Dough day, 5 AM
Shorpa. Every time.
String lights, open window
Today's menu ↓
Elm Street, last July
Çörek blistering
Your Neighborhood's
Next Favorite Stop.
Lamb simmered in clay-pot slow heat. Hand-pulled çörek blistered over open flame. The smoke and spice of Ashgabat — now parked on your street.
"Best thing that ever parked on Elm Street." — David, Lot 4
What We Serve
The Menu.
Say it right, taste it right.
Each dish is named in Turkmen with a phonetic guide — because food tastes better when you know how to ask for it.
Shashlik
/shahsh-LEEK/
Marinated lamb skewers grilled over live charcoal. Charred outside, yielding inside, finished with raw onion and sumac.
Ashgabat grill corner
Shorpa
/SHOR-pah/
Slow-simmered lamb and pumpkin clay-pot soup. A full meal in a bowl — the kind that takes three hours and tastes like it.
Grandmother's recipe
Çörek
/CHUH-rek/
Hand-pulled flatbread blistered in the tandoor. Dusted with sesame and nigella seed. Tear, dip, repeat.
Tandoor, 650°C
Plov
/PLOHV/
Saffron-stained rice with slow-braised lamb, golden carrot, and raisins. The celebratory dish of Turkmenistan.
Wedding table staple
Manty
/MAHN-tee/
Steamed dumplings filled with spiced lamb and onion. Served with sour cream and a dusting of paprika.
Steamed, never fried
Dorama
/doh-RAH-mah/
Chilled yogurt drink with crushed herbs, cucumber, and a pinch of dried mint. The perfect chaser for spice.
Summer staple
Catering menus available for groups of 20–200 people
Where We've Been
From parking lots to block parties —
every stop leaves a story.
"Best thing that ever parked on Elm Street."
David, Lot 4
Elm Street Block Party · July 2025
Catering & Events
The truck that turns
any lot into a gathering.
We bring the full setup — the smoke, the bread, the clay pots, and the smell that pulls people off the sidewalk. You handle the guest list. We handle everything else.
47+
Events catered
12
Neighborhoods served
95
Avg. headcount
31
Sold-out events
Elm St Block Party — 140 neighbors
Meridian Tech Lunch — 80 people
Riverside Market — every Saturday
Private garden party, SE Portland
The Regulars
The people who made this
their neighborhood thing.
David Kowalski
Lot 4, Elm St
Maya Okonkwo
Riverside Market
Carlos Mendez
Meridian Tech
Priya Nair
Hawthorne
James Liu
Pearl District
Lisa Hernandez
Sellwood
"I drove past the truck, smelled the bread, and turned around. That was eight months ago."
— David Kowalski, 40+ visits
"The shorpa on a cold Saturday morning is the reason I get out of bed."
— Maya Okonkwo, 28 Saturdays
"Our whole office started timing lunch around the truck schedule."
— Carlos Mendez, Every other week
Book the Truck
Picture the truck
already parked outside.
Your neighbors already in line. The smell of lamb and fresh bread in the air. A chalkboard menu they've never seen before. That's what you're booking — not just a food truck.
Full setup and breakdown — we arrive 90 min early
Live tandoor bread service during your event
Custom menu for your headcount and event type
Halal-certified, locally sourced lamb
We serve Portland Metro, radius up to 40 miles
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