Q 01/05

Which Southeast Asian street food is skewered, grilled meat served with a peanut sauce?

A) Rendang

B) Satay

C) Laksa

D) Nasi goreng

Answer · why

B) Satay

Satay grew out of the kebabs that Muslim traders carried east along the trade routes; cooks in Southeast Asian port cities adapted them with bite-size...

Q 02/05

Banh mi, a baguette sandwich with roots in French colonial rule, is a street food from which Southeast Asian country?

A) Thailand

B) Laos

C) Cambodia

D) Vietnam

Answer · why

D) Vietnam

Vietnam got the baguette from the French in the 1860s, but the sandwich took its modern form on the streets of 1950s Saigon, and Vietnamese emigrants ...

Q 03/05

Which Middle Eastern street food is a deep-fried ball of ground chickpeas or fava beans?

A) Shawarma

B) Kibbeh

C) Falafel

D) Kofta

Answer · why

C) Falafel

Falafel most likely began in the Nile valley, where it is still made with fava beans and called ta'amiya; chickpeas took over as the fritter spread ac...

Q 04/05

Which ridged, sugar-dusted fried dough is street food across Spain and Latin America?

A) Beignet

B) Donut

C) Churro

D) Zeppole

Answer · why

C) Churro

The churro gets its ridges from being piped into hot oil through a star-shaped nozzle; in Spain the thicker version is called a porra and is dipped in...

Q 05/05

Which griddle-cooked Japanese savory pancake is built on shredded cabbage and batter?

A) Takoyaki

B) Dorayaki

C) Okonomiyaki

D) Taiyaki

Answer · why

C) Okonomiyaki

Okonomiyaki is a wheat-batter pancake packed with shredded cabbage and cooked on a teppan griddle; its name means roughly 'grilled as you like it', si...