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Street food hygiene and regulation
Street food hygiene and regulation covers how mobile food vendors are licensed, inspected, and controlled; some countries have dedicated legislation while others rely on ad hoc local rules.
Street food in China
Street food in China is sold from temporary or mobile stalls without permanent premises, a practice dating to the Northern Song and policed by chengguan urban enforcement teams.
Street food in Indonesia
Street food in Indonesia is food sold from warung stalls, wheeled kaki lima carts, and night markets, supplying 50 to 80% of food intake for low-income urban workers.
Street food in media and popular culture
How documentaries and television portray street food, from Anthony Bourdain's demystifying travel shows to Netflix's Street Food series, Michelin stars for vendors, and scholarly criticism of authenticity.
Street food in Mexico
Street food in Mexico is food prepared and sold from public stalls, carts, and market stands, an informal trade with roughly 805,000 vendors in 2025.
String cheese
String cheese, also known as Cheesestring, is a snack cheese made from low-moisture mozzarella that can be peeled into strings, invented in Wisconsin in the mid-20th century.
Strip steak
Strip steak, also called New York strip or Kansas City strip, is a beef steak from the short loin's longissimus dorsi muscle after tenderloin removal; known for firm texture, beefy flavor, moderate marbling, and many regional names.
Stroh Brewery Company
Stroh Brewery Company: Detroit brewery founded by Bernhard Stroh in 1850, famous for fire-brewed Bohemian-style lager and its lion crest. Grew into America's third-largest brewer before debt from the Schlitz and Heileman acquisitions ended it in 1999; the Stroh's brand now belongs to Pabst.
Stromboli (food)
Stromboli is an Italian-American baked turnover of pizza or bread dough filled with cheese, cured meats, and vegetables, credited to a Philadelphia pizzeria in the 1950s and named after the 1950 film Stromboli.
Stroopwafel
Stroopwafel (syrup waffle): Dutch cookie of two thin waffle discs with syrup filling, invented in Gouda around 1810, credited to baker Gerard Kamphuisen; oldest recipe 1840, warmed on coffee.
Strudel
Strudel: Central European pastry of paper-thin stretched dough (Strudelteig) rolled around sweet or savory fillings; German for "whirlpool"; oldest recipe a 1696 Viennese Milchrahmstrudel; apple strudel is an Austrian national dish.
Stuffed peppers
Stuffed peppers: hollowed peppers filled with meat, rice, vegetables, or cheese, then baked or simmered. Known as töltött paprika, punjene paprike, ardei umpluți; Ottoman dolma lineage; US version dates to Fannie Farmer 1896.
Stuffing
Stuffing, also called filling or dressing, is a bread- or starch-based mixture cooked inside poultry or meat or baked separately. Key facts: 165 °F safe temperature, 3/4 cup per pound, regional U.S. naming, 1538 first English attestation.
Subway (restaurant)
Subway, founded 1965 as Pete's Super Submarines by Fred DeLuca and Dr. Peter Buck in Bridgeport, Connecticut, is the world's largest sub sandwich franchise, with nearly 37,000 outlets in over 100 countries; owned by Roark Capital since 2024, its U.S. unit count is shrinking.
Succotash
Succotash (Narragansett msickquatash, "boiled whole kernels of corn") is a North American dish of corn and beans, usually lima beans, rooted in Indigenous Three Sisters agriculture and adapted into Southern and New England cooking.
Sucralose
Sucralose (E 955, Splenda) is a chlorinated sucrose-derived artificial sweetener about 600 times sweeter than sugar; FDA-approved 1998-1999, EU ADI 15 mg/kg bw/day, heat stable.
Sucrose acetate isobutyrate
Sucrose acetate isobutyrate (SAIB, E 444, CAS 126-13-6), a mixture of fully esterified sucrose esters, is a density-adjusting agent stabilizing citrus flavor-oil emulsions in soft drinks at 150-300 ppm, with an ADI of 20 mg/kg bw per day.
Sugar plum
Sugar plum: a historical comfit or dragée, a seed, nut, or spice coated in about 30 hardened sugar layers, plum-shaped but plum-free; obsolete word behind Moore's 1823 poem and Tchaikovsky's Sugar Plum Fairy.
Sugarcane juice
Sugarcane juice, also called caldo de cana or guarapo, is the liquid pressed from sugarcane stalks, drunk fresh across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It spoils within hours through inversion, browning, and fermentation, and street-vended samples often exceed microbial limits.
Sugarloaf
Sugarloaf: a molded conical mass of hard refined sugar, the standard retail and export form from the Middle Ages until granulated and cube sugar replaced it in the late 19th century; also a shape term behind many hill names.
Sugary drink tax
Sugary drink tax (soda tax, SSB levy): excise on sugar-sweetened beverages, ad valorem, volume-based, or sugar-content-based. In 2023–2024, 103–116 countries taxed SSBs; a 10% tax cuts purchases about 10%.
Suiyuan shidan
Suiyuan shidan (随园食单, Recipes from the Garden of Contentment) is a Chinese cookbook by the Qing dynasty writer Yuan Mei, first published in 1792 and describing 326 dishes.
Sujuk
Sujuk (Turkish sucuk, Arabic سجق) is a dry-fermented beef or mutton sausage with garlic and spices, attested since the 11th century and spread by the Ottomans across the Balkans, Caucasus, and Middle East.
Sukiyabashi Jiro (すきやばし次郎)
Sukiyabashi Jiro (すきやばし次郎) is Jiro Ono's 10-seat Edomae sushi counter in Ginza, Tokyo, founded in 1965, three Michelin stars 2007–2019, subject of Jiro Dreams of Sushi, now led by son Yoshikazu.
Sukiyaki
Sukiyaki (すき焼き), Japanese beef hot pot cooked in warishita of soy sauce, mirin, and sugar and dipped in raw egg; Kanto and Kansai styles differ in searing versus simmering, arising from Meiji-era gyu nabe.
Sun Drop
Sun Drop, also marketed as Sundrop, is a caffeinated citrus soft drink made with orange juice concentrate and long popular in the Carolinas and Tennessee, reaching national distribution in 2011.
Sunday roast
Sunday roast: traditional British meal of roasted beef, lamb, pork, or chicken (also Sunday joint, roast dinner, Sunday lunch) with roast potatoes, vegetables, gravy, and Yorkshire pudding; disputed medieval or Tudor origins, now 1.28 billion UK roast occasions a year.
Sunfeast
Sunfeast is ITC Limited's Indian packaged-food brand, launched July 2003 with glucose, Marie, and cream biscuits; now a Rs.2,500+ crore brand spanning biscuits, Dark Fantasy cookies, YiPPee! noodles (No. 2 in India), pasta, and cakes.
Sung Anh (안성재)
Sung Anh (안성재, Anh Sung-jae or Ahn Sung-jae) is a Korean-American chef, owner-chef of Mosu Seoul, three Michelin stars in 2023, and judge on Netflix's Culinary Class Wars.
Sunjae (선재)
Sunjae (선재), born 1956, is a Korean Buddhist nun designated the Jogye Order's first temple food master, known for her research institute in Yangpyeong, her recovery from cirrhosis through temple food, and her Netflix Culinary Class Wars season 2 appearance.