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 years later.
These days, Thiru's dosas are just a buck more ($6) and he has an assistant who helps with the money and ordering. The food is still terrific. Brian got the rava dosa and I got the special pondicherry dosa. Both come with the coconut chutney and the lentil and tomato soup, sambhar.
Even though things change so quickly here in the big city, it's nice to know that some things don't.
1 comment:
I shot that.
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