Ashley King

Fighting through the spring crowds at the Union Square Greenmarket (those are MY ramps!) can induce serious hunger. On your next visit, look out for the bags of salty potato chips at the Mountain Sweet Berry Farm stand, one of the market's best snacks.

The delicate chips, made from German butterball potatoes, are the creation of company founder Rick Bishop, a salt-of-the-earth farmer and favorite supplier for many of the city's chefs, including Dan Barber, Wylie Dufresne, and David Bouley.

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You read it right -- pastrami sandwiches for only $2.50 each.

A street cart parked at the southeast corner of 72nd Street and Broadway, the crossroads of the Upper West Side, has started outflanking area delis by offering a hot pastrami sandwich at the incredible price of $2.50. Typical pastrami sandwich cost in the neighborhood: $15.

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Finally, a pad thai that kicks your ass.

Pad thai is one of those dishes to be instinctively avoided. Even at great Thai restaurants, the cooks switch into gringo mode and turn out an indifferent heap of pale rice noodles that's invariably bland and way too sweet. But then last Friday evening a group of revelers, after bar-hopping in Williamsburg, stumbled on the Rhong-Tiam cart at the corner of Bedford and Metropolitan, which rose up from the thick fog like an apparition.

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On Saturday, food lovers lined up on Governors Island for the Vendy Awards, an annual street-food celebration and benefit organized by the Urban Justice Center. The non-profit works to support city vendors, providing access to licenses and advocating for vendor rights.

This year's judges included Food & Wine restaurant editor Kate Krader, the Das Racist crew, and chef/TV personality Eddie Huang. Below, a look at the winners plus a few highlights:

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Patty's Taco Truck's fully loaded tlaycoyo

Tlaycoyo, from an Nahuatl Indian word, is a central Mexican street food consisting of an oblong slab of masa dough that has been stuffed with a layer of crushed beans and cooked on a comal - a flat or sometimes slightly concave griddle.

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Melanie Wood, CNNgo

Journalist Lydia Tomkiw visits a night market in northern Jakarta and reports for CNNgo on the handful of cobra blood vendors who bleed the snakes for locals and tourists, and sometimes mix their blood with alcohol as a cocktail.

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John Thomson

Remember Hangover Heaven, the mobile "clinic" treating hangovers in Vegas for $90 a pop? Let's take a moment to admire the original hangover-cure pushers and street-meat vendors of London. The photos are by John Thomson, a Scottish photojournalist who paired with radical journalist Adolphe Smith to produce a monthly magazine covering London's working class, Street Life in London. When their series was published as a book in 1877, it immediately became a bestseller.

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Clarissa Wei

Lobster roll from Luke's Lobster, $8

The Hester Street Fair kicked off Saturday with a solid turnout and an amazing selection of vendors. We got to the Lower East Side around noon, and though there was a crowd beginning to form, the area was definitely still navigable.

No worries if you missed out on the opening-day festivities. Located on the corner of Hester and Essex, the street fair will be here for New Yorkers until October 27. There's a good mix of vintage antique stores and food vendors--but be warned, the foot traffic tends to gravitate toward the food.

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A string of nine armed robberies in Queens, mostly along Junction and Queens boulevards, has the New York City Police Department keeping a careful eye on food carts along major thoroughfares in the borough -- the target of eight of those stickups (the ninth victim was a livery cab driver). Most of the victims have been Asian males between the ages of 37 and 55, and the robberies occurred between Friday, March 2, and Saturday, March 10.

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Right half of the line, Smorgasburg at the Brooklyn Flea, Williamsburg, Saturday, 3:15 p.m. (Click on image to enlarge.)

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