Midtown Lunch

Can I get mine without the twig? Courtesy of Eater NY.

• The chicken may trump the beef at the $5 Lunch Truck. [Me So Hungry]
• The Frying Dutchman truck enters the fray next week selling frites. [Village Voice]
• Soy custard is dirt cheap at Tung Woo. [Bionic Bites]
• Another look at Oxley’s Carvery’s sandwiches, which are “acceptably tasty.” [Lunch Studio]
• The Burger Shoppe’s mac & cheese burger may not be as you envisioned. [Feisty Foodie]
• A look at the $20 Eater Burger Week submission from SHO. [Eater NY]

At first when I saw this in the forums I got excited that someone was finally going to start serving breakfast banh mi. (Seriously: Pate, pork sausage patties, some pickled veggies, maybe some egg – somebody needs to make this happen!). But a walk past the No. 1 Banh Mi cart on Hanover Sq. (at Pearl) revealed a sign that said starting Monday they will be dumplings, sweet buns and coffee and tea in the morning. If anyone tries this out let us all know how it is!

Hot dogs are one food that I normally don’t crave come lunchtime since about the only offerings near where I work are the dirty water variety sold primarily to tourists. When I saw that Brooklyn Flea favorite Asiadog had opened a brick and mortar shop on Kenmare St. (btw. Mott & Mulberry) serving hot dogs, corn dogs and a few sandwiches and sides I knew that was I ever in the area I would be going there. Why? Because they have hot dogs topped with banh mi fixin’s, pork belly and potato chips, that’s why. Read more »

I’m still confused about what Mozilla Firefox has to do with Coolhaus ice cream sandwiches, but whatever, free food on Friday! They’ll be at Grand & Lafayette Crosby from noon to 4 p.m. serving “flavors” like the Beta and Foxy Brown. The truck will be out and about this weekend and then is parking at Madison Square Park on Monday. Consider this your free preview before the L.A. phenomenon finally puts its two trucks on the road here in NYC.

If you work near City Hall or the other government buildings nearby I feel sort of bad for you (only sort of because you have Chinatown nearby), but soon you’ll have another cheap lunch option. A post in the forums alerted me to a 99 cent pizza place going in on Broadway near Canal. A walk up there revealed Roll And Go opening at Broadway & Franklin selling $1 pizza slices among an odd assortment of other foods (falafel, tortillas and bagels!). As far as I know it’s the first $1 slice place below Canal other than Papa John’s.