Tamworth street food: Tamworth's Burger Bulls an immigrant 'dream' achieved

When he moved to Australia from India in December 2013 with a dream of founding his own food business, he didn't even speak English.

He learned both the language and cooking in Melbourne restaurants over the next decade. And finally last month he created Burger Bulls, Tamworth's newest food truck, with his friend Dilbir Singh.

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"If you really want to do something you can do it [in Australia]. I feel like thus country provides you everything. Even this language I'm speaking now I've been taught here," he said.

The new food truck will next week become Tamworth's first 7-day street food option with a permanent site at Transwest fuels, he said.

The menu is largely American and Mexican, with options like burgers, wraps, wings and loaded chips. But they're considering adding a fusion option reflecting their national origin - potentially fries loaded with butter chicken.

Mr Singh worked as head chef at Tamworth pubs for two years.

Being mobile they plan to take on festivals and events in surrounding town, but the Marius street site is set to be their base for the forseeable future.

"We want to be in the town, because that's our town so we want to be in town," he said.

"Being mobile it's good for location as well. if it doesn't work out you can change and you can find somewhere else, but you can't take a restaurant somewhere else, you have to be there."

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Eventually they hope to even move to a brick-and-mortar store.

Mr Kumar said they're thinking about creating a "dark kitchen" - no eat in, just takeaway - in the next year or so.

But whatever happens they're always going to have their "dream" in the food truck.

"The town required it. We needed a base somewhere and we needed a partnership," he said.

"We can go anywhere with the mobile truck.

"I feel like I love the town so it will be fine to open here, more, and then we can go anywhere else as well."

Tamworth's street food sector has boomed in the last year

Wafflepopz, American BBQ Chicken and the Birdman Food Truck regularly visit the city, for events, among a number of other food trucks that regularly open on weekends.

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