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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Street food: Do you wish your country’s popular street food was available in China ?
Sale of street food is one of the common cultures of all countries. Love it or hate it, but it will be (almost) everywhere.
Do you wish your country’s popular street food was available in China ?
And Chinese street food kiosks/vendors in your country ?
yeah a Meat Pie in China
that would be new definition of a mystery bag
davo:
Had my 1st meat pie here after 10 years just a couple of weeks ago
Had it delivered to my door and it needed a couple of minutes in the microwave
but it was worth it
If you're interested - just ask
Stiggs:
Yes, meat pies !
They can be bought here. I know a guy who found some Aussie brand pies online and bought a shitload. Had one, it was great.
Shining_brow:
TBH - I've never tried them, but my mate has. Says they're not bad! but I think you need to live fairly nearby (within a few hundred K's..)
UK streetfood?
Over or under cooked hotdogs served on a stale bread roll? No thanks!
Though at least in the Uk any mobile food stalls need to have food safety certificates issued by the local government inspectors, unlike here where any old Zhou can rock up and sell rat meat kuo rou.
Shining_brow:
Of course they'd need to have the H&S certificates here... all you have to do is pay for them!
And, since it's western food, they can charge more for them (cos, you know how much more unsafe western food is!)
I probably tend to appear to favour anything Scandinavian over anything else from the world, but if there is one thing the frozen wonderland of Scandinavia doesn't do well, it is street food, sure there are awesome food to be eaten, but the joy mostly disappear in sub zero temperatures. Also, I am such a BaoZi fan that I would always pick that over anything else.
DaphneNJ:
I spent the middle school years in Fairbanks, Alaska. When my parents were on an "let's experience local culture" kick, they made me try akutaq AKA "Eskimo ice cream." It was whale blubber and reindeer fat whipped with wild berries. I'm not sure joy would be the right word to describe it, though it did work with the weather. Do you have anything like that in Scandinavia?
Scandinavian:
I have the base opinion that all cultures food are valuable. And if done correctly will be tasty.... but man does it take a lot of beers to wash away the taste of whale blubber. North-West Scandinavia aka Faeroe Islands are crazy about that, and rotting sheeps heads and ... well those people are sick.
there is nothing I would appreciate more than a good grilled cheese sandwich (maybe onion or green pepper or bacon/ham) ... without having to do it myself... wow
yeah a Meat Pie in China
that would be new definition of a mystery bag
davo:
Had my 1st meat pie here after 10 years just a couple of weeks ago
Had it delivered to my door and it needed a couple of minutes in the microwave
but it was worth it
If you're interested - just ask
Stiggs:
Yes, meat pies !
They can be bought here. I know a guy who found some Aussie brand pies online and bought a shitload. Had one, it was great.
Shining_brow:
TBH - I've never tried them, but my mate has. Says they're not bad! but I think you need to live fairly nearby (within a few hundred K's..)
Food trucks are becoming trendy here. There's one that sells hoagies (long sandwiches) with names like Phat Lady, Heart Stopper etc. They are filled with French fries (chips) and deep fried mozzarella sticks, plus fried eggs, bacon, steak and other greasy stuff. You probably need to be drunk or hungover to appreciate this kind of food. I'm not sure Chinese people would like them. My husband calls them belly bombers.
I think real Chinese street food would do well here, especially jianbing and roujiamo. But you only see those in New York, San Francisco etc. The food trucks here that sell Chinese food just have the same old boring items as in a typical American style Chinese restaurant: egg rolls, lo mein, fried rice. I wish they'd think outside the box a little. There's a Korean taco truck which does very well. People are ready to try new things.