Street Food Guide Germany 2024: The Best Asian Street Food in Cologne
Authenticity, taste and passion are an excellent combination. The Malaysian national dish in particular - beef stew with lemongrass and coconut paste - is a must-try. It is unique! It is served with egg, roasted peanuts and fragrant rice. Accompanied by a savoury pineapple salad.
This small snack bar with a home-made ambience surprises with great gastronomic skills - from the homemade broth and tofu marinade to the folding technique of the momos, which are filled with organic beef or vegetables before being steamed. Culinary at the top!
Creative Asian tapas in the field of tension between French sophistication and Chinese roots with an individualistic touch. Head chef Zheng-chen Lu trained at the renowned "Le Cordon Bleu" cooking school and cooked under Thomas Bühner, among others - you can taste it.
Chinese comfort food beyond the Peking duck cliché. Owner Xue Bai cooks soups with homemade noodles from Chongqing province - based on her parents' original recipe - and there is also a vegetarian and vegan option. A must: the homemade dumplings in chilli oil.
Functionally furnished snack bar in the Belgian Quarter. Not for a first date, but perfect if you have an appetite for Korean fried chicken, bibimbap or kimchi-jeon - savoury pancakes with fermented cabbage. Beware, the portions are generous!
Hoa Hiep Lam and his wife Cam Nguyen serve finely filled bánh mìs, excellent phở bò and crispy sweet potato fries wrapped in wafer-thin pastry in their small barista café in the Mauritius district. For dessert? A Vietnamese coffee sweetened with condensed milk.
At peak times, you sometimes have to queue outside the Veggie Vietnamese. It's worth it: from the rice paper rolls to the noodle soups and curries, everything is fresh and aromatic - and completely free from animal products. Secret favourite: the banana blossom salad.
Authentic dining like in the Middle Kingdom - for those who dare ... In addition to specialities such as spiced duck tongues, tofu with thousand-year-old eggs or jellyfish salad with cucumber, the menu, a mix of Sichuan, Huaiyang and Hunan cuisine, also offers more familiar dishes.
You don't have to go all the way to Xi'an for handmade Chinese pasta - a trip to Cologne is enough. In addition to specialties such as Liangpi with sesame or Tsula Tsula chili noodles with pork, there is also Rou Jia Mo: the burger-like snack dish has a 2,500-year-old tradition.
The biángbiáng trend has spilled over into Cologne. You can enjoy the handmade noodles from Shaanxi province in northwest China at two locations - with meat, prawns or tofu and shiitake. They are served with gyoza, karaage and cucumber salad.