New York Street Food

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Yesterday I stopped by the Eggstravaganza cart on Park Ave & 52nd St to congratulate Arturo on his Vendy Award nomination.  I remember how happy he was last year when his friend Rosa from El Rey del Sabor was nominated for a Vendy Award, and I know how much this meant to him.

Since I have been to two Vendy Awards events in 2009 and 2010, Arturo asked me a few questions about how certain things worked, and asked my advice on a couple of things.  It felt a little stange giving a Vendy Award Finalist advice, but I guess at this point, I have more Vendy experience than he does.

At Eggstravaganza, Arturo started out making great breakfasts before expanding into lunches.  Yesterday I had a Mexican Wrap ($5), which is in the same family as a breakfast burrito.

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I was on my usual route yesterday morning to the Houston St station when I spotted a yellow truck on Hudson St just below Houston.  I’m used to seeing the blue Sweetery NYC truck there, so I went over for a closer look. (Sweetery was back there today.)

It turned out to be Big D’s Grub Truck, who started serving breakfast about a month ago.  I’ve really enjoyed their Korean tacos and grinders, but I’m not usually much of a breakfast eater.  My lunches are so calorie-filled that I try to have just a yogurt for breakfast.

Nevertheless, a breakfast burrito from Big D’s was something I couldn’t pass up.

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Today is the Official Launch of the Malaysian Food Truck that will be giving out free samples of Malaysian food in Manhattan for the next month and Queens for 2 weeks after that.  This promotion is intended to raise awareness of Malaysian food, which is an amalgam of Malay, Chinese and Indian cuisines, with a smattering of Portuguese, Thai, Indonesian and even Middle Eastern influences thrown in for good measure.

There will be 9 restaurants cooking and giving away their particular Malaysian specialties, and each restaurant will get 3 days each to give away their delicious food before the next one takes over the truck.  You can follow the Malaysian Food Truck on twitter here, although we have already added them to our Mobile Munchies twitter feed, where you can find them as well.

The Official Launch is today at 40th St & 6th Ave, on the south side of Bryant Park.  For the first day only, they are giving away a Malaysian breakfast consisting of roti jala and pulled tea.  Today and every other day will be lunch only from 11:30 to 3pm, or until supplies run out.

So what is roti jala and pulled tea?  Click through to find out.

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In rural Virginia, a husband-and-wife team are proving that you don’t need to be in a big city to serve great street food and amass a decent following.   Serious Eats recently profiled Local Sixfortyseven, who in the past season set up at Virginia farmers’ markets including Winchester, Centreville, George Mason University and Reston, as well as wineries like Barrel Oak Winery and Lost Creek Winery, and other community events.

Local Sixfortyseven sources all of their ingredients from local farms or from their own garden.  They make Southern-inspired food that’s local, fresh, and seasonal.

For breakfast there’s strawberry-challah French toast and buckwheat pancakes with blackberry-rosemary syrup, and for lunch and dinners, it’s salads, wild-caught fish, country-fried pork chops, and a half-pound Piedmontese all-beef burger with all house-made condiments (ketchup, mustard, mayo, pickles, pickley green tomatoes, pickley peppers, and much more). For dessert, the pie odds are good. [Serious Eats]

New York Street Food would venture below the Mason-Dixon Line for the cheeseburger pictured below. Wow!

Local Sixfortyseven cheeseburger