There's something especially comforting about street food.

In Jamaica, you might see vendors selling jerk chicken, or in New York, you might see vendors

selling kebabs or roasted peanuts.

Fancy restaurants are cool and all, but it's nice being able to pull up to a cart on a corner

and get a nice treat.

And still, there's a whole category of street food that most of us have

never gotten to experience, a hyper-local type that you usually can't get unless you're in a certain

place, like Barbadian crispy fried pig ears, thinly sliced, tossed in jerk spice, and eaten with a sweet

and sour sauce. Or Egyptian-style brussels sprouts, which are fried and topped with pumpkin seed and pomegranate molasses.

These are street foods that aren't easily accessible to most folks, but there's a little

restaurant in Seattle that's bringing them all together, a place called New.

At New, they don't just put together the greatest hits of foods from different places.

They focus on street

foods. And with owners that love to travel and get inspiration, their menu spans the globe.

Customers are even invited to join in on the menu creation process. So what we wanted to do was

that we want to bring food that people think about when they think of home, but it's just not available here in Seattle.

That's Uyin. She's one of the co-owners of New.

She says her restaurant's focus is on authenticity rather than trying to impress guests with fancy presentations or pricey menu options.

And frankly, we can get food at a fancy restaurant in pretty much anywhere else nowadays because

of globalization.

But the street food is where, you know, you actually really get that insider view of

thing and the local experience.

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