Delicious food that satisfies your taste buds and your wallet
When the prospect of going to Australia recently came up， of my first thoughts was： "meat pies." I discovered them on my first visit in 1990. the meat is lean and tasty， and the rich salty gravy marvelously moistens the warm doughy crust. Meat pies sit high on my all-star roster of international street foods.
Every body's writing these days about ways to keep the costs of travel down： renting bicycles or staying in hostels. But nobody mentions eating street food. A story on France will claim that you can save on lunch by having a picnic. A picnic！ You need time， money， utensils for a picnic！ Buy a tzatziki-dripping gyro from a guy in a window， and you still have enough change to have a crepe from dessert.
I got my first taste of foreign street food in Paris. I had arrived at the Gare du Nord and set off on foot down a sun-dappled boulevard. After about 10 minutes I came to a stand selling hot dogs. The man took a hunk of haguette and lathered the inside of the bread with Dijon mustard. Then he inserted the steaming sausage. I took a bite， and suddenly all the reports of French culture， sophistication， superiority make sense-for they had taken a childhood staple and turned it into a crusty， tongue-tingling masterpiece.
On subsequent visits to Paris， I graduated to more exotic takeaways. The narrow streets of the Latin Quarter blazed with Greek restaurants where uncooked kebabs slept in vast， colorful rows. You could get a gyro-shards of spiced lamb always stuffed into French bread.
This is the other thing about street food： It's not only cheap and delicious， it's almost always illuminating about the place.
Word
Roster （n） a list of items or mames
Tzatziki （n） a Greek dip make from yogurt， dill. Cucumber and garlic
Gyro （n） a food consisiting of a flat， pocket-shaped brad， filled with lamb and vegetables
Gare du nord （n phr） the busiest station in the Paris rapid transit system
Staple （n） a basic food， or a main product or material
Kebab （n） a dish consisting of small pieces of meat and vegetables that have been put on a long thin stick or metal rod and cooked together
illuminating （adj） explaining something more clearly
When the prospect of going to Australia recently came up， of my first thoughts was： "meat pies." I discovered them on my first visit in 1990. the meat is lean and tasty， and the rich salty gravy marvelously moistens the warm doughy crust. Meat pies sit high on my all-star roster of international street foods.
Every body's writing these days about ways to keep the costs of travel down： renting bicycles or staying in hostels. But nobody mentions eating street food. A story on France will claim that you can save on lunch by having a picnic. A picnic！ You need time， money， utensils for a picnic！ Buy a tzatziki-dripping gyro from a guy in a window， and you still have enough change to have a crepe from dessert.
I got my first taste of foreign street food in Paris. I had arrived at the Gare du Nord and set off on foot down a sun-dappled boulevard. After about 10 minutes I came to a stand selling hot dogs. The man took a hunk of haguette and lathered the inside of the bread with Dijon mustard. Then he inserted the steaming sausage. I took a bite， and suddenly all the reports of French culture， sophistication， superiority make sense-for they had taken a childhood staple and turned it into a crusty， tongue-tingling masterpiece.
On subsequent visits to Paris， I graduated to more exotic takeaways. The narrow streets of the Latin Quarter blazed with Greek restaurants where uncooked kebabs slept in vast， colorful rows. You could get a gyro-shards of spiced lamb always stuffed into French bread.
This is the other thing about street food： It's not only cheap and delicious， it's almost always illuminating about the place.
Word
Roster （n） a list of items or mames
Tzatziki （n） a Greek dip make from yogurt， dill. Cucumber and garlic
Gyro （n） a food consisiting of a flat， pocket-shaped brad， filled with lamb and vegetables
Gare du nord （n phr） the busiest station in the Paris rapid transit system
Staple （n） a basic food， or a main product or material
Kebab （n） a dish consisting of small pieces of meat and vegetables that have been put on a long thin stick or metal rod and cooked together
illuminating （adj） explaining something more clearly