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IMO Taipei is missing big times on this list. Even though Greysholic will probably chime in and is going to tell some horror stories about it
New York has indeed some of the best food in the world. But it's pretty mediocre in the street food department, when compared to other cities mentioned in this thread. Same with Hong Kong btw. Great restaurant food, but proper street food? Meh.
Yeah, that was the obvious one left-out to me as well. I mean, even just in LA, our emerging night market scene is based on Taipei's scene. My friends couldn't stop raving about them when they were in Taiwan.
Los Angeles, California definitely deserves a mention. You can get all kinds of stuff from food trucks, food carts and sometimes even shopping carts, I've seen people put hot pots in shopping carts! LA is really where the food truck/ethnic fusion craze started.
The thread has strayed from " street food " to " food trucks ". The cities with the best street food, are cities that aren't necessarily the ones with the best food trucks.
The thread has strayed from " street food " to " food trucks ". The cities with the best street food, are cities that aren't necessarily the ones with the best food trucks.
No one said the cities with the best street food are the ones with the best food trucks. But food trucks are usually considered street food, What exactly is your problem with that? Why should food trucks not be included in this conversation?
The down side of street food in Thailand, is that everyone eats street food, they buy it before they go home for the evening, it is served in plastic bags and is pretty hard to negotiate if you aren't in possession of bowls, spoons, etc.
There is no way that Portland is anywhere near the top 1,000 in the world, nor anyplace else that has government regulations on what can be sold for human consumption. Try serving Kazakh horse-meat stew in Portland Oregon, and see how long you are in business. Or cats, bats or rats.
I suggest you to go to Napoli and Palermo next time, in these Southern Italian cities you will find plenty of street food, in that regard they are maybe even the capitals of Europe, many little shops where you take away something to eat in the streets or stalls at the market which sell it directly.
In Napoli:
Spoiler
Pizza al Portafoglio
Calzone
Here's one of the little shops i was talking about hich specializes on sfogliatelle
Sfogliatella Riccia
Fried Pizza
Fried Maccheroni
I could go on and on and as a street food lover, it's so good and more than everything cheap, some places even serve parmesan eggplant to eat on the street, you just have to know where to go.
I suggest you to go to Napoli and Palermo next time, in these Southern Italian cities you will find plenty of street food, in that regard they are maybe even the capitals of Europe, many little shops where you take away something to eat in the streets or stalls at the market which sell it directly.
In Napoli:
I could go on and on and as a street food lover, it's so good and more than everything cheap, some places even serve parmesan eggplant to eat on the street, you just have to know where to go.
Great to know improb, unfortunately when I visited Naples it was my first time and I knew nothing about this Neapolitan street food, so I often ended up waiting hours for the pizzerias in the city center to open (they open at 7.00 pm for dinner).
I'm surprised no mention of New York. I would rank it up among the best gastronomic cities.
New York street food? what a joke. You mean all kinds of hotdogs and hotdogs?
US and Canada are pretty much a dead zone for street food. Can't remotely compare with a real energetic city with streets lined with small venders. Any second tier Chinese city crushes NYC immediately.
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