order ahead • Skip the line at the window 🚚 Truck rolling Thu–Sun • Downtown & 5th Street Market 🥑 Vegan, gluten-free & halal-friendly options • Every single day 🔥 Kimchi Loco • Korean-Mexican street food on wheels 🌮 Order ahead • Skip the line at the window 🚚 Truck rolling Thu–Sun • Downtown & 5th Street Market 🥑 Vegan, gluten-free & halal-friendly options • Every single day
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Window open now · Downtown

Tacos with a little Seoul in them.

Slow-bulged beef, house-fermented kimchi and street taco tortillas — griddled hot, handed over fast. Pick your heat and watch us make it your way.

🥬 Vegan options 🌾 Gluten-free tortillas 🔥 Halal-certified protein ⏱️ 4-minute pickup

Set your heat level

Our classic gochujang heat — big flavor, friendly pain.
$4.25per taco
House-fermented kimchi
Bulgogi 🔥
Griddled to order
Real Korean kimchi ✦ Hand-pressed tortillas ✦ 12 secret sauces ✦ Real Korean kimchi ✦ Hand-pressed tortillas ✦ 12 secret sauces ✦ Real Korean kimchi ✦ Hand-pressed tortillas ✦ 12 secret sauces ✦ Real Korean kimchi ✦ Hand-pressed tortillas ✦ 12 secret sauces ✦
Why Kimchi Loco

We don't do mediocre street food

One truck, five years, 300,000 tacos. Here's what makes people line up around the block.

01

Kimchi fermented in-house

Real napa cabbage, gochugaru and a 10-day ferment. It's tangy, crunchy, and it eats like a cheese pull.

02

Cast-iron griddle, always hot

Maillard-seared bulgogi, blistered corn, crispy taco shells that snap. No steam, no microwave, ever.

03

Tortillas pressed to order

Nixtamal corn tortillas pressed daily at 6am. Gluten-free, stone-ground, and sturdy enough to double as a spoon.

04

12 sauces, 0 leftovers

Gochujang, yuzu crema, sesame-lime, tamarind chipotle. We batch small so every bottle tastes like day one.

Limited drop · Fridays only

The Seoul Surreal

Short rib that's been braising for 14 hours in gochujang, kimchi jam, smoked egg, and a crushed shrimp-chip crunch. 60 tacos per night. When they're gone, they're gone.

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Our Story

One truck. Two food cultures. Zero regrets.

Kimchi Loco started in 2019 when our founder, Min-jun, was homesick for his mother's kimchi and couldn't find it on any taco truck in the city. So he bought a food truck, learned to make tortillas, and started folding Seoul into San Antonio.

Five years later we're still at the same window, still pressing corn tortillas every morning, and still making the same three sauces his mother taught him — plus nine more he refuses to write down.

4.9★2,300+ reviews
300ktacos served
60saverage wait
★★★★★
“I came for the tacos and stayed for the kimchi. This is the best $4 I've spent all year.”
— Dani R., Google review
Open now

Find the truck

1120 Market Street, under the big green awning
Downtown, next to the old record store. Look for the yellow lights & smell the gochujang.

MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday11:30am – 9:00pm
Thursday11:30am – 10:00pm
Friday11:30am – 11:00pm
Saturday12:00pm – 11:00pm
Sunday12:00pm – 8:00pm
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1120 Market StLook for the yellow lights 🔦