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Goulash is still the best Hungarian food, and zserbó is the fifth-best dessert in the world, turns out from the latest TasteAtlas ranking The Best Food in the World, reports 24.

TasteAtlas is “a project dedicated to cataloguing, preserving, and promoting local ingredients, traditional recipes, and authentic restaurants”. They have a great interactive website that provides an extensive collection of the best meals of the world’s countries.

Based on over 63,000 votes, TasteAtlas has recently published this year’s ranking of ‘The Best Traditional Foods in the World’. According to the results, the world’s best food is Pizza Margherita from Naples, followed by Adana Kebap from Turkey, and the Japanese Ramen.

In the overall ranking, Hungarian goulash finished in the 39th place, which also makes it the best food of the Hungarian cuisine.

With this position, goulash received a rating similar to Vietnamese Pho, Mexican Enchiladas, and Japanese sushi.

Another Hungarian item on the top100 list is chicken paprikash, which finished in the 88th place. TasteAtlas also lists the go-to restaurants for the meals in the database: in the case of goulash, this is Kiado Kocsma, while chicken paprikash is best had at Pest-Buda Bistro in Budapest.

As for the best cuisines in the world, the gold, silver, and bronze medals go to Italy, Greece, and Spain, respectively. The first non-European cuisine on the list is Iranian, which we find in the 5th place.