Midtown Lunch

After weeks of seeing all the ads and tweets and posts about free food from the Malaysian Kitchen truck, I was pretty excited to see that they were spending the week near my office near Herald Square. All week they are serving samples of food from the UWS restaurant Penang, so I stopped by yesterday afternoon to check it out. I was initially put off because of the line. I’d hoped that a dreary day would have scared more people off, but it is free and I was already there, so I stuck around. Turns out that since everyone is getting the same food, the line moved really quickly. I had my food in five minutes.

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Earlier this week we brought you the news that Street Sweets is partnering a number of businesses and bringing free treats to the streets on three different trucks. Yesterday I caught up with Truck #3 (aka the Scharffen Berger Chocolate Adventure wrapped truck) and I have to say, the free chocolate cupcake alone makes it worth checking out.

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Using food trucks as moving billboards is not our favorite thing in the world… unless there’s free food involved!  (What’s that about kicking a gift horse?)  Plus if a little corporate money is what it takes to keep our favorite food trucks in business, I suppose it’s a net positive.  This week Street Sweets is all over the place with 3 different trucks, giving away a ton of free stuff.  On Truck #1 (the original truck) they’ve teamed up with Capital One from October 19th through October 23rd to raise money for the NYC Food Bank.  Buy any item, get your choice of several of their signature sweets for free. Truck #2, a partnership with Seamless Web through Sunday October 24th, will be giving out fortune cookies that have a code in it that can win you great prizes like ipads and stuff. And finally on Wednesday and Thursday Truck #3, a partnership with Scharffen Berger & Food Network Magazine, will be giving away thousands of free cupcakes at locations all over Midtown.

Got all that? A schedule of Midtown locations for all the trucks, broken down by day, is after the jump.

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Great news for anybody who has been eagerly anticipating the launch of the new Korilla BBQ Truck (aka us!)  Not only are they hoping to be in Midtown this Thursday with the truck, but tomorrow they are throwing a launch party at Kum Gang San (49 W. 32nd St.) where they will be giving out free tacos to anybody who knows the secret password:  “Watch Out For the Cops”. The party starts at 7:30pm.

The good news is, starting on Monday (Oct. 11th) the Malaysia Kitchen Food Truck will be driving around town giving away free samples from 9 different local Malaysian restaurants.  Next week there will be a schedule up on their website or you can follow them on Twitter.  The bad news?  According to this, they’ll be using the El Guayaquileño Truck.  Not sure what this means for our fave Ecuadorean food truck (last spotted on 37th and 6th) but at least we’re getting free Malaysian food out of it! The truck will be out Monday-Friday from 11am to 3pm through November 19th.

We haven’t really been covering all the street food news coming out of the Parks Department over the past few months (Tavern on the Green is a bit of a trek for lunch!) but we just got word that tomorrow they’re having some kind of press conference at the Armory in Central Park (on 64th and 5th) where a ton of the new Parks Dept vendors will be giving out free samples- including Calexico, gelato from Otto, pupusas from Red Hook, pretzels from Sigmund’s Pretzel Shop, dosas from NY Dosas, Wafels & Dinges, Pullcart (a new venture between Fatty Crab and Dovetail), and more.  It’s at 11am, slightly out of bounds, we’re not sure how long it’s going to last, and it’s technically a media event (there will be a press conference before the gorging begins), but we’re pretty sure they’re not going to check IDs or turn people away.  Freeloaders engage!