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1. 

   wayne:

   3. Northern Chinese Meat On A Stick
   4. Stroopwafels
   5. Rollmops

   Apr 29th 2009 at 4:40 pm
2. 

   ESNY:

   Real tacos
   Ess-a-bagels

   Apr 29th 2009 at 4:43 pm
3. 

   adamprato:

   1. Haggis (I felt compelled to list this in response to balut above).

   Actually, I'd think we could use more chinese carts. It can't be that hard to make General Tso's from a cart.

   A deli cart would be somewhat interesting.

   Apr 29th 2009 at 5:44 pm
4. 

   Cosilicious:

   I want a BBQ cart! with BBQ chicken, corn on the cob, watermelon, baked beans, cole slaw and lemonade, potato salad, maybe even strawberry shortcake. Sure, we have the Zigolini's outdoor BBQ in the summer (downtown), but what's better than chicken from a street cart?

   Yes! to the chinese cart. A chinese dim sum cart. I know we have the Rickshaw Dumpling cart but I want an authentic dim sum cart with sesame balls, chicken feet, pork dumplings, tea, lotus leaf-wrapped packets of rice and chicken...

   And you can't go wrong with a Thai cart either as other posters have noted. satay, pad thai, spring rolls, meat on sticks can't be beat!

   Apr 30th 2009 at 11:24 am
5. 

   Goats:

   Papa Perrone's is doing it today, but I've been a big supporter of NYC's own Rutgers "Fat" Truck!

   Apr 30th 2009 at 12:06 pm
6. 

   AL@1PP:

   The problem with carts, generally, is that once you get your food, there's no place to eat it. The sidewalks are crowded, it's hard to even stand still for 10 minutes, so whatever you get off the cart you gotta bring it somewhere or eat and walk. What I want to see if a cart setup shop somewhere on a large plaza, or something, set up tables and chairs, and run the cart cafeteria style with a wait service. you can serve more food that's not just fried whatever, with rice. This kind of setup would work nicely when they close off broadway to cars in the times sq area.

   Everyone who loves carts should go to HK at least once. See how it's really done.

   Apr 30th 2009 at 12:44 pm
7. 

   wayne:

   Al - I clipped this from a NY Times article last year for just such times as when you get cart food and need a place to set up shop & wolf it down:

   LITTLE-KNOWN REFUGES

   GREENACRE PARK, East 51st Street between Second and Third Avenues, north side.

   PALEY PARK, East 53rd Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues, north side.

   1251 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, from West 49th to West 50th Street between Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue.

   SONY PLAZA, from East 55th to East 56th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues.

   SUTTON PLACE PARK, at the far end of East 57th Street (and other streets).

   TUDOR CITY GREENS, above East 42nd Street between First and Second Avenues; climb the stairs from 42nd or enter directly from East 41st Street or East 43rd between Second Avenue and Tudor City Place.

   WORLDWIDE PLAZA, enter at either West 49th Street or West 50th between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.

   Apr 30th 2009 at 1:13 pm
8. 

   Cosilicious:

   Nice! And for downtown, one of my favorite refuges is the Elevated Acre above 55 Water Street.

   http://www.yelp.com/biz/elevated-acre-at-55-water-street-new-york

   Apr 30th 2009 at 2:52 pm
9. 

   Zach Brooks:

   I think a Pad Thai cart would be at the top of my list... right after a David Chang pork bun cart.

   Apr 30th 2009 at 3:43 pm
10. 

    Jamie:

    takoyaki! It would be easy to do also, Otakufu downtown barely takes up more space than a truck.

    Apr 30th 2009 at 4:01 pm
11. 

    talida:

    Indian food! Whatever happened to these carts? http://midtownlunch.com/2007/03/22/two-indian-food-carts-one-block-of-midtown/ Anyone know of new ones?

    May 1st 2009 at 9:26 am
12. 

    Yvo:

    Cosilicious, we clearly work near each other, but if you keep giving away the best spots, I may have to put a hit out on you! ;)

    PS I have a friend who has been talking about opening up a (real) Thai food cart for a year now, but isn't sure there's a market for it. I keep telling her there is... I need your help to convince her!

    May 4th 2009 at 10:29 am
13. 

    Cosilicious:

    @Yvo - consider it done! I thought about keeping the Elevated Acre to myself, but at least it's still in the ML family. and of course there's always the public space at 60 Wall Street, and the public atrium at 180 Maiden Lane. Another lunch spot secret - if you have a lot of time for lunch - take the free Staten Island ferry over and back. Nice in the summer.

    May 4th 2009 at 1:31 pm

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