New York Street Food

Jogasaki truck (photo by Guzzle & Nosh)

First it was Korean tacos.  Now its sushi burritos!

The latest Asian/Mexican mashup comes from the Jogasaki Sushi Burrito truck, which hit the L.A. streets last month.

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We know how much the Japanese love vending machines – and one of the staples of Japanese vending machines is canned coffee.  Nothing like a can of coffee in the morning to get yourself up and around!

The coffee itself is generally pretty good, but the Japanese have a way with names that can be quite strange.  Inventorspot had a rundown of the top ten bizarre soft drinks in Japan.

We previously told you about Kidsbeer, and they also had a separate section for canned coffees.

Click through for some of the oddest Japanese canned coffee brands.

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Osaka, the 2nd largest city in Japan, is also known as “Japan’s kitchen”.

The following video takes you on a culinary tour of Osaka including street food in their Koreatown, the freshest sushi in Osaka, and a potentially lethal meal of fugu, the Japanese blowfish that can kill you if it’s not prepared correctly.

There is a lot more than street food in this video, but we found it quite interesting, and hope you will too.

If you’re not going to the Vendy Awards this weekend, or are (literally) a glutton for punishment looking for another food festival the day after the Vendys, the JapanTown Soul Food Festival is for you.  It takes place this Sunday, Sept 26th and will be on Lexington Ave from 93rd-95th Street from 11am-6pm.

The Soul Food Festival celebrates local Japanese dishes unique to a specific region of Japan.  This festival will focus on the regional specialties of Kyushu, Japan’s southernmost island.  Several Kyushu prefectures and New York restaurants will acquaint New York with some of Japanese cuisine’s best-kept secrets.

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I’ve been wanting to expand the Honorary Street Food category lately, which is for storefronts with little or no seating that serve what is considered to be street food in their home country.

To that end, Today’s Lunch is white fish with teriyaki sauce ($6.75 plus tax) from Teriyaki Boy, a storefront with 3 locations: 9th Ave bet 57-58 St (the one I tried), 10th St bet 1st & 2nd Ave, and 3rd Ave bet 91-92 St.  I can’t say if white fish teriyaki is street food in Japan, but it looked pretty good, even though “Japanese fastfood” was printed on the awning.

They have a huge selection of Japanese lunches and lunch boxes, including sushi, noodle soups, tempura, egg bowls, curry rice dishes and more.  Would Teriyaki Boy be good enough to add to the Honorary Street Food category?  Find out after the jump.

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