New York Street Food

It’s too cold for street food, so Today’s Lunch is shrimp pad thai from Chai Home Kitchen at 930 8th Ave. on the NE corner of 55th St.  They also have a location at 124 N. 6th St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The pad thai had plenty of scallions, egg and bean sprouts, and the noodles were not overcooked, which can...

Interesting article in the NYT recently about pickup trucks laden with Southern cooking ingredients that drive up to Brooklyn from Georgia and the Carolinas to sell their wares to transplanted Southerners.  The trucks have been a fixture for years in Canarsie, East New York and Bed-Stuy, selling Southern staples such as collard greens, ham hocks, okra and black-eyed peas. While...

Today's lunch is 5 spice-glazed pork belly with pickled Asian pear.   This sandwich had Num Pang's usual shredded carrots, cucumber, cilantro and a spicy mayo.  Everything worked together beautifully. The spicy mayo was offset by the Asian pear and cucumber.  The pork belly was lean and tender.  The light colored ingredient at the bottom of the 2nd photo is the...

Kati (or kathi) rolls have been getting a lot of attention lately.  For the uninitiated, here's how The Kati Roll Company describes their namesake dish: Kati rolls are made by wrapping warm paratha, an Indian flat bread, around a variety of meats, vegetables and cheese.  Each ingredient is marinated in a blend of Indian spices.   Diners may choose from...

In the TV show Jeopardy, there's a category called Before & After, where one word connects two different phrases, such as "split" in the title of this post that connects "banana split" and "split pea soup". This schizophrenic Jeopardy category is the perfect analogy for Mister Soup, a Mister Softee truck spotted near the Metropolitan Museum of Art that is...

We're starting a new feature called Today's Lunch.  When we have something interesting for lunch, it will be photographed, reviewed and posted.  While it will generally be New York Street Food, on occasion it may not be.  As long as it's interesting, it will be posted.  We did a few tweets of these last year, but are now making...

The long-awaited Financial District outpost of Baoguette is now open at 9 Maiden Lane, between Broadway and Nassau Street.  For those of you familiar with the area, it's in the former Klatch coffee space. Although Baoguette is a storefront rather than a food truck or street cart, it is included in New York Street Food under Honorary Street Food, which...

I found an interesting episode of Vendr.TV from last summer that featured Daniel Delaney with Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV. The duo paired wines with different types of street food, and were joined by Zach Brooks of Midtown Lunch at their first stop, the Kwik Meal cart.  Gary threw a fast ball, pairing the platter with a 2008 Premiado...

The food trend prognosticators keep prognosticating, because that's what they do (even if it's quite obvious to the rest of us). According to Denver-based trade publication Eat In Eat Out, street food will be big in 2010.  The publication, a division of the American Forecaster, looks at business and consumer trends in the food, beverage and dining industries.  Street food...

New York Street Food wishes everyone a Happy Holiday and best wishes for the New Year.   We will be on hiatus until January, so please check back with us in 2010 for more info on the latest and best street food in New York and beyond.