Do You Love White Sauce? Pasha’s Might Just Be Your Favorite Cart

I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve walked by Pasha’s street meat cart in front of the Chase Manhattan Building on William St. (btw. Liberty & Cedar). In addition to the street meat, they also sell hamburgers and almost always have a special of curry chicken over rice on tap.

When a hankering for some street meat hit, I decided to finally fulfill my curiosity about how theirs stacks up, and find an interesting cooking method at play at Pasha’s. Let’s just say if you really like white sauce, this is your cart.

First, I’m just going to go ahead and say I kind of hate it when carts obliterate your food with white sauce. I want to be able to taste the meat and not just a mouthful of a mayo-based concoction with something salty underneath! I nearly always ask for “a little bit” of white sauce, which is translated differently from cart to cart. At Pasha’s that meant not only squirting some on the yellow rice after it was dished up, but also onto the lamb as it was cooking on the flat top, and then again after it was placed in the container. I also got a healthy amount of the thin, vinegar-based hot sauce applied, but it was almost entirely drowned out by the white sauce.

The lamb was your standard gyro meat, not particularly crispy, but not awful. The rice here was pretty great though – not greasy yet flavorful even without white or hot sauce help.

I’m not really sure what the best thing to order at Pasha’s is, but maybe it’s best to stick to a burger? They also had some interesting sausages stacked up on the flat top that didn’t look like hot dogs, but my food was dished up so quickly I didn’t get a chance to ask what they were. There’s always a next time.

And if you’re a white sauce enthusiast, you’ll definitely get your fix at this cart.

Pasha’s Cart, William St. btw. Liberty & Cedar streets

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