What is the best food you've had while travelling?

Portugal, years ago when you could watch the fishermen throw the creels in a line up to waiting restaurants. Straight on the BBQ, new pots. simple salad and Vinho Verde.
"Sandwiches" on the creek in Dubai.
Mackerel in a pub in Mevagissey.
I'm boring you now but could go on .......

Oooo I forgot one. Gyros in... of all places, Whitley Bay from a street food truck.

Stomach is grumbling just thinking about it.

So many that I can't recall. A few lunches spring to mind. Mussels and chips in La Rochelle. Crab sandwiches at The Pilchard Inn on Burgh Island. Lots of lovely fish and chips at the seaside in the UK.

A feast in Jordan, hummus like you never tasted, huge roast lamb, fresh dates, after a memorable walk to Petra.

I agree with you Marydoll. Bratwurst from street vendors are "lecker", especially with potato salad and mustard. I have many happy memories of eating them.

A street market near Arles in France; the local cheese made from sheeps milk, huge great tomatoes and crusty bread.
And many years ago, 1959, I rode on the back of a motor bike to London in pouring rain. We got completly lost somewhere around Staines and managed to find a pub where we had the best ham roll in the world with lots of mustard. I was pregnant at the time.

Souvlaki on Crete. When I was much younger, I spent nearly six months living semi-rough and I would have souvlaki with coffee for breakfast.

A group shared meal of rainbow fish and a variety of accompaniments at a family restaurant reached by river and organised by the Vietnamese guide

Cod and chips on the seafront in Pembrokeshire .

Ps this was not a fancy restaurant, just a little place down a side street.
My DH is wary of street food so we hardly ever buy it.

We had the best pasta pie in little hotel in Limone, Italy while we were holidaying around Lake Garda.
The pastry was the best I've ever eaten.

Grilled octopus in Greece, Potatoes bravas in Spain, lobster in Maine. It’s time for breakfast and I already fancy dinner because of this thread.

Sorry I didn’t properly read your OP. Re street food.

In that case hot dogs in Copenhagen with mustard ketchup and crunchy onions.

FannyCornforth

A Chinese 'restaurant' in South Goa.
It wasn't fancy, but it did have lots of fairy lights, and the most delicious spring rolls ever. Lovely memories.

Fanny, I don't know if you ever went to Betty's, near The Holiday Inn, in South Goa. Their vindaloo was fantastic - not too spicy but very 'fruity' and tasty.

We arrived one year and were exhausted after the journey, went and had vindaloo for lunch and went back in the evening and my husband had it again!

Sadly I fear we won't be able to go to Goa again.

Doesn't QUITE meet my own criteria, but a wonderful Mexican restaurant in the middle of Shanghai. The refried beans were the best I've ever eaten. Even better than New Mexico.

Ironically, at my last UK school one of the English teachers had also previously worked in Shanghai and we reminisced very fondly about the refritoes, the mango salsa and the bottomless Margaritas.

Maybe. Le cheval rouge in chisseaux, in the Loire valley. Found by chance aeons ago, returned three times and were remembered by the lovely waitress. Food was just spectacular.
We would cheerfully drive 50 miles detour to revisit.

Or a small family run restaurant in Volpaia, Tuscany. Found by chance. The best homemade ravioli with sage and butter.....

A lobster roll in Province New England. All the best ingredients and delicious. Unfortunately some of the others we tried thereafter were inedible!

Fish and chips in Whitby eaten outdoors. Chips cooked in dripping at the Black Country Museum.

Plaice and chips on Aldeburgh beach.

A pesto and pine nut pasta meal in a Chicago restaurant.

The absolute best was a variety of foods touring on the back of mopeds through Ho Chi Minh city for a foodie tour. Although I balked at the fermented eggs!
It was an experience no food I’d be able to replicate though.
You can probably utube to find something like it.

Torched salmon and salad, eaten perched on a bar stool in a hotel in Salt Lake City.
Our tour guide watched me enjoying it, said he wished he’d chosen that and would try it next time he was on a tour there.

A bratwurst inside a crusty roll, cooked in an oil drum in Nürnberg by a street vendor.
As a poor student, I had travelled all the way from Glasgow by train , was horrendously seasick in the North Sea and this was the first food I had eaten for days, it was nectar.

To this day, the smell of bratwurst cooking, takes me back to those happy, but somewhat reckless days! Thank goodness, my mother never knew about half of my escapades! ?

WWW, enjoy your trip!

In Oporto, on the harbour - a salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and onion with an olive oil and lemon dressing. Served with homemade bread, it was heavenly.

A seafood paella in Barcelona

A steak sandwich with peas and gravy at an Amish restaurant in America.