This street food market is a hidden gem of Downtown Los Angeles. Smorgasburg first opened in 2016 as an expansion of the Smorgasburg food market in Brooklyn, NYC. The Brooklyn Smorgasburg food market opened in 2011 after food vendors were extremely popular in the Brooklyn Flea Market. The name is a combination of Smorgasbord (Swedish word for a buffet meal) and Williamsburg (area in Brooklyn). The LA Smorgasburg is located on 777 S Alameda St and every Sunday from 10am to 4pm, it hosts over 90 LA small food businesses. The couple vendors I tried featured very creative concepts. I tried Hawaiian coffee from Kavahana and had an iced strawberry latte. They add Kava Nectar to the coffee, a juice made from kava plant roots grown on Vanuatu's islands in the South Pacific. It tingles your tongue and is supposed to make you feel relaxed. I did not enjoy the taste of Kava Nectar, though it was a cool experience trying it and I did like the strawberry coffee. Another cool stall I tried was Champignon Eats, plant-based fried mushroom sandwiches that taste just like fried chicken sandwiches. It was maybe the best thing I had at Smorgasburg. Perfectly crispy, not overly drenched in the aioli, with a soft bun and fresh tomatoes and lettuce. On the mushroom note, I also had MANEATINGPLANT and had a beer-battered king oyster mushroom bao bun, a Char Siu BBQ king oyster mushroom bao bun, and a smashed cucumber salad. My last bite to eat was HGG Tanghulu. Tanghulu is a Chinese snack of crunchy sugar-coated fruit skewers. I had the blueberry fruit skewer as well as the mixed fruit (strawberry, orange, grape, blueberry) skewer and they were so good, possibly one of my new favorite desserts.

This is the oldest street food market in Spain, dating back to medieval times when it used to be a temporary open-air market. Mostly meats were sold at this market. Boqueria is actually Catalan for place where goat meats are sold and boc in Catalan means goat. It was located outside Barcelona's gates on a square called the Pla de la Boqueria. In the 19th century, the market became covered and moved to the Convent of Sant Josep after the Convent burned down. The new location is actually right next to the busy pedestrian street La Rambla in the center of Barcelona. In the Mercat de la Boqueria, you can now find tropical and exotic fruit stands, smoothies and juices, adorable candies, jamon ibérico and other meats, paella, eggs, fish, olive oil, olives, peppers, and more. They have more than 300 food vendor stalls. One thing that I think you should definitely get in this market are turrones, Spanish nougats made out of honey, almonds, sugar, and egg whites. They are usually hard and crunchy, but I've also tried a soft turrón called Turrón de Jijona and like the soft ones best. This market has chaotic energy but is where gastronomy is at its peak.