If you were to visit China, then one of the things which should be included in your must-do list is to taste Chinese food – not just from the hotels but also from the street vendors. The countless types and varieties of Chinese street food are sure to leave you dumbfounded. Here are the top 10 tastiest and most interesting street foods of China.

The Exotic Collection Of Top 10 Chinese Street Foods

10. Chuanr

While it is more famous as an export food, it is one of the staple street foods available in China. Lamb kebabs flavored with chili and cumin seeds are cooked over coals. These foods taste delicious with beer, and that is the prime reason why you will be able to locate it in front of any club.

9. Xiao Long Bao

These are nothing but steamed buns with pork filling. The frozen pork filling melts gently when steamed along with the pastry, rendering a luring, mouthwatering aroma. Served in a bamboo steam basket, this tastes good with chili in oil and black vinegar.

8. Guotie

It literally translates into pot sticker. The dish gets its name from the way it is cooked. It is fried in an extremely hot pan with shallow oil. These shallow fried stuffed dumplings come with minced meat, chicken, or beef filling plus Chinese cabbage, ginger, scallions, spinach, sesame seed oil, as well as Chinese wine.

7. Jingdong Roubing

This fried meat pancake hails from Northern China. The meat used could be beef, mutton, or pork. The common variant comes as a wrap containing alternate layers of onion, pork, as well as pastry and is fried on either sides.

6. Xinjiang Nut Cake

A sweet food from the streets of China, it is rich with various nuts. In short, it can be considered as the Chinese variant of muesli bar. While it is not a very cheap snack, it is of course a filling treat for the street food aficionados.

5. Egg Roll

You feel that you are eating a pancake when you start but finally, it looks more like kebabs. A thin pancake layer is topped with cracked egg, beans or chili paste, spring onions, coriander, and at the end – a little pastry. This is then folded  in such a way that it becomes an easy to carry wrap.

4. Baozi

Fluffy buns stuffed with pork – these delicious street foods from China drag you into a world filled with flavors. Cooked in huge steam baskets, these come at a very cheap cost. A filling meal, you can opt for veggie version also.

3. Portuguese Egg Tarts or Danta

This, I should say, is a fusion of Chinese and Portuguese cuisines. Danta, which are very similar to the sweet egg tarts of Portugal, taste the best when enjoyed right out of the oven.

2. Chinese Shawarma

To keep it simple, this is the Chinese version of sandwich. This street food from China is a confluence of Chinese and Arabic cuisines. Cooked like the Arabian shawarma, the sole difference is that pork is most commonly used. The cut meat is flavored with spices and served in a bun lined with lettuce.

1. Tang Hu Lu

Skewered fruit delicacies are always delicious eats. This one from Chinese streets prepared mainly with Chinese hawthorn and covered with hardened sugar syrup are sweet delights. You can also find the skewers made with taro, sweet potato, as well as potato.

These are some delicious of the Chinese street foods which are sure to wow your senses. So do try them when you visit China.

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