Street Foods of the World Trivia Word Search

This small Brazilian savory pie is a common bakery and street stall item.

Chicken marinated in yogurt and spices, then roasted in a clay oven, gives this dish its name.

This Australian street classic wraps minced meat and gravy inside a pastry crust.

This crispy Indian potato patty, often served with chutney, gets its name from the Hindi word for potato.

Skewers of grilled chicken, often basted in a sweet soy glaze, are sold at Japanese food stalls under this name.

This New York street-cart classic is a dense, boiled-then-baked ring of bread, often topped with sesame seeds.

This Portuguese custard tart, a bakery and street favorite, gets its name from the filling it's named after.

This chewy, pounded Japanese rice cake is often sold plain, filled, or grilled at festival stalls.

This fermented rice cake is steamed and served for breakfast across South India.

This sausage in a bun became a fixture of American ballparks and city street carts.

Spun sugar, whipped into a fluffy cloud and twirled onto a stick, is a fairground treat known by different names in the US and Britain.

This Chinese steamed bun is filled with pork, vegetables, or sweet paste.

Victorian Londoners bought this fish cooked and set in its own gelatin, sold from street stalls.

Minced-meat sausages, grilled and served in flatbread, are a beloved street food across the Balkans.

Layers of flaky filo pastry, nuts, and honey syrup make up this Middle Eastern and Balkan sweet.

These fried tortilla chips, topped with melted cheese, began as a quick snack at a Mexican border town.

This Brazilian snack shapes shredded chicken and dough into a teardrop before frying.

This sour, spicy Thai soup gets its punch from lemongrass, lime leaf, and chili.

This stir-fried rice noodle dish, often served with peanuts and lime, is Thailand's best-known street food export.

Sliced sausage topped with a spiced tomato sauce and a fragrant spice blend is a beloved Berlin street-food invention.

In Mexico these corn tortillas folded around a filling are the country's most famous street snack.

This Filipino street snack skewers grilled, seasoned pork or chicken intestines coiled onto a stick.

This square of fried dough, dusted in powdered sugar, is a New Orleans breakfast street food.

In Jamaica, meat marinated in Scotch bonnet peppers and allspice, then smoked over pimento wood, gets this name.

These fried dough sticks, dusted in sugar or cinnamon, are sold by street vendors and dipped in hot chocolate.

This spiced lentil curry poured over bread is a fiery Mumbai street breakfast.

This South African dish hollows out a loaf of bread and fills it with curry.

Mexican vendors call their assorted savory snacks these 'little cravings.'

Coconut milk gives this fragrant Malaysian rice dish its rich flavor.

Fried potato strips are said to have been sold by Paris street vendors in the late 1700s, though Belgium disputes it.

This fish-shaped Japanese cake is filled with sweet red bean paste and cooked in a special mold.

These fried Sicilian rice balls are stuffed with ragu, cheese, or peas before being breaded.

These vegetable fritters, dipped in chickpea batter and deep-fried, are popular across the Indian subcontinent.

Sold from Indonesian food carts, nasi _ _ _ _ _ _ takes the Indonesian word for 'fried' in its name.

This stuffed, fried or baked pastry pocket is popular across Spain and Latin America.

This sausage, coated in cornmeal batter and deep-fried on a stick, is an American fairground classic.

This Vietnamese noodle soup, built on a beef or chicken broth, is eaten at all hours from street stalls.

This thin French pancake, folded around sweet or savory fillings, is cooked to order on street griddles.

This spicy coconut-based noodle soup is a signature street dish of Singapore and Malaysia.

This flaky fried pastry stuffed with lentils or spices is a favorite North Indian street snack.

This Vietnamese baguette sandwich blends French bread with pickled vegetables and meat.

This general term for skewered, grilled meat is used from the Middle East across South Asia.

Bite-sized dishes served from steamer baskets and small plates are known by this Cantonese term.

Citrus juice 'cooks' raw fish in this bright Peruvian dish, often sold from coastal carts.

This spiced, layered rice-and-meat dish is a festive street favorite across South Asia.

This Mexican dish tops a sandal-shaped fried masa base with beans, meat, and cheese.

This pecan candy, made from sugar and cream, is a classic New Orleans street sweet.

