Street food
The time of day is crucial to the type of street food you will obtain. In the early mornings, you see trucks or carts selling fried green plantains with fried salami in paper bags; empanadas filled with meat, cheese and/or hardboiled eggs; sandwiches with the works and to wash it all down, a Styrofoam cup of freshly squeezed orange juice.
As the day goes on and you reach lunch time, the carts start selling their daily fare of lunch food, this including: red, greasy spaghettis with toasted bread; my favorite would be the old lady that worked a block away from my job and the days I didn’t eat at home, I’d go over and have her food, which was homemade Dominican red beans and rice, with some sort of chicken or beef and a salad. The meal cost about $50 Dominican pesos (US$1.44). It was cheap, fast and the most delicious and amazing food ever. You can also find Pork Rind vendors, with crispy, crunchy pork skins with a squeeze of lime on the side!
Dessert is always the fruit carts, the old man that sells every single tropical fruit, diced or whole, peeled and cored. Craving a fruit salad? He’ll dice a variety of fruits and drizzle them with local honey, handing you a skewer to spear them with and enjoy! On the beach, a slice of fruit is the perfect snack!
After the sun sets, the street food of choice are “chimis”, fatty, huge, greasy burgers in between bread and stuffed with cooked cabbage, carrots and a mayo and ketchup sauce. Served in a plastic bag or parchment bag, where you would eat it in, because of the huge mess it normally makes! Great after a night out of drinking and dancing!
What street food do you find in YOUR hometown? Do you have food trucks or carts?
This is a really phenomenal post. The street food photos are are awesome..as are those chimi’s. My fav street food..hmmm, hard to choose since they have a truck for everything imaginable in NYC now! LOve 90% of it!
WOW! We find all sorts of food on the street. from chinese to south indian. Cut fruit and freshly squeezed juice is available too.
not much here but man I am i hungry now !
hmm id have to say the warm salted nuts in NYC are pretty much the most amazing thing when you’re walking around on a cold winter day… hmmm i could totally go for some right now….
Lovely. Sometimes street food is the best food. I live in Austin, Tx where food trucks are EVERYWHERE! It’s a cool way for young chefs to get their start without all the overhead of a full restaurant.
Looks so good. I love fruit, I also think they are a great treat for the beach. The pineapple looks yummy!
There isn’t really any street food where I live either, but I love conch salad when I’m in the Bahamas!
Wow I am so jealous of all your local yummies. The only “street food” type thing we have at Purdue is a grease truck called Famous Franks that serves all the drunk people when they come out of the bars at night. Not the same.. I’d much rather have all that delicious fruit and a chimis! Have a great trip in MV!
Here in Halifax we have some great fish and chips trucks! Generally speaking, though, we don’t have nearly enough food trucks around.
I used to love (a little too much? ;)) to grab some currywurst and pommes on the street in Germany. In Korea, tteokbokki (spicy rice cake) was my go to 🙂 Long live food trucks and street food! Yum!
There isn’t really any street food where I live, but that tends to be my favorite when I’m traveling. When I was in Paris many, many years ago, buying crepes and panini from street vendors was one of my favorite food memories!