"I don't sit down and do nothing."
The caravan, where Mrs Kingi sells ice-creams, coffee, fish and chips and snack foods, has had the rust removed and has undergone a paint job.
"This weekend, same spot," she said. Mrs Kingi will be parked in her usual seafront site, on Cape Palliser Road across from the Ngawi Community Hall.
She thought, because it had been raining on the night the caravan had been broken into, nobody had heard it.
"They went through the back door and then used a drill because I have steel all around it. Somehow they were able to open the lock.
"They lifted the flap so they could open the lock.
"They only took junk food."
She said they had taken chippies, biscuits and, from the fridge, chicken nuggets, crab sticks, meat patties, 1kg of sausages, spring rolls and crumbed chicken.
"They didn't even take the microwave or the stereo."
But they had taken about $50 worth of coins out of the till.
"I don't bother taking it out because I have been parked there for five years and nobody stole off me. I was just surprised."
Mrs Kingi, a widow, has lived in Wairarapa for 20 years.
She said they had opened the till with the key.
"I don't know what they have done with the key. [Now] I can't use the till because there's no key."
After the burglary she had been "so depressed" she went to stay with a friend in Masterton for moral support.
Mrs Kingi formerly ran the Top House Tearooms in Ngawi, from 2004-2007, but said that she had to close it when The Tuka Box was opened by its original owners.
The tearooms were up a slight hill and couldn't compete with the caravan, she said, which was parked on the flat and had more foot traffic.
"Business is only seasonal - who wants to come up in the winter when the road is all blocked - I had to close."
When The Tuka Box was offered for sale in 2011 Mrs Kingi bought it.
"They weren't making any money out of it. There's a reason," she said.
"I'm only making a living out of it because I run it on my own."
When she bought the mobile business she was no stranger to the trade - she ran three food caravans in Masterton during the late 1990s.
She was a regular at the Martinborough Fair, the A&P Show and flea markets.
"I open seven days a week, even if there're no customers."
She said people sometimes wondered why she was not open on the occasional sunny day.
"But that's because there's a gale-force wind and I'm putting public safety first.
"The flap is heavy. But what if it falls on a child's head?"
Keeping people safe was a priority, Mrs Kingi said.
