
Fun Facts about Street Food:
- In Indonesia, street food is sold from carts and bicycles.
- Some cultures consider rude walking on the street while eating.
- Multiple studies showed that contamination of food that street food vendors sell is at the same level as the contamination at restaurants.
- Take-away pizza sold by street vendors in Italy is different than a pizza from pizzeria. It has a a thick base and is baked and sold in square or rectangular portions.
- Polish vendors sell, among other street food, zapiekankas which are halved baguette or bread grilled with mushroom, cheese and some type of meet.
- Mumbai, India has more than a half a million of street food vendors.
- Taco is the most searched street food on the Internet.
- Street vendors of Bangkok feed 40% of population of that city.
- Street food vendors also sell soft drinks and even coffee.
- The most common street food in United States are hot dogs.
- Street vendors in Brazil sell cheese buns called chipá which are small, baked, cheese-flavored rolls.
- Many places in the world have their variant of meat in bread as a popular street food.
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