Street Food in Israel

Food for thought on Israel's streets

Street food is enjoying a revival around the world ... and the Israeli street is packed with mouth-watering morsels.

If you enjoy food, then in Israel you don't have to splash out on expensive restaurants, instead you can enjoy one of the many inexpensive eateries that line the streets of the country's cities and towns.

Fresh, authentic and quintessentially Mideast fare is on offer -- from falafel, deep-fried balls of mashed chickpeas, fava beans and herbs; to shwarma, slices of turkey, chicken or lamb shaved off a huge slab of meat rotating on a big spit; or hummus, a spread made of crushed chickpeas, tehini sauce, lemon, olive oil, salt and garlic.

For the connoisseurs, there's also sabich, a sandwich made of fried eggplant, hard-boiled egg, salad and a mango pickle; shakshuka, a pan-fried casserole of poached eggs and spicy tomato sauce; or bourekas, pastry dough stuffed with mushrooms, mashed potato, spinach or cheese.

In an age when fast food has become synonymous with junk food, Israel's street food vendors are proving that fast food doesn't have to be tasteless or unhealthy.

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[jhrush1]

Wish i was there to try some of the food. Looks good...

[omerlugassi]

Yeah, smart ones, off course Falafel and Hummus are Arab dishes, so what???

They do it amazingly delicious in Israel. By the way, the best hummus in Israel is made by Arabs themselves, in places like Jaffa, Haifa and Jerusalem.

They make such a respect for Arabic food in Israel. Arab and oriental foods are very popular all over Israel, although Tel Aviv is the world's second-largest Sushi empire after Tokyo, and also an empire of Italian, Asian and Balkan food.

VARIETY is the name of the game!

[ForgottenEasternJews]

@NotAgain90 People think Israel stole everything. Hell don't people know that the middle eastern food was brought in by Jews from Arab lands? Most of Israeli Jews are from Arab lands.

[Kcorp2003]

@Nannawiie To settle the matter.. no one should claim the disk origin. probably came out during Egypt's Pharaonic Period or in the Indian subcontinent. But there's no solid fact to backed it up.

[DynamicMindLv]

Falafal is not Israel...

[AntiCule00]

אני רומאי, עבדתי Ashod ואני טופל היטב ... VIVA ISRAEL

[8urfutrkin]

man my mouth is literary watering! i miss israeli food!

[Rikifighter]

the "new" book hahaha.. All the food is from arabia

[eltorito13]

one day i will go there the holy land of israel.

[NotAgain90]

@Nannawiie don't get your panties in a twist - falafel exists all over Middle East and each culture adds to it... Israel stole notting - and definitely not from you.

[9802972371]

ny jew accent raght hare