The world’s best cities for best street food city
Topping our ranking with a massive 63 percent approval rating isVietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City. That is no small feat for a megacity that boasts six Michelin-starred restaurants, includingĂnăn Saigon,which elevates street snacks into fine art. You can’t beat the original, though, so skip those reservations and wander into the scooter-filled alleys around Bến Thành Market, grab a tiny plastic stool on the nearest corner, balance a steaming bowl of fragrant pho on your knees, or smash a wonderfully crunchy banh mi on the fly.
Photograph: Kuba Puchajda / A bustling night scene at a vibrant street market in Ho Chi Minh City
Just behind isKuala Lumpuron 62 percent, where the after-dark food stalls ofJalan Alorturn an entire city street into a roaring, open-air canteen. Follow the scent of sizzling fat for smoky charcoal satay, whole grilled fish, and platefuls ofchar kway teow, a stir-fried rice noodle dish packed with prawns and bean sprouts. It is cooked over raging heat to give what is known as a wok hei – a charred flavour known as the ‘breath of the wok’. Grab a plastic chair under a canopy of glowing red lanterns and inhale the lot.
JakartaandTaipeitie for third with a 59 percent approval rating apiece. In Jakarta, the culinary magic happens at roadsidewarungs(casual food stalls), where locals tuck into mountain-high plates of spicy nasi goreng and peanut-drenched gado-gado. Meanwhile, Taipei’s legendary neon
