Street foods are often regional, though many are not, having spread beyond their region of origin.

Besides, they are cheap.

The street food culture is found all over the world but particularly prevalent in the continent of Asia.

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If you love traveling and eating street food, you will enjoy this fascinating picture gallery.

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A Palestinian youth sells strawberries on Feb. 16 in Jerusalem’s Old City Muslim quarter.

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A fruit seller stands by his roadside shop in Mumbai on Sept. 16, 2010.

A Saudi man eats watermelon at the bazaar in Dhahran, 400kms east of the capital Riyadh on May 16, 2008. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

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A young family queue for ice cream on Ainsdale beach on April 19 in northwest England.

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Nepalese vendors wait for customers at a vegetable market outside Kathmandu on Feb. 16.

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Afghan women buy grapes from a street vendor in Kabul on Aug. 26, 2010.

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Dilma Rousseff, wearing red in the newspaper, would later win the presidency in a run-off vote.

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A child enjoys a meat skewer in Beijing on Feb. 15, 2011.

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