Street Food

Street food (including street food ) is as anglicism an expression for food and drinks that are offered for a snack either from a wheeled stall out on a public road surface, in a market or fair or on the move consumed while staying on a public traffic area.

General

The administration is usually so that you can take (as "finger food" ) to the refrigerator immediately and without cutlery, for example, on a cardboard plate, on or in a plant leaf, in paper or wrapped in a paper napkin, or on wooden sticks plugged, recently also in disposable dishes.

Street food is often unique and typical of the region and is usually sold at stands or carts, which are operated by small business owners. Sometimes, the whole family works at a " Street food cart" with. Most food is prepared or completed before the eyes of the buyer and is because of the small portions, to the simple preparation and the sale on " hawkers " often inexpensive.

According to a study by the FAO from the year 2007, 2.5 billion people eat street food every day from and output in South America in urban households up to 30 percent of household expenditure for street food. In Bangkok Street Food supply 20,000 dealers city dwellers with an estimated 40 percent of daily calories. Street food is not only cheap, but can also be nutritious. A study from Calcutta, India revealed that an average street food meal contained 30 grams of protein, 15 grams of fat and 180 grams of carbohydrates.

Although "fast food" is also often eaten on the go, this term refers more to the rapid consumption in combination with faster production. Food and drinks "to go", English "to go " Austrian " takeaway sales (s) ", are sometimes offered better packaged.

Examples

Typical street food dishes include:

  • Pastries: pretzels, sandwiches,
  • Flatbread: Chapati, Farinata (chick pea patties ), pizza, okonomiyaki (Japanese pizza), Puri, Samosa, Pakuri, Laxoox
  • Fried food: rice balls, french fries, fish and chips, donuts, donuts,
  • On charcoal grilled: Satay ( skewered meat ), tree pie, chestnuts,
  • Stir fry: Paella, Pav Bhaji
  • Cake: Cake, Baklava
  • Sweets: cookies, ice cream
  • Vegetables: boiled or roasted corn on the cob, potatoes, sweet potatoes,
  • Fruit, in whole or in handy pieces
  • Knabberwaren ( roasted nuts or seeds )
  • Meat dishes: kibbeh (meatballs ), kebap, Ćevapčići
  • Fish: fried sardines or squid
  • Insects ( Thai cuisine, Africa ), see entomophagy in humans
  • Soups
  • Picnic meals: bento

Typical street food - drinks include: water, coffee, tea, fresh fruit juices, beer, soft drinks and coconut water.

Famous locations for Street Food

In probably every major city is street food available in the local market, night market or Customs markets, but there are some places where only street food is offered, for example,

  • At the Djemaa el Fna, the center of city of Marrakech in Morocco
  • In the Food Street in Gawalmandi in Pakistan
  • The night market in the Forodhani Gardens in Zanzibar Town Zanzibar

Trivia

In Trapani ( Italy) takes place every year in summer the Stragusto, a three-day festival of international street food instead.

In 2005, the Saxony-born Rolf Babiel won the Vendy Award. He was thus as the best street food vendors in New York and beat off competitors by 10,000. Kerstin Aldenhoff turned 2002 on Babiel documentation The Sausage King of New York.

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