This deep-fried chickpea ball, tucked into pita bread, is a Middle Eastern street-food staple.

Skewered and grilled, this Indonesian and Malaysian street dish is served with a rich peanut sauce.

This crunchy Mumbai snack mixes puffed rice, vegetables, and tangy chutneys in one bowl.

Grilled corn on the cob, slathered with mayonnaise, cheese, and chili powder, is this Mexican street classic.

This slow-cooked fava bean dish is a cheap, filling Egyptian street staple.

This meat is shaved off a slowly turning vertical spit and stuffed into flatbread across the Middle East and Turkey.

This mildly sweet Taiwanese tea drink gets its name from the chewy tapioca pearls settled at the bottom of the cup.

This flaky South Asian flatbread, cooked on a griddle, is sold hot from street vendors' stalls.

This Japanese rice ball, often wrapped in seaweed around a savory filling, is a portable street snack.

These Polish stuffed dumplings are a fixture of street fairs and outdoor markets.

This fermented rice-and-lentil crepe is a South Indian street-food classic, often filled with spiced potato.

This twisted, salted baked dough snack is a beer-garden and street-cart favorite in Germany and the US.

This thin, savory Chinese street-food crepe is folded around egg, herbs, and a crispy cracker.

This tomato-based, richly spiced rice dish sparks friendly rivalry between Nigeria and Ghana.

This Mexican sandwich, served on a crusty roll, can be filled with anything from meat to beans.

This corn-dough parcel, steamed inside a corn husk or banana leaf, dates back to Aztec market stalls.

This Indonesian meatball soup is a common cart food sold from mobile carts called gerobak.

Cooked on a hinged iron press, these gridded cakes are sold hot from Belgian street stands.

This El Salvadoran griddle cake is stuffed with cheese, beans, or pork before cooking.

This South African farmer's sausage is grilled at roadside stands and braais.

This wrapped and rolled Tex-Mex favorite can hold rice, beans, and meat inside a large flour tortilla.

Victorian Londoners bought this shellfish from street stalls, alongside whelks and eels.

Balls of battered octopus, grilled on a special molded pan, are an Osaka street-food icon.

This Brazilian fried pastry comes stuffed with cheese, meat, or hearts of palm.

Canada's contribution to street-food fame tops fries with cheese curds and brown gravy.

This spicy Korean rice-cake dish is simmered in a bright red gochujang sauce.

Grilled meat cooked over an open flame is called this across much of South America.

This Greek spit-roasted meat, wrapped in pita with tzatziki, shares its name with a spinning motion.

This Japanese wheat-noodle soup traces its roots to noodle dishes brought over by Chinese immigrants.

Mashed spiced vegetables served with buttered bread rolls make up this beloved Mumbai dish.

This Southeast Asian fried pastry is filled with a spiced curry mixture.

This Indonesian vegetable salad is dressed in a thick peanut sauce.

This dried, cured strip of meat is a South African snack food sold at roadside stands.

This crispy fried dough disc, shaped like a flying saucer and dipped in syrup, is an Indian sweet street treat.

This sesame-crusted bread ring is sold hot from carts on the streets of Istanbul.

Fresh or fried, this Vietnamese and Chinese snack wraps vegetables and sometimes meat in a thin wrapper.

Crisp hollow shells filled with spiced tamarind water are known by this name across much of India.

This Greek grilled-meat skewer is typically served wrapped in pita with tomato and onion.

Fried fish served alongside deep-fried potato slices is a beloved British seaside street meal.

This Mumbai potato fritter sandwiched in a bun is India's answer to the burger.

Spicy skewered meat, grilled over open flames, is a beloved Nigerian street snack.

Sold by the slice from countless city carts, this Neapolitan flatbread became a street-food staple worldwide.

These grilled cornmeal cakes, split and filled, are a staple street food in Venezuela and Colombia.

This Turkish spit-roasted meat, sliced thin, is the ancestor of the Greek gyro.

This triangular fried pastry stuffed with spiced potatoes is eaten across South Asia and beyond.

Roasted over open braziers, these nuts are a classic winter street snack across Europe.

Rice, lentils, pasta, and a spiced tomato sauce are layered together in this popular Egyptian dish.

This Korean rice roll, wrapped in seaweed around vegetables and meat, travels well as a portable snack.