The Steak Truck
Earlier today I saw this disturbing news on Midtown Lunch... apparently they're going to ban seafood from a food cart! Today it's seafood and tomorrow it's going to be bacon and an occasional steak. And then what would fake vegetarians have to eat?! But I digress, food carts are an important thing to me, and of course the city is doing a poor job managing such a thing, considering they make stupid rules and never try to profit from said stupid rules. What kind of bureaucracy is this?! At least swindle some dudes. Since last night I finally caught up on my episodes of Glee, and this video is a pretty good assessment of how I feel about food carts. For those of you who don't follow teen pop (and I don't know why you would do such a thing), the song is called My life would suck without you by Kelly Clarkson. So let's talk about some street food now shall we? Yesterday I tried the Steak Truck
This past summer, the Steak Truck took fourth place in the annual Street Meatpalooza. When I ate it at Street Meatpalooza, it was the first time I had the Steak Truck. I was really impressed with the way they piled on the meat on top of the rice. They scored points with folks because they threw in a couple of waffle fries and a falafel into the meat on rice dish. Yesterday however, they didn't do that. So even though they scored novelty points this past summer, my one experience with them was without a falafel.
Have no fear though, the dish was quite wonderful. I usually take my street meat without white sauce because the white sauce sort of dampens the hotness of the hot sauce. And then they never give you as much hot sauce if they also do the white sauce. This is just opinion though, maybe my perception of their bottle squeezing techniques is wrong. Either way, the pieces of meat were cut up pretty well, not too finely, and the hot sauce had its way with me half way through my meal. For $6 it was a good meal.
The Steak Truck
47th st and Park Ave.
New York, NY 10017
I want to die eating street meat and watching Glee.
Mr. Pork Chop
December 21, 2009 11:52 am
@James,
Hmmm... Kim's fried fish sandwich is really the only cart I know that does seafood. I want to say they also do fried shrimp and some other places got fried shrimp as well. Supposedly the Schnitzel Truck does a cod schnitzel so that sounds good.
Danny
December 16, 2009 4:09 pm
The 100% Halal and Healthy sister cart on 54th and Park (SW corner) has fried shrimp and fried fish (I think whiting)
flatrock
December 18, 2009 4:12 pm
I realize that this question is completely unrelated to this particular post, not to mention two years too late, but why did you give up on your Tumblr?
anon
December 16, 2009 5:06 am
@anon,
That's an interesting question... I basically started tumblr as a social experiment to be less socially awkward. The realization was that I probably couldn't achieve what I wanted via that venue. Not sure that I succeeded nor would I ever succeed at becoming less socially awkward. The people on tumblr were great though. Also, there's not enough time in the day to blog at a bunch of places.
Danny
December 16, 2009 10:20 am
I'm going to hit up a couple seafood oriented carts in the city this weekend; got any favorites? I'm pretty sure I'm checking out Kim's fried fish sandwich, for starters.
James
December 16, 2009 11:15 am