🇱🇰 CNN article about Asian street food did not 'rank Sri Lankan snack first'
Comments left by some users indicate they believed CNN had ranked the Sri Lankan snack as number one in Asia.
One comment read:"Wow! Number one in Asia! We don't value our culture and food but look at how it has been recognised by foreigners." Another user wrote:"This is amazing. I have tasted Malaysian and Indonesian food and they taste really good but Sri Lankan achcharu has beat them all to the top."published on August 24, 2022. titled"50 of the best street foods in Asia"."To celebrate the region's bottomless culinary talent and passion for food, we've rounded up 50 must-try, much-loved street foods and beverages in Asia in alphabetical order," it reads.
Sri Lanka's achcharu appears first on the list, followed by asam laksa -- a Malaysian fish-based soup -- and banh mi -- a type of Vietnamese sandwich.The article's author, Kate Springer, told AFP on October 31 that the dishes had not been ranked in order of preference. "I did not rank any of the foods listed in the article -- they are simply in ABC order. We tried to get a broad geographic spread across the region and include diversity amongst the types of foods chosen," Springer said.
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