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Originally Posted by proghousehead
Chopped cheese for NYC. The Yemeni bodegas created that shit and it’s awesome. Also halal chicken and rice; made by Muslim immigrants - a righteous staple of New York cuisine.
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Chopped cheese is known in NYC, especially uptown, and the Halal Guys now pretty famous (though I always get the lamb).
But in terms of popularity and association with NYC, I still wouldn’t put either ahead of NY style pizza, deli stapes (my favorite being pastrami on rye), Jewish appetizing (bagels and lox aren’t the same elsewhere) or the ubiquitous bodega bacon, egg & cheese.