80,000 people worldwide are using an app that lets them eat at a stranger's house

While Airbnb may be the most well-known "social sharing" platform, encouraging travellers to book rooms in stranger's homes or entire properties owned by local hosts instead of hotels, global app VizEat is determined to do the same for dining.

Calling itself the "Airbnb of food," the platform, which was founded in July 2014 and now exists in 110 countries, enables its 80,000 users to "eat like a local" by booking meals, cooking classes, or food tours hosted by 20,000 approved VizEat hosts all over the world.

While it has competitors in Feastly, which so far only exists in the US, and EatWith, a nearly identical app and website that so far exists in 50 countries, VizEat appears to be getting the most international attention.

In September, the startup raised €3.8 million (£3.4 million) in a funding round as part of its effort to bring the service to even more countries, including the UK and Germany.

In order to try out an authentic food experience firsthand, I headed to London Fields where VizEat host Fenny cooked an Indonesian meal for myself and a few members of the VizEat team inside her flat.

I documented my experience below.