Flatbread baked with toppings dates to Roman times, but it wasn’t until the 1800s that Italians added tomato sauce and cheese. The basic pizza in Naples must have a thin crust, fresh tomato sauce and mozzarella.
Tag: Street Food
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Pisang Goreng
(Indonesian batter-fried bananas)
These banana fritters are very popular in Indonesia and are excellent served with ice cream and drizzled with honey. You can also serve them in a dish with a little coconut cream.
Pho Bo
(Vietnamese beef noodle soup)
Seemingly simple, yet wonderfully complex, Vietnamese pho bo is more than just broth with beef and noodles. Pho is considered one of the world’s great dishes.
Penang Hokkien Mee
(Malaysian spicy shrimp and pork noodle soup)
Hokkien mee is actually the name for three different noodle dishes. In Penang, Hokkien mee is a steaming bowl of noodles and rich shrimp broth, studded with sliced pork, shrimp, vegetables and chiles.
Pad Thai
(Thai stir-fried rice noodles)
Pad thai is often considered the quintessential Thai dish. Pad thai is Thai fast food, tossed up in noodle shops or made on the street at innumerable pad thai carts.
Arepas
(Colombian and Venezuelan corncakes)
Arepas are little corncakes that were originally made by the indigenous inhabitants of Venezuela and Colombia. These days they are sold in Venezuelan restaurants called areperías.
Alcapurrias
(Puerto Rican stuffed fritters)
These scrumptious fritters are usually made with a batter of taro (yautía) and green bananas (guineos verdes), and are stuffed with either a meat (pino) filling or with crab, shrimp or lobster.
Akkra
(Senegalese black-eyed pea fritters)
Akkra bean fritters originated in Western Africa, but with the slave trade, they spread to the Caribbean and Brazil.