Oh boy. You REALLY need to visit Portland for some real awesome carts.New York City, NY (Manhattan) | 9-1-09
L.A. has food trucks like any major city. I think you can identify what city you’re in by the type of food street meat vendors serve. Here in Los Angeles we’re all about our tacos, Korean-Mexican food hybrids, shaved ice and bacon-wrapped dogs.
New York has tons of street carts serving ice cream, roasted nuts, hot dogs, and the trucks are serving foods I couldn’t imagine they were capable of. Such as dumplings, cupcakes, and BELGIAN WAFFLES.
I found this truck parked on Hudson between King and Houston. An area known as Tribeca (I believe). The name of the food truck is Wafels & Dinges. I ordered a Brussels wafel and topped it with strawberries, bananas, powdered sugar, and a “spekuloos spread”, which was described to me as tasting like graham cracker. It was just what I needed after being lost all morning.
The guy on the left had been to California before. We talked about In-N-Out. I told him about the secret menu. I think he had tried “animal style”, but no one ever knows about the root beer floats, neapolitan shakes, or protein style burgers.
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