Street Foods

Street food is a by-product of cities. Where people worked away from a hearth — Rome’s thermopolia, the night markets of Song-dynasty Kaifeng, the fried-food stalls of Edo — someone sold them a cooked meal they could eat standing up. It appears wherever dense wage labor does, independently and repeatedly, because the need is structural rather than cultural.

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Fried Lake Tanganyika sardines Fries with cheese curds and gravy Fujian oyster omelet Gaziantep pistachio katmer Georgian cheese bread Greek souvlaki Grenadian bakes with saltfish Grilled chicken or pork intestines Grilled fish with beans and cassava Guadalajara drowned sandwich Haitian fried stuffed pastry Hanoi grilled pork with noodles Hejazi spiced chickpeas Honduran bean tortilla Hungarian fried flatbread Indonesian fritters Iranian falafel sandwich İzmir kumru sandwich Jaipur onion kachori Jianbing breakfast crepe Karaim meat pastries Kazakh fried dough Kenyan grilled sausage Kittitian johnny cake with saltfish Kolkata kathi roll Kolkata puchka Kosovar grilled minced-meat sausages Kyiv fried sausage bun Kyrgyz baked meat pastry Liberian rice fritters Libyan fried dough Los Angeles bacon-wrapped hot dog Lupini-bean ceviche Macedonian burek Madrid fried-calamari sandwich Makassar pressed grilled banana Málaga sardine skewers Malagasy rice cakes Malawian fried dough Malaysian flaky griddled flatbread Maldivian tuna dumplings Maltese filled flaky pastry Manakish flatbread Manaus tucumã sandwich Marshallese coconut rice balls Mauritanian roast mutton Mauritian split-pea flatbread wrap Melbourne dim sim Mersin tantuni wrap Mitarashi rice dumplings Mohinga fish noodle soup Moldovan filled flat pastry Monégasque stuffed fritter Mongolian fried meat pastry Montenegrin burek Moroccan layered griddle bread Mozambican prego roll Mumbai potato-fritter bun Namibian grilled meat Nauruan coconut fish