Street Cart · Chicken and Rice Platter
Halal Cart Chicken and Rice
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The best-known cart, the Halal Guys at 53rd and 6th, started out selling hot dogs in 1990 and switched to chicken and rice to feed Muslim taxi drivers.
Griddled seasoned chicken and gyro meat are piled over yellow rice with shredded lettuce and tomato, then finished with hot sauce and a tangy white sauce and boxed to go. Halal carts parked on Manhattan corners, most famously near 53rd and 6th, serve it late into the night.
Why it's made this way: Immigrant halal vendors, many from Egypt and the wider Muslim world, built this platter for New York's taxi drivers and night-shift workers starting in the 1990s, and it's since become one of the city's defining modern street foods.
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