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The article doesn't make this obvious, but the Michelin Guide just expanded into Singapore this year. Singapore has some amazing food, and the hawker stalls ar
by avar 10y ago
The article doesn't make this obvious, but the Michelin Guide just expanded into Singapore this year.
Singapore has some amazing food, and the hawker stalls are no exception. If anything they exceed far fancier restaurants with their focus and authenticity.
But as far as this being news or worthy of HN goes, this just seems like shameless corporate propaganda, even the video accompanying the article is entirely produced by Michelin.
If anything I think the newsworthy aspect of it is why there's been literally no street food stall in Michelin's established markets deemed good enough for certification? Maybe I just have my guilty pleasures, but there's some truly delicious street food to be had in Europe.
- fatjokes 10y agoSuggestions for delicious street food in Europe? I travel to Europe pretty often and consider myself quite the glutton but have yet to experience good street food (great restaurants, yes, but not street food).
- Panoramix 10y agoLondon is packed with street food, but other than that there's less by orders of magnitude than Asia or Latin America. (I'd love to be wrong on this one).
- klausa 10y agoBerlin has something called "Thai Park", which happens on summer weeekends. It is, as far as I know, the best Thai food west of Thailand.
- poloniculmov 10y agoKebabs, gyros and shawrma, though they're served from holes in the wall and not from a cart.
- dempseye 10y agoEurope is much too diverse to give you proper recommendations without knowing what city or country you'll be in.
- Scarblac 10y agoRaw herring with chopped onions in the Netherlands.
- DrPhish 10y agoDefinitely! Also, Stroopwafels
- beachstartup 10y agothis is just my opinion, but i don't think this is literally 'street food' -- it's not on the street, it's in a food court inside of a shopping mall frequented by affluent professionals. in my experience, east and southeast asia have the best 'food court' cuisine on earth, probably by an order of magnitude. nothing i've seen on any other continent even comes close. i think this is just michelin recognizing that fact.
- avar 10y agoIt's not inside a mall, it's in a hawker center, a complex that doesn't have traditional shopping and is literally many levels of nothing but small one-man eateries. Saying that it's not "street food", I think, glosses over the context of what these things are in Singapore. There was a concerted effort by the government at some point to bring what were "street food" stalls in the western sense into regulated hawker centers for hygienic reasons. There's almost no "street food" in the western sense in Singapore, for a combination of that reason and the fact that it's bloddy hot outside. While Hawker centers usually don't have AC, they at least tend to have fans everywhere, which makes it a bit more tolerable than eating food outside in the street. It is street food in the sense that it's all really cheap food that's prepared almost instantly, you can eat it in a hurry, and the Hawker centers are all in major thoroughfares.
- tamana 10y ago"street food in the western sense" is funny in USA because USA has nearly no street food in the sense of the western view of Asian streetfood vendors. USA has "food trucks"
- dllthomas 10y agoHot dog cart?
- theCodeStig 10y agoIt's a rarity. Hot dog carts (or other food carts) would only be found in larger cities, such as NY. Smaller cities, only outside of a sports stadium during a game.