Most of the best places I've ever eaten have been supper cheap. A six dollar bowl of noodles from an authentic place in china town is just as good (likely better) as a fancy place that caters to Americans and charges $22 a dish. A hole in the wall spot in the barrio has better food at a tenth the price of fancy spot in a white neighborhood. Fancy restaurants also suck cause they are frequently heavily meat based.
I wish we had proper street food in my country. Street food here is either nasty processed slop where you wonder if the food is just a front for a money laundering scheme or it is gentrified hipster shit where the food is good and the place is decorated with salvaged bike parts but you have to pay USD 20 for a burger.
Most of the best places I've ever eaten have been supper cheap. A six dollar bowl of noodles from an authentic place in china town is just as good (likely better) as a fancy place that caters to Americans and charges $22 a dish. A hole in the wall spot in the barrio has better food at a tenth the price of fancy spot in a white neighborhood. Fancy restaurants also suck cause they are frequently heavily meat based.
No food is better than street vendor skewers and those noodles in a takeaway container
I wish we had proper street food in my country. Street food here is either nasty processed slop where you wonder if the food is just a front for a money laundering scheme or it is gentrified hipster shit where the food is good and the place is decorated with salvaged bike parts but you have to pay USD 20 for a burger.
I really miss the street vendors almost every country I've been to has. The food trucks in America just aren't the same at all.
There are some great ones in NYC, especially the flushing area
tfw no hole in the wall vegan places because vegan = piles of yuppie money to restaurant owners
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