Traveling the world on a budget gets to be even more fun and delectable with certain cities offering their street food cultures.
Below is short guide to the best bites in some of the world's most popular cities:
1. Ensenada, Mexico
The tacos de pescado in the Baja port town of Ensenada demand a special pilgrimage. Join the masses at the city's fish market for corn tortillas piled high with battered fried halibut, shredded cabbage, pickled onions, avocado, jalapeños and sweet-tangy crema-mayonnaise sauce.
2. Puerto Rico
The food stands along Piñones Road about 30 miles east of San Juan make some of the island's best frituras or fried snacks: coconut arepas, piononos (plantains stuffed with beef) and bacalaitos — a mixture of pancake dough and salted cod. If you hit the strip around sunset, you might even catch an impromptu salsa-thon.
3. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Health-conscious locals hit up Ipanema's Sunday market in Praça General Osório square for grilled-shrimp skewers and a fresh coconut drink or an acai shake from one of the stands along Copacabana Beach.
4. Marrakech, Morocco
In the city's rambling medina, grilled-meat hawkers will cook to order any cut you bring from one of the many nearby butchers. In the evening, check out to the night market at Jemaa el-Fna and settle in at the communal tables for chickpea stew, boiled snails and strong mint tea poured the traditional way: from a pot held perilously high above the glass.
5. Brussels, Belgium
Brussels is all about the frites. At the city's standard-bearer, the Maison Antoine kiosk in Place Jourdan, the secret to success is in the sauces: pineapple ketchup, beer-flavored carbonnade, and mayonnaise so tasty it's almost a dish unto itself.