{"id":5637,"date":"2009-02-23T08:04:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T16:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2009-02-23T08:09:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T16:09:57","slug":"wahoos-fish-tacos-turns-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5637","title":{"rendered":"Wahoo&#8217;s Fish Taco&#8217;s Turns 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/b78472478z120090222184111000gv6glsvm1-lg.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/b78472478z120090222184111000gv6glsvm1-lg.jpg','popup','width=488,height=326,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/b78472478z120090222184111000gv6glsvm1-lg-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"B78472478Z120090222184111000Gv6Glsvm1 Lg\" \/><\/a>Used to be that it wasn&#8217;t a real amateur snow, skate, or surf event if <strong>Wing Lam<\/strong> wasn&#8217;t there handing out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wahoos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wahoo&#8217;s Fish Tacos<\/a><\/strong>, but now he&#8217;s handing them out for a 20-year-old business. Hard to believe. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <strong>Ryan Sheckler<\/strong> joined the Wahoo&#8217;s Fish Tacos crew to celebrate their birthday at the original store in the heart of Orange County&#8217;s surf ghetto, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/wahoo-lam-tacos-2315497-years-around\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wahoo&#8217;s co-founder <strong>Wing Lam<\/strong> greeted those who lined up for the event. Lam and his brothers and Wahoo&#8217;s co-founders, <strong>Eduardo Lee<\/strong> and <strong>Mingo Lee<\/strong>, were joined by <strong>Steve Karfaridis<\/strong>, their business partner since 1990, at the celebration. . . . &#8220;When we started, Wahoo&#8217;s was all about bringing our love of surf and food together to create something unique we could share with our family and friends,&#8221; said Lam, who first encountered fish tacos while on a surfing trip to Mexico. &#8220;We had no idea we&#8217;d still be around 20 years later, and we would have the opportunity to support local charities that mean so much to us.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Happy Birthday, Wahoo&#8217;s! Thanks for all those tacos over the years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/wahoo-lam-tacos-2315497-years-around\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/etnies.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/22\/wahoos-20th-with-sheckler\/\" target=\"_blank\">Etnies.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Used to be that it wasn&#8217;t a real amateur snow, skate, or surf event if Wing Lam wasn&#8217;t there handing out Wahoo&#8217;s Fish Tacos, but now he&#8217;s handing them out for a 20-year-old business. Hard to believe. Yesterday, Ryan Sheckler joined the Wahoo&#8217;s Fish Tacos crew to celebrate their birthday at the original store in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5643,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions\/5643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}