Naegi food truck hits the road

Naegi's Japanese karaage fried chicken sandwich

Jan. 16, 2022 6 AM PT

Naegi, the Japanese-style karaage fried chicken sandwich business run by Matsu restaurateur William Eick, has relaunched in a food truck.

Besides the chicken sandwiches, which are served on Eick’s own house-baked Hokkaido Bread Co., the Naegi menu features other sandwiches and vegetable and salad side dishes. The food truck is being manned by chef Michael Barnett.

The truck is now serving from 3 to 9 p.m. Mondays and Fridays at South O Brewing, 1575 S. Coast Highway, Oceanside. More stops will be added soon. Visit instagram.com/eatnaegi.

Pam Kragen writes about restaurants for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Email her at pam.kragen@sduniontribune.com.

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Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is the arts and entertainment editor, as well as the chief theater, dining and opera critic, for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterf, Conn.