Chaac Mool

Time: 3:37pm/72°F cloudy
Purpose: After a quick brief chat with local businesses. I was lead to their pop up set up located between Mission/​Valencia street a community farmers market.
Ambiance: Canopy, convention table, storage bin, ad board, cash box, box organizer, utensil holder, flat grill, thermo keg, glass juice dispenser, supplies/​equipments, ice chest, water buckets.
Staff: Mom and pop operation with a younger guy presumably the son. I dealt with lady warm and friendly never rushing me. The husband did most of the grilling while son perform prep work. Operating like any other family business runs in the blood.
Cleanliness: Grade B, clean and pretty much well kept. All food related goods are wrapped up and store away available when needed.
Eats/​Drinks: Slow roasted pork taco $ 3 on yellow corn tortilla. This was the first time eating a taco that I didn’t like tortilla. It tasted like Mission Tortilla store bought version. Given the fact that at the slightest bend it cracked. However, redeeming value here would be pulled pork. Season perfect and slow cooked showing tenderness, but without the fiber strands breaking up. Natural juices and oil was too much making tortilla soft and smooshy. Picture pork like mozzarella string cheese. Slowly peel off with minimal effort. Pretty tasty minus tortilla.
Products/​Services: Taco, sope, nacho, gordita, quesadilla, torta, tamale, aqua fresca watermelon. Vegetarian available (catus and jicama). Cash only.
Punch Lines: Warm service, pleasing flavor, good portion, average price, limited item, pop up, well seasoned pork, nothing out of the ordinary, casual fare, kept its standards.
Tradeoffs: Sign says Yucatecan food, but most item sold are Tex-​mex at best. Sign is a cover up for something that not offer.
Final Thoughts: Being in business for eight years as a pop up leaves me wondering if they’ll ever have brick & mortar location. Search through Unilocal no listed review for SF and eastbay. I ask if they’ve a Oakland location as someone posted a address with picture back in 2008. Not surprised by this at all, the offering tells a different story that what I initially thought. Oh well, I came to try and left Chaac-​Mool a bit disappointed.