Hot new business in New Orleans

Houston Chronicle:

Inside the Taquería Sanchez, workers slice tomatoes, cook fajitas and take orders from customers who line up outside the mobile Mexican restaurant.

The aroma of onions and beef cooking on the grill wafts through the windows of this taco stand parked outside a daiquiri bar off of Veterans Memorial Boulevard. Over the sounds of sizzling fajitas, norteño and merengue music broadcasts over a radio in the truck.

On a Friday night, the parking lot fills with pickups, cargo vans and cars as Hispanic immigrants and Louisiana natives order dinners of Mexican soft drinks and tacos topped with a green salsa. Construction workers in paint-spattered clothing place paper plates on the truck's stainless steel counters and enjoy their meals.

"They are similar to the tacos made in your country," said construction worker Roberto Palma, who hails from the Mexican state of Veracruz. "These are the ones that are the most similar to the place where I'm from."

Taco trucks are one of the hottest new businesses in the New Orleans area, fueled by the Hispanic population that relocated to rebuild homes, businesses and roads destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

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There is much more. The reviews sound pretty good. Many of the trucks are owned by a Houston entrepreneur. The trucks cost about $45,000 each but bring in about $2,000 a day. While the Hispanics who are rebuilding New Orleans are the primary market, the Cajuns are lining up to. Perhaps people will be coming to New Orleans for the tacos soon.

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