Street Food: Latin America (2020) User Reviews

Food: the mirror of the roots.

[rooneyaz · 8/10 · 23 July 2020]

It's really great how the documentary shows the roots and traditions of those Latinoamerican countries, and how its food is the outcome of thousand of year of traditions, but also the result of braves hearts of common people that found in street cuisine a way to raise their children, and keep they hope and passion alive.

Of course, after you finish the serie, you will have the necessity on your heart to go to those places and eat that marvelous food.

A series about Passion

[jditch · 9/10 · 3 August 2020]

I just thought this was going to be another food show. Wrong!

There is so much life and passion in this show! The storytelling is absolutely peak film making. The show repeatedly demonstrates it's directors ability to not only make your mouth water, but your heart beat faster at the amazing stories of the people behind the food.

I loved every second.

Primarily the story of indomitable women surviving through food

[ociopia · 10/10 · 27 July 2020]

Mostly these are women's stories though there is one absolutely precious Japanese man, third generation. We go from Mexico to Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Columbia, etc., and primarily are inspired by people who came from and have nothing but individuality, determination, stubborn resolve, the ability to adapt and learn and extraordinary dedication and just how far those character traits will take you. Really a fabulous look into wonderful people.

Love love love...

[david-569 · 10/10 · 24 July 2020]

Love love love this series. It has a similar rhythm to each program. Sometimes hardship to overcoming. Always tho, a journey with the central characters. That sounds dry. It is not. It is beautiful. In there with the people. And we are along for their ride to being great artists.

Please. More more more. Especially in these times. It is an absolutely exquisite series. It has inspired our home. We are completely drawn to this wonderful presentation. Yes please... more more more.

Not about food only

[craytotem · 10/10 · 26 July 2020]

This is a human drama about street food. It tells you powerfull, hearthwarmig and unique stories about special foods. Editing, filming everthing is on point and it's a great product overall. After Asia and Latin America i hope we can get more.

Makes you wanna start packing

[iflyhigherthanyou · 10/10 · 25 July 2020]

Amazing dive into the lives of different street food chefs around Latin America.

The colours, the stories and the passion makes you want to start looking for a ticket to go try all that amazing food!

Pro tip: don/t watch while hungry! TRUST ME

It is more about the Narrative than the food.

[gaurishkohli · 9/10 · 28 July 2020]

Although this shows presents a variety of foods which are unique to a specific region. The show also presents the viewers a narrative of them overcoming difficulties that these Street food vendors have faced in running that establishment. Each episode in the series has a central character across which the episode will revolve around.

Salvador and Dona Suzana, what a beautiful story!

[the_donnie · 10/10 · 2 October 2020]

I've only sit to see one episode so far, about street food in Salvador, Brazil. The story of Dona Suzana was so heartwarming, and her love for cooking and her community is inspiring. I hope one day to get the chance to meet her and eat her delicious moqueca dish!

Very well made series but seriously misleading...

[AdamJACox · 5/10 · 15 October 2021]

This is an excellent series if you are interested in the stories behind the people who work as 'Street food' vendors. With each episode focusing on one particular individual in detail with a few others given minor viewing time, each individual has a specific dish that is deemed important or different to the culture of the country and a story of hardship that they have overcome.

What this is not is a series about street food, the dishes showcased get very minor viewing and rarely do you see more than a few 'instagramable' shots of the food. Little to no detail is given about the ingredients or how to make the food which is a shame as this could have been a show that allowed people to 'travel and experience' the food of other cultures from their own home but what you get is a cultural experience of another nature.

A more fitting title would be The people of Latin America: Street Food.

Not really about street food

[battuta-952-75880 · 8/10 · 22 July 2020]

I like the show, but much of it isn't about what I would call street food. Most of the featured cooks have small restaurants or fixed stalls in permanent locations.

Just gorgeous - the people behind the food culture

[ericbortolato · 10/10 · 15 January 2022]

Lovely, absolutely lovely! The Salvador episode left me teary-eyed. There's a lot more to food than learning recipes, my friends, and this show does justice to the true human aspects behind this so intrinsically cultural experience that is "merely" eating. It opens the curtains on the stage to reveal real characters so wonderfully worthy of their role as protagonists. There's so much more behind this seemingly mundane activity of eating, am I right? Very well done! And kudos to the editors!

Great

[daan_ajax1996 · 8/10 · 12 September 2021]

I like the personal stories behind the people. And how well the cultural influence is put.

We need more street food

[yfcrv · 9/10 · 26 July 2020]

I really enjoyed the first street foods series but I was amazed when I realized there was not an latin-American (if you want to Mexican-only) street food shows.

