Introduction

Street food constitutes up to 40% of the daily diet of urban consumers in the developing world. The simple, yet, exotic flavours also make street food cuisine an increasingly popular dish in every part of the world - with markets, recipe books and even restaurants specialising in dishes from the streets of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Yet, the rich cultural importance of street food is fragile. Globalisation and urban development threaten these age-old traditions and, despite street food’s vital importance to local communities, there are serious health issues to contend with. Street food generally cheap, prepare a la minute, and mostly no comfortable eating area and facilities provided. This means, the food have to be enjoy either by standing next to the stall or sit at the limited chair and sometimes, some vendor do provide the table for their customer or the most suitable way to enjoy street food is simply to eat it while waking. We do wonder why people go for the street food. Is it because of the price (not to say that people who consume street food are poor), or the taste (undeniable fact that some of the street food taste even better than the one that they serve in a fancy restaurant)…or because of the limited time and hectic style of living in urbanized area where people don’t have so many time to sit, wait and enjoy the food. Above all, this is all the matter of preference and the reason can be subjective. For us, the reason we select street food as the tourism “products” that we want to promote in our blog is that, street food in Malaysia like in any other part of the world had become the lifeblood in the community. We cannot deny the fact that majority of the Malaysia population do enjoy and savour the street food. We were grown up in this environment and this environment had become part of our culture and this need to be preserved for future generation. Some might say street food can bring a negative impact to our health, because of the location of the stall whereby the food served at the stall easily exposed to biological hazards and more. Yes, in other way, this statement cannot be rejected yet the fact that street food normally associated with unhealthy food had become the issue that build up the obstacle for the sustainability of the street food culture all over the world. Despite off all this issue, we still insist on promoting street food because we still believe that street food can be one of the successful businesses in food industry and street food also effectively represent the culinary culture of Malaysia. Enjoy our post!!!   ^_^