Popular Street Food in Different Country

In this blog, I am going to research the street food cultural around the world. Food and travel, one of life's great experience intersections. We do usually enjoy our share of beautiful dishes and cuisine, and elaborate meals at famous restaurants, but it is often our street food quests -- raw on the ground journeys that convey authenticity -- that yield some of life's most revealing moments and enlighten us in unexpected ways. 

Most of believed that street food is the heart of the International cuisine. Those always the comfort foods we crave at midnight, when the restaurants are all closed.

Also, I list three ways which exploring street food quests serve.

1. They take us further

Using the street food dish we seek as the final destination. We walk or use public transport, our quest for the ultimate dumpling, bean soup, taco or curry becomes an adventure in itself, with the meal as the goal, but the journey as the unexpected payoff.

2. They take us deeper

Street food is remarkably democratic, for we all need to eat. Local people and land the holy grail of authentic local interaction (i.e., outside of tourism and service professionals) is by sharing a plastic table, communal condiments, and a bit of conversation.

In any event, we find that almost everyone enjoys sharing their local cuisine with visitors. Therefore, they also help us exercise our language skills.

3. They teach us how simple it is to cook

Since we are so close to the cooking stove, street food shows all the steps. Street food cooks offer the opportunity — for us to get a firsthand sense and preparation of our local dishes so close. After we have witnessed a taste dish emerge from a gas stove and a kitchen equipped with only basic tools, we begin to understand the great lessons about cooking.

Let's go grab a spoon, and get ready to dig in....

Hong Kong: Dim Sum  

Dim sum is a traditional Cantonese cuisine, prepared and served as individual, bite-sized. It is a special and local food in south part of China and Hong Kong. The words “dim sum” translates on words mean “touch the heart” (because the bites were so small they would only touch the heart) and, today, it is a staple of Cantonese dining. Dim sum dishes range across the board and include things like shrimp dumplings, vermicelli rolls, barbecue pork buns and spare ribs.

Thailand: Khao Soi  

It’s soft and yellow egg noodles bathed in a thick curry broth. Not soup. Broth. It is then topped with deep-fried, crispy egg noodles, and eaten with pickled greens on the side. The broth is coconut milk-based and the curry can either be cooked with chicken, pork, or beef. Beef is my favorite kind of Khao Soi, especially the ones prepared by the Thai Muslim women in Chiang Mai’s Muslim area along Chang Klan Road.

Turkey: Turkish Hamsi 

As the hamsi (anchovies) swarm the Black Sea towards the Bosphorus Strait each winter, Turkish fishermen drop their nets. On any winter arrival in Istanbul, the first thing we do is head for Karaköy fish market for the perfect street food, Hamsi Ekmek. The anchovies are deep fried and served with rocket leaves and thinly sliced onion in a fresh, crusty bread.