That's not the fast track.
Apart from a T-shirt vendor who also sold sliced mango and pineapple, this stand served the only food at Ecuafest — hence the line. (Apart from a small stage with seating, set up inside the oval at the Armory Track and Field Center, the balance of the 2008 festival amounted to a handful of tables for a telecom, a real estate company, a health-care provider, and the like.)
Most of those folks were waiting for the roast pork plate, with rice, oversized kernels of corn, and carvings from a whole (but well-concealed and unphotogenic) pig. The folks in the much shorter line on the left had their eyes on chow that's even more humble: salchipapas ($5), deep-fried franks and thick-cut potatoes that are a common street food in Ecuador and Peru, where they're dressed with a variety of sauces. Here they were heavily salted, then adorned, simply, with gobs of ketchup and mayo.
Ecuadorian Independence Festival
The Armory Track and Field Center, 216 Fort Washington Ave. (at 168th St.)
Late May
