Portland has the best streetfood in the WORLD?

I disagree. But whatever. I guess if your idea of street food is a bunch of inauthentic food carts marketed towards white hipsters with quality of food roughly equal to that at a carnival...then yeah. I guess.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/07/19/worlds.best.street.food/index.html

 

I mean, they're not bad. But you can't compare them to something authentic like street markets in Asia or any Mercado in latin america. Street carts just miss that about them.

 

On a side note, has anyone been to The Bite? I've seen some billboards. Not sure if it would be a good experience, or not.

Thanks in advance.

 

fwiw I don't think they pay any kind of property tax, and don't have any laws about having to move their location every 24 hours unlike some other cities.

 

i must be sleeping on the food carts in portland, haven't ate at any of them..someone recommend me one to eat next time i'm in portland

 

Webster's Dictionary.

Mainly, I like foods which are made by poor people looking to survive and provide foods they have been cooking for hundreds of years...hence the differentiation from a sit-down restaurant. A food cart/truck more often than not is either an ironic update on childhood favorites or some extension of an actual restaurant. There's very little soul and character other than something feigned.

 

Its kind of the same in LA....they are starting to crack down on it though. Its getting pretty rediculous...there's a street food fair this weekend.
http://lastreetfoodfest.com/

which ironically is taking place in a football stadium, has tickets for admission, media coverage and corporate sponsors..the polar opposite of "street food" IMO.

I heard last year they did this there were 2 hour lines to get into the events and you had to wait another 45-minutes to an hour to get served at some of the more "gourmet" food trucks.

 

Portland, FTW!

 

Have you even been to any of the food carts in Portland lately? There are plenty of those two types of carts to choose from.

 

Portland/s street carts are nowhere near as good or authentic as carnival food.

Corn Fritters! Funnel Cakes! Caramel Apples!

Now that's good eats.

 

I went to one last christmas...some Thai one... very mediocre that was a stall. The other one was Koi Fusion....korean tacos.

What I'm seeing more and more is that the REAL taco trucks are being overrun by clean, vanilla versions of food. Its a downward trend...I liken it to mom and pop stores being taken over by mini-malls.

I go to the food trucks here in Venice pretty frequently....the food is pretty mediocre almost across the board...but they're right there....so sometimes I go. Sure there's variety, but some of the campiness of it all really rubs me the wrong way. And the lines.

 

this is Street Food:



this is just a restaurant on wheels fueled by hype:

 

most def. Carnival food is the shit...its a lot better than much of the "street food" in fact....Corn Dogs!

 

come on....do ya got this in PDX?

 

Best tacos/street food I've had ever. Mexico City.

each taco was about 50-60cents. the bomb. all the meats stewed in that pot.....insanely good. eyeballs, brains, cactus...all in there!

I've had the Kogi Korean Tacos...they are quite good, I admit, but much of the imitators are just quick buck artists that bastardize the entire concept of street food IMO. Kind of picky, but that's how i feel......everything goes corporate sooner or later.