New York Street Food

mango chili paleta (credit: NYSF)

Last night we heard from Fany Gerson, better known as La Newyorkina. Fany serves up delicious paletas (Mexican ice pops) in really interesting fruity and spicy flavors, such as the mango chili one we had a while back. In fact, last year La Newyorkina was a Vendy Award Finalist last year in the Best Dessert category.

Fany was very excited to announce that you’ll be able to find her paletas on 81st st & Central Park West, near the American Museum of Natural History. We don’t have the exact hours, but her cart will be there on Thursdays through Sundays during August.

For further details, you can follow La Newyorkina on twitter here or on our Mobile Munchies twitter feed.

Obviously not Fany (credit: NYSF)

Wooly's Ice wins Best Dessert

The Best Dessert category at the 2011 Vendy Awards was another very strong one, which could have been won by any of the finalists and I wouldn’t have blinked an eye.

In the end, Wooly’s Ice, a fairly new stand in Chinatown inspired by Hawaiian and Taiwanese shaved ice stands, got the nod from the crowd.  It didn’t hurt that it was a warm and very humid day, but Wooly’s certainly deserved the honor.  I have no idea what the guy in the green suit was about, but he added a touch of surrealism to their stand!

People loved their delicious shaved ice with brownies, strawberries and leche sauce, which was made from a combination of condensed milk, evaporated milk and a touch of sea salt.  They also fielded a strong entry in the Maker’s Mark bourbon challenge, with a sauce using Maker’s Mark over their signature shaved ice.

Wooly's Ice with Maker's Mark sauce

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La Newyorkina has been getting a lot of acclaim in the past few months – at the Highline, the Hester St Fair, the New Amsterdam Market, in the new Big Gay Ice Cream Shop – and now as a 2011 Vendy Award Finalist in the Best Dessert category.

We caught up with La Newyorkina last night outside the Ace Hotel for Fashions Night Out, where Eric was manning the cart.  While they only had mini-paletas for FNO, we got to try two different flavors – mango chile and white sangria.

mango chile

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