Your roadmap when hunger catches you on the streets of the world
“Most street food has nothing to do with sophistication or creativity, It has to do with making a living. It is hard work". The one speaking to Traveler.es is Matija Babic, from the team at Taste Atlas, the web behind of the map that brings together the most representative of street food in the world.
And it is that they consider that the best way to get to know the culinary culture is to do it through street food. "If you want to know the world of food, you should first of all know the world of street food."
They are in it, in making us have a clear representation of this world based on constantly add new dishes to your meal base, making your map continuously updated.
behind the 458 references that the street food map currently has are the authors and collaborators that they have scattered around different countries, their own research and documentation of each dish, as well as the contributions in the form of information and photographs made by readers. "People like it, especially now that Netflix is popularizing street food."
In TasteAtlas they have started with the most famous and recognize that it is increasingly difficult for them to discover new dishes, "Which means we have the world pretty well covered."
And among so much information, curious facts arrive. “What has surprised us the most is the variety and number of styles of American hotdogs that exist. There are so many! Then there is also the Cambodian dish of fried spiders, usually tarantulas, which taste like a mixture of cod and chicken. We have also discovered that Peruvians eat completely roasted guinea pig. And that the Polish hot dog (...) seems quite interesting”.
Also, this map is accompanied by a constantly updated ranking since it is elaborated with the data of the thousands of readers who vote periodically and with the score they obtain from Google.