Discover 100 of the world's best street food recipes. From taco carts and noodle stalls to hawker markets and gelaterias, it's on the street that you'll find the heart of a cuisine and its culture. With these 100 authentic recipes, Lonely Planet delivers the planet's freshest, tastiest street-food flavours. Gastronomic bliss awaits!
Travel the world from the comfort of your kitchen! From taco carts and noodle stalls to hawker markets and gelaterias, it's on the street that you'll find the heart of a cuisine and its culture.
From the people who have been delivering trustworthy guidebooks to every destination in the world for 40 years,Lonely Planet's World's Best Street Food is your passport to the planet's freshest, tastiest street-food flavours.
Each of the 100 recipes includes easy-to-use instructions, ingredients and mouth-watering photography plus a section detailing how the dish has evolved. There are also tasting notes that explain how best to sample each dish - whether that's in a beachside lobster shack in Maine, a hawker market in Singapore or standing at the bar in a Sicilian cafe - to truly give you a flavour of the place.
Includes:
Acaraje - Brazil
Arancino - Italy
Arepas - Venezuela
Bakso - Indonesia
Bamboo rice - Taiwan
Banh mi -Vietnam
Baozi - China
Bhelpuri - India
Breakfast burrito - USA
Brik - Tunisia
Bsarra - Morocco
Bun cha - Vietnam
Bunny chow - South Africa
Burek - Bosnia & Hercegovina
Ceviche de corvina - Peru
Chicken 65 - India
Chilli crab - Singapore
Chivito al pan - Uruguay
Chole batura - India
Choripan - Argentina
Cicchetti - Italy
Cocktel de Camaron - Mexico
Conch - Bahamas
Cornish pasty - England
Currywurst - Germany
Elote - Mexico
Falafel - Israel
Fuul mudammas - Egypt
Garnaches - Belize
Gimbap - South Korea
Gozleme - Turkey
Gyros - Greece
Hainanese chicken rice - Malaysia & Singapore
Hollandse Nieuwe haring - The Netherlands
Hot dog - USA
Jerked pork - Jamaica & Caribbean Islands
Juane - Peru
Kati roll - India
Kelewele - Ghana
Khao soi - Thailand
Knish - USA
Kuaytiaw - Thailand
Kushari - Egypt
Langos - Hungary
Maine lobster roll - USA
Mangue verte - Senegal
Meat pie - Australia
Mohinga - Myanmar (Burma)
Murtabak - Malaysia & Singapore
Otak-otak - Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia
Oyster cake - Hong Kong
Pane, Panelle e Crocche - Italy
Pastizzi - Malta
Peso pizza - Cuba
Phat kaphrao - Thailand
Phat thai - Thailand
Pho - Vietnam
Pierogi - Poland
Pizza al taglio - Italy
Poisson cru - French Polynesia
Poutine - Canada
Pupusa - El Salvador
Red red - Ghana
Roasted chestnuts - Europe& &
Sabih - Israel
Samsas - Central Asia
Sarawak laksa - Malaysia
Sfiha - Lebanon
Som tam - Thailand
Spring roll - China
Stinky tofu - Taiwan
Takoyaki - Japan
Tamale - Mexico
Tea eggs - Taiwan & China
Walkie-talkies - South Africa
Yangrou chuan - China
Zapiekanka - Poland
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.
Travel the world from the comfort of your kitchen! From taco carts and noodle stalls to hawker markets and gelaterias, it's on the street that you'll find the heart of a cuisine and its culture.
From the people who have been delivering trustworthy guidebooks to every destination in the world for 40 years,Lonely Planet's World's Best Street Food is your passport to the planet's freshest, tastiest street-food flavours.
Each of the 100 recipes includes easy-to-use instructions, ingredients and mouth-watering photography plus a section detailing how the dish has evolved. There are also tasting notes that explain how best to sample each dish - whether that's in a beachside lobster shack in Maine, a hawker market in Singapore or standing at the bar in a Sicilian cafe - to truly give you a flavour of the place.
Includes:
Acaraje - Brazil
Arancino - Italy
Arepas - Venezuela
Bakso - Indonesia
Bamboo rice - Taiwan
Banh mi -Vietnam
Baozi - China
Bhelpuri - India
Breakfast burrito - USA
Brik - Tunisia
Bsarra - Morocco
Bun cha - Vietnam
Bunny chow - South Africa
Burek - Bosnia & Hercegovina
Ceviche de corvina - Peru
Chicken 65 - India
Chilli crab - Singapore
Chivito al pan - Uruguay
Chole batura - India
Choripan - Argentina
Cicchetti - Italy
Cocktel de Camaron - Mexico
Conch - Bahamas
Cornish pasty - England
Currywurst - Germany
Elote - Mexico
Falafel - Israel
Fuul mudammas - Egypt
Garnaches - Belize
Gimbap - South Korea
Gozleme - Turkey
Gyros - Greece
Hainanese chicken rice - Malaysia & Singapore
Hollandse Nieuwe haring - The Netherlands
Hot dog - USA
Jerked pork - Jamaica & Caribbean Islands
Juane - Peru
Kati roll - India
Kelewele - Ghana
Khao soi - Thailand
Knish - USA
Kuaytiaw - Thailand
Kushari - Egypt
Langos - Hungary
Maine lobster roll - USA
Mangue verte - Senegal
Meat pie - Australia
Mohinga - Myanmar (Burma)
Murtabak - Malaysia & Singapore
Otak-otak - Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia
Oyster cake - Hong Kong
Pane, Panelle e Crocche - Italy
Pastizzi - Malta
Peso pizza - Cuba
Phat kaphrao - Thailand
Phat thai - Thailand
Pho - Vietnam
Pierogi - Poland
Pizza al taglio - Italy
Poisson cru - French Polynesia
Poutine - Canada
Pupusa - El Salvador
Red red - Ghana
Roasted chestnuts - Europe& &
Sabih - Israel
Samsas - Central Asia
Sarawak laksa - Malaysia
Sfiha - Lebanon
Som tam - Thailand
Spring roll - China
Stinky tofu - Taiwan
Takoyaki - Japan
Tamale - Mexico
Tea eggs - Taiwan & China
Walkie-talkies - South Africa
Yangrou chuan - China
Zapiekanka - Poland
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.
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