Chinese Laundry food truck

Chef Leo Lamprides and Maricela Marques prep the Chinese Laundry food truck, which opened last October, after Lamprides and wife Helen Li hosted an underground supper club called Demes Project out of the Arts District loft kitchen.

Chinese tri-tip beef risotto topped with a runny fried egg.

They bought a truck, covered it in chalkboard paint, then started serving Chinese Mexican-ish fusion food out the side window.

Chinese Laundry operates on a pretty fixed schedule, so you can catch the truck for lunch Tuesday and Wednesday at the Two California Plaza downtown, Wednesday at the Arts District Farms Market, at the DTLA Art Walk and at various stops in downtown Fridays and Saturdays.

Maricela Marques preps two rice bowls, one topped with Grandma’s pork and the other with the three cup mushrooms and the Sichuan spicy cold noodles with an egg on top.

Asian beef cheek taco, left, and pork belly taco.

The couple behind the Chinese Laundry took inspiration from both their backgrounds (Lamprides is half Portuguese and a quarter Greek, Li is from Beijing) to come up with a cuisine that’s uniquely their own.

Maricela Marques prepares a Chinese tri-tip beef risotto topped with a runny fried egg.

Leo Lamprides rolls the Sichuan spicy cold noodles on a tong.