Food

Welcome to the Food section of Travel & Cravings, a place for everyone who loves discovering delicious food and unique culinary experiences. Food is an important part of every journey, and this section is dedicated to exploring flavors from different cities, countries, and cultures.

Here you will find food blogs, restaurant features, local food guides, street food discoveries, and reviews of popular dining spots. We share experiences from different places to help readers discover great food, whether they are traveling or simply looking for new places to try.

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Greek Street Food Has Been Making the Rest of Europe Look Bad for Centuries

The souvlaki is one of the great street foods in the world — the considered verdict of anyone who has eaten a properly made one,…
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Burmese Food: The Last Great Undiscovered Cuisine in Asia

The first time I encountered Burmese food properly was at a tea shop in Yangon at seven in the morning — the kind that has…
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North Indian Food: Stop Ordering Butter Chicken and Start Eating Properly

Butter chicken has done more for the global spread of North Indian food and more damage to the global understanding of it than any other…
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South Indian Food: The Cuisine That Wakes You Up With Coconut and Keeps You Up With Spice

South Indian food is not North Indian food with a different flag. The global understanding of Indian cuisine — butter chicken, naan, biryani — is…
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Taiwanese Food: The Night Market Civilisation the World Is Finally Discovering

Taiwan is a small island of 23 million that has built one of the most extraordinary food cultures in the world — the result of…
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Japan’s Regional Food Is the Country’s Best-Kept Secret

The first time I understood Japan’s food culture was not in a Michelin-starred Tokyo restaurant but at a standing ramen counter in Fukuoka at eleven…
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Portuguese Food: A Love Letter to Salt, Olive Oil and the Sea

Portuguese cooking is the taste of a country that spent five hundred years looking outward at the ocean while keeping its own ingredients — salt…
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Singapore Taught Me That the Best Food in the World Costs Five Dollars

The first time I ate at a Singapore hawker centre, I sat down with a tray of Hainanese chicken rice that had cost five Singapore…
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Central Asian Food Is the Silk Road on a Plate and Nobody Is Talking About It

Central Asia sits at the geographical centre of the Eurasian landmass and the cultural crossroads of every major trading route connecting China, Persia, the Arab…
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Argentinian Food: Where Fire Is the Only Technique That Matters

There are countries where food is sustenance, countries where food is culture, and countries where food is religion. Argentina is firmly in the third category,…
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Pakistani Food Is the Most Underrated Cuisine on Earth and That Needs to End

Pakistani food is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. The diaspora has seeded cities from London to Toronto to Dubai with some of the finest karahi restaurants…
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Filipino Food: The Asian Cuisine the World Is Finally Paying Attention To

Filipino cuisine has spent decades being one of the most underrepresented major food cultures in the global conversation — present in diaspora communities worldwide, beloved…