The bright yellow and green Ta Bom ( www.tabomtruck.com) serves Brazilian specialties like pasteles (crisp pastries) of ground beef, cheese or banana, and the Hamburgao, a burger piled high with scrambled eggs, bacon, French-fried potato sticks, corn and more.

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The operator of Taco Bell and KFC restaurant chains has made its Pizza Hut chain into a nice restaurant in the country, deemed by some contemporary Chinese to be a great place for a first date, while introducing products such as fried dough sticks, egg tarts and shrimp burgers to suit local tastes.

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Carnivores will have their fill perusing the manifold satay sticks, fried fish, barbeque rib and meatball stands stationed market-wide: perfect fuel for another few hours on the go, before heading homeward, arms heavily laden, to refresh, relax, and perhaps regroup for a second Chatuchak shopping spree on Sunday.

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The Top Hat Cafe in Ridgeville, Indiana (where a sign behind the bar reads "Absolutely no arguing or fighting or you are barred") served up deep-fried pickles, like mozzarella sticks but saltier.

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