Eating In Translation

Southeast Asian Water Festival

Pass the baton!

Burma Today Food Fair

Eggs, coconut cream or coconut milk, and butter or ghee all contribute to their richness.

Trini Paki Boys

"There's chicken in that. OK?" At the service of a customer who asked for small orders of okra and chickpeas, the young fellow manning this cart didn't want to cross up a possible vegetarian. (No worries on that score, I assured him.) Indeed, a sizable helping of street meat accompanied firm pods of okra; the chickpeas, layered on rice, were bolstered by potatoes and crunchy cabbage. Both dishes had a hot-pepper edge.

Trini Paki Boys
Cart on West 43rd St. near the southeast corner with Sixth Ave., Manhattan
Weekday lunchtime only

Itizy

Stracciatella, the soup, features wisps of egg suspended in broth. The namesake frozen confection breaks down chocolate chips into more granular form and incorporates them in a vanilla base; this street truck adds an aromatic note. Mint stracciatella ice cream (small, $4.25).

Itizy
Truck parked, this evening, on Broadway near 112th St., Manhattan
www.Itizy.com

Brooklyn Pretzel Factory

(This venue is closed.) I prefer rounder loops, for no reason I can put my finger on except custom; the narrow shape of this bakery's wares ($1.50) probably helps with the shipment of wholesale orders. Otherwise, that "A" — an accidental squiggle in brown mustard — is on the mark. Egg creams, lime rickeys also available.

Brooklyn Pretzel Factory
7504 Fifth Ave. (75th-76th Sts.), Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
718-439-5100
www.BKPretzels.com

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Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
718-745-6980

Deccan Spice

Scrambled eggs, Hyderabad style: anda bhurji ($6.99), zinged with well-chopped curry leaves, green chilis, and onion. The menu of Deccan Spice (which opened in mid-2012 at the address and with the phone number of the former Baba Hut) is not exclusively Hyderabadi. It does, however, offer paya, bagara baingan, the desserts qubani ka meetha and double ka meetha, and eight biryanis. Except for the weekend-only "country chicken" biryani, all are on the daily menu.

Also shown: a flag bearer from that afternoon's small Indo-American Parade.

Deccan Spice
771 Newark Ave. (John F. Kennedy Blvd.-Tonnele Ave.), Jersey City
201-604-1772
www.Deccan-Spice.com

Dough Nation

The fresh lemon is sliced extra-thin.

Gelatina cart

Basic one-dollar Mexican gelatinas, which typically are prepared from packaged mixes. More-elaborate renditions might add nuts, or mix variously colored cubes in what appears to be a creamy base, though this is generally gelatized, too.

From a showcase that also included vanilla, chocolate, grape, lime, and pistachio, among many other choices, I went for the strawberry, which had the color if not the full flavor of Bonomo.

Gelatina cart
East 116th St. near the southwest corner with First Ave., Manhattan
Encountered on a weekend afternoon; hours unknown

Mike's Donuts & Coffee

I favor the four-in-hand, but tying that knot requires much thinner material. Glazed bowtie ($1).

Mike's Donuts & Coffee
6822 Fifth Ave. (68th St.-Bay Ridge Ave.), Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
718-745-6980