From CNN Travel: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/07/19/worlds.best.street.food/index.html
THIS is real street food. Not a taco truck/food stand with a Twitter account.
Twitter isn't going to help you to find food like this.
I think this list is an absolute joke. I’m from Portland and currently live in LA and think that this is bullshit.
The thing about the street food in these cities is the general faux authenticity of everything. Food is being served ironically in some sort of campy-retro throwback. Generally the food served out of food stands is americanized for the palates of americans. Everything is pre-planned by hipsters and foodies in both of these town, there is an air of missing inauthenticity to it all. Give me some cabeza tacos from mexicans who have been doing it for hundreds of years, some home made pad thai from an 80 year old grandma, or sausages being served in the street. Generally the food from the food trucks in Portland and LA are really not that much different from food you would get at a carnival.
Just because a bunch of hipsters can put up a twitter account to their taco trucks doesn’t mean it makes it the worlds best.
July 21st, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Gotta agree, though PDX does have a few stands that are actually terrific…and most of them are good, but I am sure theres far better in many foreign cities. Glad PDX is rated high regardless.
Never tried any in LA except a roach coach, which doesnt count.