Top Street Foods Around The World

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Chile: Empanadas de Pino

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What It Is: Chilean Empanadas de Pino are flavorful beef empanadas filled with unexpected ingredients like raisins, olives, and hard boiled eggs.

Colombia: Arepas

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What It Is: Arepas are deliciously crispy white corn cakes that can be eaten plain or stuffed.

Mexico: Mangonadas

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What It Is: Mangonadas are a layered Mexican mango smoothie that are sweet, salty, tart, and fruity.

Ecuador: Pupusas

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What It Is: Masa flour pouches filled with beans, cheese, and/or meat—are a signature dish of El Salvador.

Turkey: Simit

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What It Is: Turkish simit is a circular bread that's commonly accompanied by either tea or ayran (salted yogurt drink).

India: Vada pav

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What It Is: Spicy mashed potatoes that are deep-fried in chickpea batter and stuffed in white bread rolls.

China: Jianbing

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What It Is: A thin and savory crêpe-like pancake that is usually topped with eggs, various sauces such as chili sauce, and filled with ingredients such as spring onions, mustard pickles, radishes, scallions, cilantro, and chicken or sausage.

South Korea: Jeon

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What It Is: Korean pancakes coated in flour and eggs, then pan-fried in oil.

Japan: Taiyaki

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What It Is: Japanese fish-shaped cake that is often consumed as a snack, made from flour and filled with azuki sweet bean paste.

Netherlands: Patatje oorlog

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What It Is: Dutch street food dish consisting of fries topped with a variety of condiments, including mayonnaise, finely chopped onions, and peanut-based satay-style sauce

Portugal: Bolas de Berlim

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What It Is: Portuguese donuts that are sliced in half, then filled with sweet and creamy egg-based custard.

Italy: Crocchè

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What It Is: Deep-fried mashed potatoes, eggs, Parmigiano and mozzarella cheese, and parsley or mint leaves.

Greece: Kreatopita

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What It Is: Traditional Greek meat pie combines flaky phyllo dough with a flavorful ground meat filling.

Lebanon: Falafels

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What It Is: Falafel is a deep-fried ball or patty-shaped fritter in Middle Eastern cuisine made from ground chickpeas, broad beans, or both.

Morocco: Chebakia

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What It Is: Moroccan sesame cookie that is shaped into a flower, fried and then coated with honey.

Ghana: Kelewele

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What It Is: Fried plantains seasoned with cayenne peppers, salt and ginger.

Egypt: Hawawshi

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What It Is: Traditional baladi bread, stuffed with a flavorful mixture of minced meat, vegetables, and various spices.