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I'm not sure what's
up with Greeks and their Uncles. In fact the whole uncle concept is
kind of creepy. There was a time when I thought eating food that was
cooked in a truck was creepy too, but I've gotten over it. And while
most of the stuff I tend to order from street meat carts and trucks
is Mediterranean in nature, it 's almost exclusively from the other
side of the Mediterranean. So I was excited to see that they had Greek
out there for our Midtown consumption, and shouldn't have been surprised
to find out that Greek chicken over rice is almost exactly the same
as Halal chicken over rice. Granted these guys tend to salt their
chicken a bit more, add a little more char and cut them in larger
chunks, but when it's all thrown together it had a very similar feel.
The thing I do like over its competitors is that nice black that coats
the chicken and the thickness of the sauce that is less sauce and
more tzatziki (which is, for all my clueless friends, a yogurt-based
topping with cucumber and garlic and whatnot). Of course they don't
use authentic tzatziki, as it would be tough to suit that shit out
of the old-fashioned ketchup bottle that all street vendors tend to
use. That all said, I wasn't as thrilled with the outcome of the platter
as I had hope, as it looked like it was gonna really kick ass, but
it was certainly tasty enough (and cheap enough at $5) to make me
want to go back to the islands for another go 'round with somebody's
uncle. [MF]
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