When people visit New York they often make a hoo-ha about those crazy vendors with their hot dogs, shiny steel carts and brouhaha on the sidewalks. It's hip to be seen eating one of those meals with sauce dripping from your mouth.Over here it's not done to buy food from a humble road vendor or, in local parlance, a pavement special. But we need to get over ourselves, and if it's modest, fragrant, home-made Cape food you're after, go to Wardia Cornelius, who sells ambrosia on Rose Street in the Bo-Kaap.Eat it there or farther up in one of the cobbled side-streets, or the little park. Absorb the old-world atmosphere, because once Woodstock has been wrecked by gentrification, this area is next.You can get anything: samoosas filled with her old Cape family's secret ingredients; vetkoek , overflowing with hot curry; rotis, koeksusters and milk tarts .On Fridays there are huge pots of breyani, vegetarian curries, you name it. The street is alive with zing and spices. A regular from Dubai often smuggles some of her delights back home.Recently a woman bought oodles of food for one of Donald Trump's visiting sons, a fan."Halliehaa!" she says. "And to think I didn't even know who his father is." Precisely.Wardia Easy Food, Rose Street, 072-268-5287, Monday to Saturday, 8am to 2pm..