We all love street food – while exploring a new city, eating street food is not only a great energy boost, it is also a great way to interact with locals and find out about the dishes and traditions behind them.
For Fusion Week, we bring you six iconic street foods from all corners of the world and easy recipes to recreate them at home. You’re welcome…
Made from sugar, egg yolk and butter, these are Portugal’s favourite street food! A great snack, but super dangerous as eating one usually leads to a further five…
This dish is the original King or Queen of Thailand’s street food scene. A stir-fried noodle dish mixed with vegetables and meat, this is one street food everybody must try when visiting the street kitchens of Thailand – swimming superstar Ian Thorpe brings his version to the table using squid ‘noodles’ to bring down the carbohydrate content and add extra nutrition from the seafood.
These mightly morsels are the stuff foodies’ dreams are made of…deep-fried breadcrumbed balls filled with risotto rice, mozzarella and ragu. With truffle season approaching, it’s time to up your street food game with this recipe for truffle, mushroom and Parmesan arancini balls, best served with your favourite relish or chutney.
Take a bow for the best little eat in China! These steamed buns are usually filled with vegetables or meat, making them the ideal one-handed soft, savoury or sweet snack – the flavours and textures are outstanding in this recipe for pork katsu bao buns, think crispy pork belly crumbed with Japanese breadcrumbs, slaw and ssamjang sauce.
A dessert tradition in the Philippines, halo halo is a beautiful mix of ice, fresh fruit, ice cream, a crunchy substance similar to puffed rice and evaporated milk. Try this recipe from Peter Kuruvita with an unusual combination of ingredients such as corn kernels, sweet potato, jackfruit, mango, banana, coconut, jelly and ice cream.
Freshly fried doughnut sticks served with warm, melted chocolate for dipping, need we say more? Spain’s national street food treat can be found at many Aussie food stops and is a definite winner with Down Under palates; this recipe uses the zest of an orange and dark chocolate, along with a cinnamon sugar coating.
