Tasty Street Food- what are your favourites?

[perplexis]

*drools*
WANT vadas right now!

 

[Sweet FA]

Deep fried Cuy is delicious. It's just like fried chicken!

Perhaps I got a bad one then; bitter as fuck imo

Agreed about the insects though - deep fried grasshoppers in Mexico were well tasty if you didn't look at what you're eating...

 

[Lea]

Lentil dumplings and pakora from this place in Jaipur, India. The owner (with the tache) told me his family have been cooking the same street food there for 4 generations. It was incredible, huge queues of knowledgable locals very time I went there.

Pakora is lovely. I had them in Calcutta.

 

[Melinda]

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.

Thanks for the explanation Perplexis. It totally makes sense now! Nom nom borekas!

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Will you stop encouraging the people with the deep fried rodents and cockroaches though?

 

[rutabowa]

it is a little-known fact that the break up of yugoslavia was caused by an argument of which country produced the best burek

 

[chilango]

Some from Mexico:

Esquites

Elotes
oops pic was huge, sorry.

Tamales

 

[perplexis]

Mmm tamales, joder que rico son!

 

[fractionMan]

Seen these deep fried insects in Thailand and Laos but didnt dare try them.

I did!

Taste like liver flavoured popcorn imo.

 

[Sweet FA]

Empanadas in Colombia - stuffed with seafood on the coast or meat further south. Most delicious when served on a bus during a random stop at some roadside stall in the middle of the night.

 

[Melinda]

Anyone ever got ill from eating street food?
I always go for the if its smoking hot it probably wont kill me option.

A mate had a luke warm shwarma from the bus station in Be'er Sheva and chucked his guts up for days.

 

[chilango]

More from Mexico...

Tortas

Tacos

Pozole

 

[perplexis]

This thread makes me hungry. I love it.
But I want to go back to Mexico!

 

[chilango]

Anyone ever got ill from eating street food?
I always go for the if its smoking hot it probably wont kill me option.

A mate had a luke warm shwarma from the bus station in Be'er Sheva and chucked his guts up for days.

IME its better than mid range resaurants.

If you can watch the fodd cooked in front of you you're usually allright.

I've never been ill from street food yet.

 

[chilango]

...yet more from Mexico (surely the world capital of street food?)

Gorditas

Sopes

Quesadillas

Note deep fried quesadillas are most common.

Tacos al Pastor

 

[Melinda]

IME its better than mid range resaurants.

If you can watch the fodd cooked in front of you you're usually allright.

I've never been ill from street food yet.

I totally agree and its how I keep safe from tummy bugs.

The Mexican food you've put up looks SO damn good.

What is that shwarma looking kebab thing in your final picture? Obviously the spicing has to be different from similar food in the middle east. What does it taste like and how is it served? It looks too too good.

 

[gloom monger]

Seen these deep fried insects in Thailand and Laos but didnt dare try them.

they were like crunchy oil

 

[chilango]

I totally agree and its how I keep safe from tummy bugs.

The Mexican food you've put up looks SO damn good.

What is that shwarma looking kebab thing in your final picture? Obviously the spicing has to be different from similar food in the middle east. What does it taste like and how is it served? It looks too too good.

Tacos al Pastor are basically kebabs. Spiced chile meat of some sort served in small soft corn tortillas with bits of pineapple, cheese, chiles onions etc. 3 for 50p normally. The guy carves up bits of the meat just like in a kebab and occasionally lops off a bit of pineapple from the top too.

 

[perplexis]

*salivates more*
Damn this thread. Damn it for making want to fly all over the world pillaging street food wherever I land...

 

[chilango]

In about 30 minutes I'm off for a cheese, egg and refried bean torta.