Best Street Food Sweets In The World: All The Deets About Three Indian Sweets That Made It To Top 50

To experience an area's or nation’s unique culture and cuisine, explore their street food. The street food provides a wide variety of cost-effective and convenient options that emphasise the region's distinctive flavour. Recently, Taste Atlas, an online experience travel guide for traditional cuisine, released a list of the 50 Best Street Food Sweets In The World, collecting authentic recipes, feedback from culinary experts, and research about popular dishes and their ingredients across the world.

Taste Atlas revealed this list with a caption, “Portuguese pastel de nata leads the list of the best street food sweets! What is your favourite?”

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And India is proud to see three Indian sweets that made it to this list. It also highlighted the ratings scored by these sweets. Scroll down to know more:

1. Rank 14: Mysore Pak

The popular Mysore Pak is made up of just three ingredients, sugar, ghee, and gram flour. It originated from the kitchens of the Royal Mysore Palace. It is said to be made first by Palace cook Kakasura Madappa. The Indian market today offers many different variations in addition to the original Mysore Pak.

Score: 4.4

2. Rank 18: Kulfi

Kulfi is one of the most famous frozen desserts in India. It achieved rank 18 in the top 50 best street food sweets in the world. It is known for its rich and creamy texture.

Score: 4.3

3. Rank 32: Kulfi Falooda

In North India, kulfi and falooda are combined to create the tasty chilled street food dessert known as kulfi falooda. It is an outstanding rendition of kulfi served with vermicelli noodles, rose syrup, dried fruits, and several other delicious toppings.

Score: 4.1

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Karnataka's Deputy CM DK Shivakumar’s Tweet On This Achievement

ಟೇಸ್ಟ್‌ ಅಟ್ಲಾಸ್‌ ಪ್ರಕಟಿಸಿರುವ ವಿಶ್ವದ ಟಾಪ್‌ 50 ಬೀದಿಬದಿ ಸಿಹಿ ತಿನಿಸುಗಳ ಪೈಕಿ ಮೈಸೂರ್‌ ಪಾಕ್‌ 14ನೇ ಸ್ಥಾನ ಪಡೆದಿರುವುದು ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರ ಹೆಮ್ಮೆ. ನನ್ನ ತಂದೆಯವರು ಹಾಗೂ ಮನೆಗೆ ಬರುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಕರು ಆಗಾಗ್ಗೆ ಮೈಸೂರು ಪಾಕ್‌ ತಂದಾಗ ಹಂಚಿ ತಿನ್ನುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಬಾಲ್ಯದ ನೆನಪುಗಳು ಹಾಗೇ ಇವೆ. ಮೈಸೂರು ಅರಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಜನ್ಮತಾಳಿದ ಮೈಸೂರ್… pic.twitter.com/ryGQe9HzxC

— DK Shivakumar (@DKShivakumar) July 21, 2023

DK Shivakumar, the Deputy CM of Karnataka, expressed his happiness at the result on Twitter and wrote, “Kannadigas are proud that Mysore Pak has been ranked 14th among the world's top 50 street sweets published by Taste Atlas. My childhood memories of sharing mysore pak when my father and relatives who came home often brought me still. The hard work and skill of millions of chefs lie behind the Mysore Pak, which was born in the Mysore Palace and reaches every household today. All of them deserve credit for this”, he tweeted in Kannada.

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Top 5 Best Street Food Sweets In The World

According to TasteAtlas, the top five best street food sweets in the world are:

1. Pastel de nata

2. Serabi

3. Dondurma

4. Hotteok

5. Pa thong ko

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