I've enjoyed the dishes as much as the backstories in this new series. Hopefully more countries will be visible for upcoming seasons and they will also take a view in some other dishes that were not visible in the first chapters but that still part of our cultures.

Delicious to the heart, mind, and stomach <3

[melissamlaverdure · 9/10 · 13 January 2022]

Inspiring and colourful heartfelt stories of street food cooks that come from a long line of keeping the food going as a means to access the ancestors & access hope & happiness. I love this series, I have spent a few years eating my way around Mexico and take street food over fine dining any day!

Great human show terrible food show

[jaimegiant · 5/10 · 9 September 2020]

I wanted to love this show, I was hoping to see some of the food I remembered from my childhood. Unfortunately for me the country i was looking for wasn't represented. I love food from all different cultures and thought i could learn a few things, unfortunately the food in this show is an afterthought, other than giving us the most basic description of the food we get nothing more than pretty pictures, they however have no problem spending most of the show talking about how the restaurant or food stall made life better for them in a multitude of ways. I also find myself very disappointed in the dishes they cover. In the Peru episode they spend the entire episode in Lima which is hardly representative of the cuisine of an entire culture. Overall I think I'm being generous with 5 stars, for a show about food the don't put much on the plate.

Not really about food

[chloe-79852 · 3/10 · 21 February 2022]

I made it through 20 minutes of the first episode before I realised this show was not going to be about the food at all. I think the chef in that first episode was extremely likeable and I have a lot of respect for her for the hard times she endured. However I decided to watch a show about street food so I was not expecting so much of it to focus on her life story.

Street food Asia was better

[modest-29193 · 4/10 · 17 October 2020]

They ruined the series with far-fetched stories of strong women and lesbians. Too many personal stories. About Asia was more interesting and beautiful.

Worst production

[ferzo-57626 · 1/10 · 6 August 2020]

It's not okay to show the best part of some countries and the worse of others. You can't compare Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital vs Oaxaca, the poorest state in Mexico. Programs like this helps promote international discrimination because they give expectations to people from other places

Meh

[Delby_Welby · 5/10 · 19 August 2020]

Is it me or is there an over-reliance on human angles on absolutely everything nowadays? The food is interesting and some of it looked downright delicious. Makes me want to travel to these places. But honestly, I don't need half the story to be about the chef's life. Sure, let's hit the key points. The Argentinian woman runs her restaurant with her girlfriend. Her father ran a restaurant beforehand that he was planning on selling. I don't need to see scenes of her playing soccer or staring hauntingly at the camera for ten minutes. I don't need to hear stories about how the girlfriend originally wasn't liked by the customers. It's just boring. The food and the ingredients and the culture: That's all fascinating. These shows could be done in 15 minutes.

Not about food.

[djfreundt · 2/10 · 18 October 2020]

I had to turn it off for a food show they kept showing the same food over and over and going into the life stories of one of the stall owners. Not my idea of a good cooking show.

Soap opera

[deepeshb · 2/10 · 3 October 2020]

Too much melodrama. Focus on stories of chef/cooks over the food itself

Disrespectful

[jburke-40710 · 1/10 · 20 September 2020]

After being so excited to see the show, I am incredibly disappointed. The show was apparently made by people who made no effort to actually go to the places shown and find out what food is endemic to the area, what is the truly delicious food there. A complete lack of effort and respect for almost all of the countries.

First off, I consider it especially disrespectful towards Mexico. If you've even visited Oaxaca, you would know that the best food isn't shown, and they show food that most Mexicans don't even know about. How can you show anything about Oaxaca and not truly show mole? The show made Mexico look like a poor, downtrodden country by showing the worst of Oaxaca (an incredibly beautiful city and state, with amazing food and even better people), while showing the best of a country like Argentina by starring Buenos Aires and portraying the people in a better light. I couldn't believe that not only did this show completely fail to show the real food of Oaxaca, but of Mexico as well. They don't even show tamales in Mexico (instead in Colombia), when tamales originated with the Aztecs in Mexico, with tamale being a word in Nahuatl. Street Food showed a complete lack of respect towards Mexico.

In addition to it being disrespectful towards Mexico, I found it disrespectful towards other countries, and especially indigenous cultures. It promoted the non indigenous cultures in a better light, and ignored the richness of the food in countries like Peru. Like others have said, this show helps to spread cultural discrimination, and doesn't show the reality of the countries, the people, or their food.

I would recommend that instead of wasting your time watching this show, you go visit these countries and see what the reality truly is.