Street Food - love it or hate it?
 

I am a huge foodie, and I travel to experience the food as much as the culture. :D

But what do you think of street food?

Which country or region has the best street food of all?

I reckon South Korea and Japan have some pretty awesome street food, especially the takoyaki and yaki imo from Japan, as well as the hotbap and tteokbokki from Seoul. ^

Tacos al pastor

MMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I love street food and want to go to a bunch of places just to try out what the locals eat.

From the Philippines my favorite street food is the fish balls with the sweet and sour sauce. I could eat so many of them because they're just so cheap.

I travel to solely experience the local cuisine as well!

I love street food but you have to be daring in some dishes. A good iron stomach as well. Good thing I grew up in Asia haha.

Korean dishes are awesome like tteok(?), jokbal, or soondae.

YES. Kwek-kwek is so good.

I've never had kwek-kwek! I have to try it whenever I decide to go to the Philippines again. It would be a whole food trip if I did.

Philippines definitely has the most eccentric dishes:

Isaw (intestines)
Betamax (Coagulated blood)
Adidas (Chicken feet)

In Malaysia, they have 24 hour 'mamak' stalls that serves a mix of Chinese, Indonesian, and Indian cuisines. I love it.

Street Food - love it or hate it?
 

I love street food all over the world. Too often, however, street food doesn't like me all over the world.

Street Food - love it or hate it?
 

Love it now. Hate it later.

I love street food. India in particular - chaat, panipuri, vada pav, bhel puri, kati rolls, and any number of things whose name I can't remember or never quite understood. You do have to be very careful, of course, but I've yet (touch wood) to succumb to anything nasty as a result.

Sri Lanka has its wonderful 'short eats' as well - little rotis drowned in pepper, wadi, meat buns, breaded samosas...

Where I work in London, there's a nearby market that has yet to be hipsterified, and has a great selection of subcontinental and Chinese snacks (some of the tastiest dumplings I've had). But then just up the road, there's one that has been - but does manage to sport some interesting stuff (obscure South American snacks seem to be the order of the day...)

I love street food because it's generally really cheap and tasty; my theory being, you can get really good and efficient selling only one or two items. If we run across any, my wife and I will generally make an effort to stop and try some. We've never gotten sick from it <knock on wood>. Probably doesn't hurt to wash/sanitize your own hands before eating.

My buddy and other travellers we've come across won't risk it. I used to call them overly concerned but I've seen another friend get bedridden for 3 days after eating some suspect food in a restaurant while travelling so I don't want to feel responsible for pushing someone to eat anywhere they aren't comfortable with.

Personally, my favourite region for street food is southeast asia,save for the fried insects. Not my thing. :)

This is why you need Starwood Preferred Guest toilet paper. Or at worst, something from an IHG lower end hotel. Just not the rear end hotels. ;)

Nothing above a Chinese wouldn't eat :D

Charcoal grilled ocean fish were almost fantastic in Dalian, Northeast China. As are the matjes herring & raw onion rolls at beach shacks in Holland and Germany.

Other delights of the seven seas include grilled oysters at Korean beer & soju tents, various fish & seafood sandwiches at any market hall in Scandinavia and the most delicious sea urchin & squid "donburi" at the fish market in Hakodate, Japan.

How about Balut? Helmets?

True that :D

Fire kills everything. That's my safety net.

I don't know why I forgot balut. Maybe because I need to have a few beers in me to actually down one of those.

Not because it looks weird but because the taste is so rich. The 'fat lingering in the back of your mouth' sensation makes me gag.