New York Street Food

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Last month when we wanted to go to Trini-Paki Boys for lunch, we found Bankkok Thai Street Food in its place on 43rd St, east of 6th Ave. Trini-Paki Boys was only gone temporarily, and they are peacefully co-existing with the new Bankkok Thai Street Food. Considering there is no menu overlap, it’s not a big surprise.

After asking a few questions, it seems this cart and the Muay Thai cart that opened a few months ago are both expansions of the burgeoning Tuk Tuk Boy empire. Everybody’s trying to capture their own piece of the growing New York Street Food scene.

The menu is similar in many ways, but we don’t recall seeing Spicy Noodles on either of the other menus. Yeah, something new to try!

Spicy Noodles cost $7, and when we ordered, he asked if we wanted chicken in the dish too. We answered yes, but didn’t realize our response was going to turn this into one of the most schizophrenic lunches we’ve had in a while.

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It’s been a while since we’ve been to the Trini-Paki Boys cart and headed over to 43rd St just east of 6th Ave to see what specials they had today.

Oh no, Trini-Paki Boys was gone, and they weren’t across the street either. Anybody seen them around lately?

We know the owner was having health problems, but we hoped they were in the past. If Trini-Paki Boys are gone for good, they will be missed. Not too many places to get doubles on the street. Please let us know if you see or hear anything.

In it’s place was Bankkok Thai Street Food, which looks like another outlet in Tuk Tuk Boy’s expanding empire. It has basically the same menu as Tuk Tuk Boy and Muay Thai, and we recently had this for lunch, so we headed elsewhere. In addition to the menu below, they had a ginger chicken special for $7.

Don’t worry, we’ll stop by soon to check out the new Bankkok cart. Has anyone tried it yet?

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