Street Food From Around the World: Tacos, Churros, Falafel and Samosas

Ten street foods you can eat standing up: Mexican tacos, Spanish churros, French crêpes, Venezuelan and Colombian arepas, Latin American empanadas, Middle Eastern falafel, the Greek gyro, the Turkish kebab, the German pretzel and the Indian samosa. Each one is cheap, quick and made to be eaten on the go.

Taco is the only diagonal word. Empanada, falafel and pretzel run upward.

Street Food Vocabulary: 10 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down, and diagonally; 4 of the 10 read backwards. The longest word is Empanada, with 8 letters.

Arepa: A round, flat cornmeal cake from Venezuela and Colombia, split and stuffed with fillings.
Churro: A fried dough stick from Spain, rolled in sugar and dipped in hot chocolate.
Crepe: Crêpe: a very thin French pancake, filled with sweet or savory fillings.
Empanada: A baked or fried pastry turnover filled with meat, cheese or vegetables, eaten across Latin America.
Falafel: Deep-fried balls of ground chickpeas or fava beans with herbs, from the Middle East.
Gyro: Greek meat cooked on a vertical spit and wrapped in pita with tomato, onion and tzatziki.
Kebab: Meat grilled on a skewer or a vertical spit, eaten from Turkey to the Middle East and beyond.
Pretzel: A twisted, baked bread knot with a shiny brown crust, from Germany.
Samosa: A fried pastry triangle filled with spiced potatoes and peas, from India.
Taco: Mexican street tacos, small soft tortillas with meat, onion and cilantro.

How to Solve the Street Food Word Search

"Pretzel" has the only Z, "kebab" the only K and "gyro" the only Y; kebab and gyro read normally across. "Churro" has a double R and runs straight down. "Taco" is the only diagonal word.

Street Food Around the World Activities

Match each food to its country on a world map.
Ask which ones are fried, baked or grilled.
Hold a mini street food fair with two or three dishes from the list.