Tasty Street Food- what are your favourites?
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miss direct
misfungled
Here in Poland the only street food I have is zakipanka, which is a french bread pizza with loads of mushrooms on top, usually with garlic sauce.
In the train stations you can get grilled pitta bread (it's not really pitta but it's as close as you get in Poland) stuffed with loads of salad and a choice of sauces.
In Wolverhampton there's an Indian food stall where you can get chicken curry, rice and salad in a tray for about £2.20. Bloody gorgeous.
In the train stations you can get grilled pitta bread (it's not really pitta but it's as close as you get in Poland) stuffed with loads of salad and a choice of sauces.
In Wolverhampton there's an Indian food stall where you can get chicken curry, rice and salad in a tray for about £2.20. Bloody gorgeous.
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
Chinese fried dough sticks are absolutely lush.
Chinese fried dough sticks are absolutely lush.
you can buy them from the streets, but don't eat them in the street though.
Hoss
...It was the blurst of times...
Soft flour tacos from the taco stand near the harbour on Isla Mujeres, Yucutan, Mexico.
$1 a piece, they come with either carne asada (grilled beef)/ pollo (chicken) / or pastor (pork) to which you then add your own guacamole, salsa and salad.
For the love of god they are so damn good. The shop next door, that owned the stand, also sold ice cold 40oz Tecate beers for a $1 a piece
I would sit there each day for lunch munching tacos washed down with ice cold beer until I fell of my seat through sheer gluttony.
$1 a piece, they come with either carne asada (grilled beef)/ pollo (chicken) / or pastor (pork) to which you then add your own guacamole, salsa and salad.
For the love of god they are so damn good. The shop next door, that owned the stand, also sold ice cold 40oz Tecate beers for a $1 a piece
I would sit there each day for lunch munching tacos washed down with ice cold beer until I fell of my seat through sheer gluttony.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Dosa. Why aren't there masala dosa stands all over London?
moonsi til
worked it out now!
I ate delicious veg rotis in Sri Lanka but have also enjoyed the wonder of the men with big pots at Indian train stations. I generally did not know what I was buying but it was always veggie and very tasty. I liked joining the lunch workers for a street Thali when I was in Delhi.
I also like a veg cornish pasty and french crepes filled with cheese and spinach.
I also like a veg cornish pasty and french crepes filled with cheese and spinach.
maomao
普費斯
'Chuan' not 'quan'. Or foreigners in a queue as the riddle goes.
*Slaps RD's wrist*
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
I love my middle eastern streetfood stuff.
Falafel - needs no introduction
Kofte - very similar to the corn dog, but has spiced mincemeat inside
Borek - like the baklava but with savoury stuff inside the tubes. More addictive than crack.
Falafel - needs no introduction
Kofte - very similar to the corn dog, but has spiced mincemeat inside
Borek - like the baklava but with savoury stuff inside the tubes. More addictive than crack.
Sri Lankan treats are often hot as hell- even the veggie samosa/ rotis! Sooooo much chilli!
Also Ive had gorgeous fruit by the side of the various roads- scarred, blemished green oranges that looked most unpromising but were as sweet as heaven, and beautiful pineapple sliced and enjoyed by the side of the road.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Yes, DDD is right, borek rocks 
It seems all the best street food is furrin. In fact, what are our native streetfoods? What would have been sold at country fayres in medieval times, or at Victorian street markets?
ETA: pies it seems: http://historictravel.suite101.com/article.cfm/british_food_meat_pies_for_all
It seems all the best street food is furrin. In fact, what are our native streetfoods? What would have been sold at country fayres in medieval times, or at Victorian street markets?
ETA: pies it seems: http://historictravel.suite101.com/article.cfm/british_food_meat_pies_for_all
I plead innocence as every other foreigner I've seen write it, has written it with a q!
I shall also nominate the paninis in Paris. When I lived there they were only 2 quid. Much better than crappy crepes!
Thats içli kofte, there are about a bazillion other kinds as well, as there are with borek. My mother in law makes borek with what turned out to be cannabis seed in it.
Confusingly, there are several types of Börek/Burek.
The one you're talking about more closely resembles the Balkan-style Burek which consists of layers of pastry, potato and meat and/or cheese which are grasy fried and delicious. I had my favourite one of these in Sibenik bus station in Croatia. A cheese and potato of grease is superb breakfast.
The Turkish-style Sigari Börek is a fried pastry tube filled with stuff, usually cheese.
edit: doubtless there are loads more, AFAIK it's a popular snack throughout the former Ottoman empire and probably beyond, with variants aplenty.
the bloody wonderful nasi goreng anywhere in Indo. mmmmmMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Gotta be the Jeema-El-Fna in Marrakesh, saying that, pretty much everywhere in Morocco we went was good quality great tasting food. Cheap as well. Although im sure we got ripped of once or twice.
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