El Doctor del Valle: The food truck ambassador for Sinaloan seafood
A marlin taco from the San Fernando Valley-based food truck El Doctor del Valle, which specializes in Sinaloan seafood. For details, follow its Instagram feed: @Oscar.eldoctordelvallejr.
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The truck’s cevicheladas arrive in a plastic cup that brims with ceviche given a bath of beer-less michelada.
(Calvin B. Alagot / Los Angeles Times)Oscar Soto’s invention, La Mochila, is shrimp ceviche and fish aguachile with abalone, octopus and oysters in a shallow, acidic pool, pinned under avocado slices, red onion ribbons and a dusting of ground, copper-toned chile piquin. A specialty of El Doctor Del Valle food truck.
(Calvin B. Alagot / Los Angeles Times)From left: a marlin taco; La Mochila; and a cevichelada by the El Doctor del Valle food truck.
(Calvin B. Alagot / Los Angeles Times)The food truck’s married operators, Adina and Oscar Soto.
(Calvin B. Alagot / Los Angeles Times)The El Doctor del Valle food truck in operation. Look for it on Reseda Boulevard between Chase Street and Roscoe Boulevard in Northridge.
(Calvin B. Alagot / Los Angeles Times)The El Doctor del Valle truck
(Calvin B. Alagot / Los Angeles Times)“I love food generally,” says Oscar Soto, “but I can tell you that I love food from Sinaloa and the place where I was born the best.” He and his wife, Adina, run the truck.
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