Friday, July 24, 2015

What will become the next Popular Street Food

Based on all the previous posts which have described some of the most popular street foods such as doubles, bake and shark, corn soup, baiganee, pholourie, saheena, grill foods, gyros, Sweets (indian), catchorie, cow heel soup, chicken foot souse, roti, hot dogs and burgers, homemade ice cream and chow (pineapple, plum, mango). The next step would be to see what are the upcoming street foods.

Two items jump immediately to mind and these are Pepper Roti and Samosas.

Pepper roti has been largely confined to being made on the cooking night of a Hindu Wedding (the night before the actual wedding day). The expansion of pepper roti to being considered a street food started gaining popularity with each passing year an ever growing presence in what is called the divali nagar in trinidad, from here street sellers started selling them at the side of the road from styrotex coolers.

Pepper roti is a white flour roti stuffed with spicy hot scotch bonnet (congo) peppers, more peppers mean more heat, cheese, carrots potato and garlic to name but a few ingredients.
Pepper Roti

The other contender is the Samosa  a triangular pastry filled with seasoned potatoes. The samosa has started to gain popularity along with other foods from the asian continent as the influx of indian cooks from india and nepal are increasing in number in Trinidad. As this popularity grows i'm it won't be that long again before it becomes regular fare in Trinidad and Tobago.

Samosa
 Do you know or believe there is another street food that is gaining in popularity?
so drop me a comment.

4 comments:

  1. "breakfast of champions" - otherwise known as doubles in Trinidad and is gaining popularity in Tobago as well!

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  2. ofc its ah pepper roti ! :P :P

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  3. ofc its ah pepper roti ! :P :P

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