In a survey by Dutch e-commerce travel website Booking.com, 61% out of over 75,000 travellers from all over the world say they pick travel destinations for its great food and drink.
Citing Southeast Asia as the best region to try local cuisine, Booking.com named two places in Malaysia in its list of Top 10 destinations to taste local food - Ipoh, Perak and Johor Bahru
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Ipoh 'taugeh chicken' with 'hor fun'. The full list of Top Destinations for Tasting Local Food:
1. Ipoh, Malaysia2. Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2. Kaohsiung, Taiwan
3. Nagoya, Japan
4. Johor Bahru, Malaysia5. João Pessoa, Brazil
6. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
7. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
8. Colmar, France
9. Lima, Peru
10. Catania, Italy
Yep, Penang and Sarawak didn't make the list. #triggered
- Shoon Huat Bak Kut Teh in Johor Bahru.
- Strangely enough, no Malaysian locations were named in the site's list of Top Five destinations for street food and food trucks
- The list of Top Destinations for Street Food include:
1. Jeonju, South Korea
2. Hsinchu City, Taiwan
3. Marrakech, Morocco
4. New York City, USA
5. Mexico City, Mexico
Meanwhile, these are the locations listed for Top Destinations for Food Trucks:
1. Portland, USA
2. Sao Paulo, Brazil
3. Seoul, South Korea
4. Bangkok, Thailand
5. Istanbul, Turkey - The survey, which was conducted in August and October last year, collected responses from 75,236 respondents from all over the world
