Thiru of NY Dosas won the first place award for best street food vendor for 2007. The awards are a fund raiser for The Street Vendor Project which helps defend and preserve the rights of street vendors. If you saw the first episode of I EAT NY on MNN, we interviewed Thiru back in 2004. I thought it would be fun to revisit that footage and shortened it by a few minutes. I know I could have shortened the new video by at least a minute by removing the part with the lady looking for orange juice, but I just love that moment. I especially love how she's wearing a Dennis Kucinich button. I can't help but wonder if she's wearing it now three...
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Dosa Man Wins but Kwik Meal is the People’s Choice at the 2007 Vendy Awards
The third time was a charm, as Kumar “The Dosa Man” from Washington Sq. Park finally took home the top prize at the Third Annual Vendy Awards this past weekend in Tompkins Sq. Park. Midtown can still hold it’s head up high as the Kwik Meal Cart not only got judge Ed Levine’s vote (you can read his take on the event here), but also won the People’s Choice voting.
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Something strange is afoot in Washington Square Park, good reader: delicious vegan food. Although The Porkchop Express never rarely associates the word “vegan” with “delicious,” Thiru Kumar (the world-famous “Dosa Man”) has forced us to reconsider. Simply put, he serves some of the finest non-meat eats the city has to offer: dosas, to be precise.
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Here’s one you might have gotten to before me: Washington Square Park’s dosa man (near the southwest corner). He’s a devious one, he is: advertising his cuisine as vegan ensures a steady stream of neo-hippie picky-eaters, and having a carton of samosas ready to go at any time will ensure on-the-go snack traffic. I could give a flying cluck about a mock chicken drumstick, though – how are the man’s crepes?
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Vegetarians and meat-eaters alike line up on the south side of Washington Square park during the lunch hour to get a taste of the all-vegan cuisine at this Indian food cart. The dosas which give the pushcart its name -- thin lentil pancakes rolled and stuffed with a variety of fillings -- are cooked to order until deliciously crisp, and served up with coconut chutney and a small dup of dhal, a savory lentil soup, at a cost of 4 or 5 dollars. But the menu doesn't stop there, offering a number of other indian specialties: samosas, spring rolls, lentil doughnuts, and more. For my money, though, the real delicacy isn't even listed at all: ask the vendor for the "veggie drumstick," and for one dollar a piece, he will give you a delicately flavored morsel of home-made soy protein, wrapped around one end of a small stick of sugar cane in imitation of a chicken
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Being runner up for this first "annual" Vendy Award made for a long wait at lunch today at NY Dosa (Washington Square at Sullivan Street). I had a samosa, a veggie chicken leg and masala dosa. That's my dosa cooking below...
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