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This chili cheese toast at Rahi is a modern interpretation of classic street food, utilizing a savory processed cheese called Amul. Crank up that broiler!

Check out these 13 global sandwiches (plus one Reuben) from YouTube channel Food, People, Places we'll surely be making in the future.

These orange food carts (Kamala is Bengali for orange) are providing the people of the megapolis with clean food, and people are paying the costs.

A dosa vendor uses an innovative steam-heated roller to cooks yards and yards of the popular Indian street food eaten by millions every day.

It's the hot dog chart that broke the internet! Check out 40 ways the world makes awesome hot dogs, a colossal compendium of tube steak styles.

In 8 Authentic Thai Dishes And How To Spot Their Fake Versions, you learned how to spot fake versions of Thai dishes. Now, let’s expose a different side of Thai cuisine. Just like many global cuisines, Thai as we know it has evolved with a mix of local and immigrant culinary traditions — the most prominent…

You may have wondered if people actually eat “drunken noodles” in Thailand. But heck, you might not care because they’re so darn tasty! Either way, we think you deserve to know the truth. Here’s how to tell whether or not your favorite Thai dishes are authentic.[embedImage=https://i0.wp.com/www.foodrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Krathong-Tong1.jpg?resize=4357%2C3186]

Last time we saw LA-based comedians the Fung Brothers, they were neck-deep in burgers and pastrami fries from LA's famed pastrameria The Hat. Sometimes, though, you just gotta hit the road. And if you're traveling for food, Singapore might as well be your first stop. Do it like the locals do: order a tableful of…

You may have other culinary goals if you're in Manchester, England, but put Sweet Mandarin on your "to-visit" list in case you feel like deviating from regional fare. Twin sisters and Sweet Mandarin owners Helen and Lisa Tse put modern Chinese food on the map with their popular restaurant, and recently released their first cookbook.…

[embedImage=https://www.foodrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Desgranadas_vendor.jpg] Snoop around the verdant public squares, church plazas and along the ancient wall of colonial-era Cartagena, and you’ll find some of the city’s best eats. From old-fashioned wooden carts, mobile grill tops and tiny kiosks come deep-fried wonders, seafood cocktails and tropically sweet snacks. Though the UNESCO World Heritage site has recently trended towards…

Many lines have been written about so-called “street food” — rustic and many times inexpensive meals served outdoors using minimal forms of cooking equipment. Looking closely at street food oftentimes provides a look into the most fundamental tenants of a culture’s culinary oeuvre. It also makes us really hungry. In Vietnam, an impoverished country with…

"Dosas are just okay," said nobody, ever. Check out this absolutely pornographic tribute to crispy-chewy South Indian rice and lentil crepes. I don't utter the words "food" and "porn" in the same sentence unless I mean it. Or if it's Wednesday. Hey! [embed=//www.youtube.com/embed/dP25jbXkDlA] Now if you want my honest pairing recommendation, it's gotta be Django…

Restaurateur and TV personality Alex Garcia's AG Kitchen and Amigos both serve exceptionally delicious elote, a Mexican dish of corn on the cob rolled in crema and cheese. Garcia says the secret to great elote is boiling the corn on the cob in milk instead of water, as the fat from the milk makes the…

I wrote about New York's halal carts a couple of years back as one of the very first lunch suggestions I ever threw out there. That's because I've been eating combo rice since I was a wee thing. I find a container of meat-laden rice covered with tart yogurt sauce and fiery harissa to be…

The Bangkok Post published this comprehensive crash course in Thai street food. Well, we're treating it as a crash course because we don't know the answers to any of these questions! But thanks to the answer key, you too can be a master of the Thai grilled tubesteak nugget-thing (answer key sez: Isan-style sausage) and…

That is one enthusiastic ketchup man right there. I've since finished my jar of coriander chutney since writing about its many virtues last week but I'm still on an Indian condiment kick. I remember dipping fries into ketchup in India as a kid and thinking "what the hell is this stuff?" It was definitely ketchup…

Thanks to our editorial intern Laila, we've been pretty solidly educated on the glories of the various kinds of Middle Eastern street food she grew up with. First she brought Turkey's wet burger to our attention, a new kind of French dip experience totally worth the 12-hour flight. Then we learned about koshary, the most…

Sometimes you just feel like drinking your nutrients. That's when you break out the blender and the...hm, only one kind of fruit around. And nothing else but yogurt. But that's cool, you don't really need anything else. Therein lies the difference between the classic loaded American smoothie, home of all the sugar in the world,…

I found a shape of dumpling I've never eaten, and I'm ecstatic. I went to a Nepalese restaurant last night and ordered yomari, dumplings typically filled with molasses and eaten on holidays. They stand in for various gods depending on what they're stuffed with. These were closer to momo with a spiced ground lamb filling,…

I read myself to sleep last night with one of my favorite bedtime stories: Jon Chonko's Scanwiches book. It's a real thriller — intimidating Italian characters who may or may not be associated with the mob, a classic meat-meets-bread story, a little fluff, a sexy Cuban and a war (but I won't give away the…

Tortas are quick and easy sandwiches made with bolillos. You can make them cold or grill the bread before stuffing. This grilled mushroom torta oozes creaminess, and the addition of long green chiles and tequila gives it just the right dimension of smokiness. The tequila notes linger on one’s tongue just long enough to taste…

Have you ever experienced a bout of vegetarian food so delicious you forget there's no meat in it? The dog days of summer are the perfect time to load up on all the veggies you'll be replacing with meat come winter, and this vegetable cutlet recipe is at home in a bun or as a…

I hopped down to Oaxaca over the weekend to check out the Zignum mezcal distillery and discovered my new favorite food, which also happens to hop. Mexican fried grasshoppers, chapulines, will knock you out of a taco rut faster than a speeding mouse in a sombrero. They're in prime season right now. And, believe it…

I followed author and master food-seeker KF Seetoh around Singapore like it was my job. I mean, it was my job, that was one of the main reasons I set sail in the first place. But once I started asking him questions I really couldn't stop. Sometimes referred to as the Asian Bourdain, Seetoh was…

Man, there is just no way to make some street food look attractive. I poked and arranged and even tossed a Hudson filter over it and that char kway teow still looked like a pile of...well, whatever. This signature Singaporean stir-fried rice noodle dish is hyper-addictive and boasts some serious signature culinary moves of hawker…