The truck shares its fenced-in corner lot with a half-dozen chairs, simply for customers to rest their feet; Puerto Rican pastelillos and alcapurrias are eminently suited to stand-up eating.
The casing of the torpedo-shaped alcapurria de carne (first two photos below; $1.50) is deep-fried yet unusually supple; inside is a ground-beef picadillo, something like a sweet sloppy joe. The pastelillos, which at a glance resemble empanadas filled with jueyes, pollo, or carrucho (crab, chicken, or conch, shown in that order; $1.50 to $2.50), are as delicate and flaky as any in the city.
Mama Isabel's Place
Truck parked in the lot at Prospect Ave. and 156th St., Woodstock, Bronx
10:30-7:00; closed Monday
Shuttered roughly from Thanksgiving through March
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