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Austin’s Best Thai Truck Is Adding Thai Barbecue

Dee Dee is expanding with dishes like whole chickens and Isaan-style dry short ribs

Dishes at Dee Dee
Dishes at Dee Dee
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Dee Dee, one of Austin’s best Thai food trucks, is expanded its spicy menu with a bunch of new dishes courtesy of its new second trailer, which will house a charcoal fire pit and rotisserie at its current home on 2500 East Sixth Street at the La Holly bar sometime soon.

The menu will feature Issan-style takes on whole spatchcocked chicken with sticky rice and both spicy and sweet dipping sauces; dry short ribs; Thai beef jerky, and potentially fermented sour sausages and whole-grilled salt-crusted fish stuffed with lemongrass.

Chef Lakana Trubiana and Dee Dee co-owner Justin Trubiana had always wanted to serve what they called “Thai farmer-style barbecue.” Helping out in the kitchen is Connor Wood, who has been part of the Dee Dee staff for the past year and a half. He’ll oversee the fires and charcoal pits.

The Trubianas opened Dee Dee in 2016 on East Cesar Chavez before it moved to its current East 6th Street home earlier this year.

Dee Dee

4204 Manchaca Road, Austin, TX 78704 Visit Website

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