Hassan Achmad sells Halal food from a cart near the corner of 31st Street and 7th Avenue by Madison Square Garden. The menu, which features standbys such as falafel, chicken, and lamb, doesn’t appear to have a particular national identity, but Achmad cooks his yellow rice with salt, black pepper, rosemary, and a little sugar, ingredients he would use in his native Morocco. Speaking in a mixture of French and English, Achmad said he hopes to study business here and become an investor. After he made a chicken and lamb sandwich on a pita, I asked him if he had any investment ideas as yet. “J’imagine,” he said, a sentence that, in this city, needs almost no translation.
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