PHOTOS: Moveable Feast San Mateo

Food trucks are bringing gourmet eats to the hungry masses, and San Mateo residents need look no farther than the San Mateo Expo Center to take a bite out of this foodie revolution. 

On Friday, the first Moveable Feast San Mateo food truck festival kicked off with a huge draw of hungry locals.

Thanks to the mobile food trend, event-goers were able to choose from Cuban, Filipino and Indian cuisine, plus All-American barbecue, and more.

And although each truck had lines of people by the dozens, enjoy their food they did.

Along with live music, clear sunny skies and a Local Label maker faire, this dining experience was a first of its kind on the peninsula.

Going forward, the event can be experienced the first Friday of the month, and in the future more mobile eateries are expected to join the 22 trucks that started it all. 

Movable Feast began from a successful food truck meet-up in San Jose called SJ Eats. 

Event organizer and Treatbot truck owner Ryan Sebastian said he immediately recognized that the event should take place in other "underserved areas" as well. 

Fast forward from the April 2 debut of SJ Eats, and here is Movable Feast in San Mateo. 

"Trucks are usually segregated to San Francisco, but there is a huge demand for it here," Sebastian said. 

When he was approached by the San Mateo Expo Center and given the greenlight to organize the event, this food-centric entrepreneur jumped at the opportunity. 

Though a food truck owner himself - Treatbot is a karaoke and ice-cream experience you have to see to believe - Sebastian sees bringing together individual trucks as a benefit to everyone, not a competition for customers.

"We ended up meeting a lot of these trucks, and it was only a matter of time before we decided, 'let's do something together,'" Sebastian said.

Bill's Hotdogs stand owner Bill Carlson would agree; Movable Feast allows food vendors to get to know one another.

"Ryan used to buy hotdogs from my cart. Now, this is my first time in the peninsula," Carlson said. 

The event wasn't short of first-timers.  

Even food truck nubes made a debut, like Yumsilog, which specializes in traditional Filipino breakfast dishes ("silog" means egg in the Phillipine dialect Tagalog). 

Says Sebastian, "Movable Feast allows people to try trucks and food they wouldn't have the chance to otherwise."

Try a truck you "wouldn't have the chance to otherwise" every first Friday at the San Mateo Expo Center from 5:30-10 p.m. Admission is free.