Pasha’s

I eat street cart vendor food pretty often. I trust the quality of halal food because of the religious requirements in food preparation.
I found this place like months ago. He is generally on William Street in front of Chase Plaza on weekdays, and then moves to Wall Street in front of the Trump building (40 Wall) on weekends.
The food portion is generous, and the price is among the best in the area. Food is always good. He uses special seasonings on the salad portion which really keep me coming back.
The yogurt sauce is rich, and the rice and veggies are great.
So…i keep going back to him, ordering two plates at a time. And he and his brother are really nice guys too. Very friendly, so smile and order!

Some of the worst cihken/​gyro and rice i have eaten. They give you a decent sized portion, but it is also more expensive then other places… 8 dollars.
Some things about it:
The veggies were not fresh at all especially the tomatoes… gross.
The gyro meat comes made to order from frozen pieces.
The hot sauce doesn’t contain any heat to it. i ordered it with extra extra hot sauce after i saw it coming out of the container. And even though its not hot it does have a slight tangyness to it… ive seen it served at other gyro places but this one was still watered down from that stuff.
I bit into a couple hard things in the chicken. not sure what it was.
The sausages looked good. should have gone with the sausages.

Very good. Not the best rice in the area, but almost and a great chicken curry. Also, extremely affordable and Pasha is super nice. When I got transferred back to Wall St after time in midtown this was my first stop and it’ll be my last when I have to leave again.

After noticing some guy ordering slices of sausage on a hot dog bun, I was quite curious as to what it was. I didn’t quite find out, but on the menu, I saw Curry Chicken and Rice ($ 5.00), which I was in the mood for. I watched as the man prepared a couple scoops of rice, some salad, and a ladle used to take the curry chicken out from some soupy concoction. Interesting enough I rushed back to the office to dig in.
Inside the plastic bag, was a plastic fork, spoon, and wad of napkins. The spoon was interesting and I wasn’t quite sure why he had given me one until I opened up my Styrofoam tray. The tray was divided into 3 sections: salad, chicken, and rice. Because of all the space the 3 sections took, portions were a bit less than usual. The salad consisted of chopped lettuce, sliced tomatoes, and sliced raw carrots sitting in a pool of some type of ever-​so-​slightly creamy but vinaigrette-​based sauce. Salad was fresh, and the vinaigrette was definitely a fresh take on the typical boring salads that every other street cart tends to do. The chicken also sat in its own section of the tray, doused in a pool of sauce which consisted mostly of oil (grease). Yuck! Besides the grease, the chicken was very tender and juicy. The curry chicken would just break apart as I dug my fork into it, and I almost did not have to even bite into it, as it broke apart in my mouth, which I’m attributing to the chicken being stewed for several hours to get so soft. The spices on the chicken were subtle but amped up the flavor a bit, but I would have preferred for it to be more noticaeble. The yellow rice was the biggest disappointment to this dish, as it was a bit mushy and bland.
The white sauce was fashioned more towards a mayo consistency, was tasty but the hot sauce was on the opposite end of the spectrum. The hot sauce was in liquid form, similar to Red Devil or Tobasco sauce, but with hardly any heat. I think I could have drowned my chicken and rice with it and still would not have noticed any heat to the dish.
If you’re considering this dish, the curry chicken was the biggest highlight of the dish, stewed chicken that would almost melt in your mouth; followed by the vinaigrette sauce on the salad. But besides that, I just found this dish to be way too greasy. By the time I finished, my mouth and face felt greasy, as was the tray which was covered in orange grease. Eeeek.

Ever since discovering this truck 4 years ago, I’ve been a Pasha’s regular, coming here at least every other week when working in the neighborhood. You can’t miss it on William Street right off the steps coming down from the plaza at 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza.
What distinguishes Pasha’s from most other street carts is that they make everything to order (if you see 5 people in line, you could be waiting 10 – 15 minutes). The lamb and steak are pretty good, but are basically the standard stuff from the package that every cheap diner has. The curry chicken was profiled in the Midtown lunch blog, and was given a lukewarm rating. As for me, I’d say go with the Chicken and Rice special. Unlike most other carts where the chicken has been sitting out on the gridle all day and is quite dry by the time you get it, Pasha’s uses their own spice recipe (I’ve seen it raw in the plastic containers they take from the cooler in their van), sears it in the morning, but then chops and cooks to perfection to order for you. As a result, their chicken is much more moist and flavorful than any other chicken you’ll get anywhere else. It’s pretty greasy overall, but definitely much easier on the stomach than any other trucks I’ve tried, including the famous ones around 53^rd and 6^th.
After you become a regular and they recognize you, you’ll be greeted with a hearty «What’s happening Brotha Man!!!»