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Queens food vendors took home the top prizes at the 2017 Vendy Awards.
Queens food vendors
win top honors at
Vendy Awards 2017
BY ANGELA MATUA
amatua@qns.com / @AngelaMatua
Queens food vendors dish out some of
the best meals in the borough, and this
year’s Vendy Awards confi rmed that by
awarding two popular food trucks.
Th e annual street food competition
began in 2005 and attendees are treated
to bites from 25 food trucks. Th e proceeds
benefi t the Street Vendor Project,
a nonprofi t that advocates for the rights
of vendors, many of whom are immigrants.
On Sept. 16, street food vendors gathered
at Governors Island to cook everything
from tamales to Chinese-style
barbecue skewers and Russian dumplings.
Th e winners for the fi ve categories
— Vendy Cup, Bad Hombre, Best
Rookie Vendor, Best Market Vendor
and Best Dessert Vendor — were chosen
by attendees and a panel of celebrity
judges. Attendees also awarded the
People’s Choice vendor.
Husband-and-wife duo Jesse Vasquez
and Marilyn Hernandez, who were both
born and raised in Long Island City,
won the Best Market Vendor for their
shop What’s the Dillaz. Th ough they
have day jobs — Vasquez is a chef at
Mom’s Kitchen & Bar in Astoria and
Hernandez is a paralegal — their take on
quesadillas got them the top prize.
If you’re in the mood for a burger or
Reuben or Cuban sandwich in quesadilla
form, visit What’s the Dillaz at LIC
Flea at 5-25 46th Ave. every Saturday
and Sunday.
Th e Best Rookie Vendor award also
went to a Queens-based food truck.
Momo Bros, which serves Himalayanstyle
dumplings at 73rd Street and
Broadway in Jackson Heights was founded
in 2016. Pasang Th inlay, a Tibetan
refugee who emigrated to America from
Nepal when he was 15, opened the food
truck aft er gaining cooking experience
at a number of restaurants.
Momo Bros’ specialty is the jhol
momo, a Nepalese soup dumpling that is
not commonly found in New York City.