Roadside Menu - Culinary Travel Videos
We love to travel, and the best way to learn about a culture is through food. Often the best food is right out there on the street - most of these clips will have us with our feet on the pavement while our food is prepped, cooked, and eaten.
Roadside Menu videos
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Holts Hotel
Iceland
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Light Vegetarian
Hong Kong
A great place for lunch in Kowloon Hong Kong
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Prawns on Lamma
Hong Kong Treats
We stopped in at Rainbow Seafood and had the chef cook up a huge table of tasty treats.
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Lunch on Lamma Island
Hong Kong
We get inside the kitchen at Rainbow seafood restaurant on Lamma island Hong Kong.
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Namche Bazar
Bakery in Nepal
High in the Himalayas is the town of Namche Bazar, the only way in is a treacherous walk through the mountains. This is waht happens in the bakery every morning.
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Eggy Tarts!
Hong Kong
We get behind the scenes in Central to see how these egg custard tarts are made.The first thing I do when I arrive in Hong Kong is run out for some of these local treats.
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Snake Soup
Hong Kong
A winter season specialty is snake soup, and we go right to the source in Kowloon - Shia Wong Hip. Here you can get ready made soup from non-poisonous snakes, or for the more adventurous, have a deadly cobra (or worse) made to order.
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Won-Ton Soup.
Hong Kong
Mak’s Noodle is a Hong Kong institution, where the house specialty is shrimp won-ton noodle soup.
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Hot Dogs in Reykjavik
Iceland
What do you eat when in Reykjavik? Well why not start off with the locals down by the harbour and have a hot dog from a stand that's been there since 1927.
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Beijing Night Market
China
We take a stroll through a night food market in Beijing China, in this installment of "Roadside Menu".
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Shanghai Hairy Crabs
Hong Kong
At the New Sam Yung market in Hong Kong, Glen and Sidney stop by to learn about the Shanghai hairy crabs, and to get a lesson in tying them up.
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Icelandic Lamb Soup
Iceland
We recently went to Iceland, and one of the real treats on the trip was this simple soup made from Icelandic lamb. A great example of how an unassuming restaurant can produce incredible food.
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Face off in Reykjavik
Iceland
Down at the bus terminal we tuck into a Icelandic specialty; boiled sheep head. Actually quite tasty, even with the smell of putrified shark wafting in from the desert plate.
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Putrified Shark
Iceland
Yes in Iceland they really do eat Hakarl or putrified shark, and man does it smell bad. While we were talking about this "delicacy" the locals were walking up to the table and helping themselves to a taste. In the end I ate two pieces.
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Savor Seattle Tour
Seattle USA
Julie takes the Savor Seattle food tour of Pike Place Market, with tour guide Angela Shen. First stop - We learn some of the history behind the Market.
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Kowloon Food Court
Hong Kong
Glen & Sidney stop for lunch at a local food court where they have steamed rice rolls at one of the last places in Hong Kong that makes it.
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Clay Pot Rice
Hong Kong
Glen and Sidney stop into a roadside stall at the Temple street market in Hong Kong. On the table-- Clay Pot Rice with pork and sausage. Some of the best food in Hong Kong.
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Stinky Tofu
Hong Kong
Deep fried fermented tofu… there aren’t many things that smell worse than this, but we give it a try anyway!
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Afternoon Snack
Hong Kong
Glen & Coco stop at a popular street-side stand in the ladies market for some fish balls…
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Grilled Sambol Shrimp
Such incredible flavour!
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Make Vanilla Extract
Make at home for deeper flavour
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Bread Pudding
With Glenfiddich Whisky
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Short Bread
Melt in your mouth
Gran always said that it was the Rice flour that made the difference.
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So Easy!
This stuff almost makes itself...
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