Gyro King

I work nearby once a week and get falafel here almost every time. It’s delicious! And I’m a falafel snob. The salad comes with lettuce, onions (which I get it without), tomatoes, cucumbers (crucial!!) and peppers, plus white sauce and hot sauce. The hot sauce is slightly sweet for my taste. One time I forgot to say «medium spicy» and I had to take several Tums afterwards. But overall, it’s the best falafel I’ve had in Philly and the workers are very nice.

Wow! I just paid $ 4 for a super delicious lamb gyro. I wasn’t expecting it to be so good.
Update:
I just had the chicken and rice. It was excellent! The amount of spice was just right for me– enough to heat it up the flavor a bit without taking overpowering the other flavors. I had the option of having them put a hot, tzatziki or bbq sauce (or all of the above) on it and I went with the tzatziki which gave a good balance to the spices in the chicken.
The do tend to put a lot of sauce on so if you are one to prefer a light amount, say so.
I will definitely be frequenting this food truck!

Halal cart operators come in two types. Both ask «white sauce, hot sauce» prior to drizzling said condiments over chicken and rice platters. The rub lies in the drizzling. The first type will look down and squeeze, admiring his handiwork and adjusting his quantities. The second will look at you and squeeze, his automaton hand weaving backwards, forwards, pouring sauces over the platter, until you signal «stop». Once you recognize the distinction, the food will be much more to your liking at Gyro King.
Gyro King’s operators fall within the second category. It’s not that the zesty cucumber white sauce and the thick medium heat hot sauce taste disagreeable. Au contraire! It’s that the iron fisted and steel eyed server won’t stop pouring until you signal otherwise. Even if the white sauce is dripping down the container’s Styrofoam sides, making a mess on the cart floor, they won’t stop if you don’t first consent. Tell them — «enough!». That’s what they want to hear.
Once you get that out of the way, the chicken and rice platters are pretty tasty. Not tasty as in «tasty for a food truck parked in front of a KFC and a Checkers on the corner of Broad & Girard tasty», but tasty as in «tasty, period». It’s a simple and simply delicious three stepper. A scoop of airy yellow rice. A scoop of hacked chicken thigh chunks rubbed in curry powder. A drizzle of white, a drizzle of red. And Bob’s your Uncle.
A relatively «jazzy for a Halal food cart» salad unnecessarily tries to compensate for the simplicity of the chicken and rice recipe. Positive: who doesn’t enjoy an amped up salad with snappy iceberg, ruby tomato, and green pepper fixings over a plain lettuce «salad»? The super cucumber white sauce makes a great dressing. Negative: a not-​so-​shabby lettuce salad isn’t so enjoyable that it need command half of the platter. Lettuce isn’t very filling, and it’s darn near highway robbery to charge six bucks for such small sustenance. Hence, the above singular usage, «a scoop», not «scoops,» of rice and of meat. More meat, more rice, less salad, that’s where it’s at.

A great place to grab a chicken or lamb (or both, if the dude running the truck so deems you worthy) gyro, rice platter, or salad for lunch for a decent price. It’s $ 4.50 for a pita sandwich and soda, $ 5.50 for a rice platter or salad. Nice, fast service. Constant, reliable. Personally, I like to get the sauce on the side and mix it up myself.