We were met there by Chawadee Nualkhair, who penned a guidebook on Bangkok street food.
Pop-up street food markets are becoming a regular feature for the bustling lunchtime trade.
First stop is the roiling insanity of Chinatown - much of Bangkok's street food has Chinese roots.
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Or renowned Thip Samai (313 Thanon Mahachai, near the wonderful Phratu Phi street food district), a vision of inferno, open burners showering the pavement with sparks.
We spent hours purposely lost in the labyrinth of ancient coral mansions, while eating cheap street food, chants wafting over from a nearby madrasah.
Known as the Rockaway Beach Club, the collection of stands serves up everything from Venezuelan street food to classic boardwalk fare like ice cream and lobster rolls.
Henry serves up an inventive fusion menu inspired by Central American, Peruvian, Hawaiian, Californian and Asian street food, with four tapas-like dishes that change every week.
While street food remains the unifying passion of the city's residents, an influx of foreign chefs and restaurateurs has hauled Thai food firmly into the 21st century.
Even street food is being gentrified: at Quan An Ngon in Ho Chi Minh city, bejewelled ladies wash down their stuffed pancakes and hot-and-sour soup with sips of chardonnay.
Mexican street food came to the London masses with the opening of the lively and fun canteen-style Wahaca -- now with several branches across the capital including Covent Garden and Soho.
This country-house hotel, near the beautiful city of Bath, holds one-day courses in Indian street food or the food of North or South India, taught by head chef Hrishikesh Desai.
Barbados is a place with a varied and lively food culture, ranging from the local street food to the fine dining establishments that lean toward international cuisine with a local flavor.
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The hotel also offers creative tours to guests, including a chocolate tasting tour of Quito (Ecuador is a top producer of cacao beans) and a culinary excursion sampling street food and visiting local markets.
The bazaar (open from 10 pm to 4 am) is a huge draw for tourists, he added, offering everything from local, handmade batik fabrics to street food to foot massages to five-minute haircuts.
At the latter, a short menu of plump dumplings, noodle dishes and street food is cooked by Beijing-born Ning Ma, whose amateur supper club grew out of her living room before becoming a professional restaurant.
This is the place to go for tasty renditions of street food classics like chicken tacos and marinated pork, as well as shrimp and scallop ceviche and more substantial plates like Mexican-style steak and burritos.
The Maltby Street Market: Ropewalk offers some of the tastiest street food in London, not to mention pop-up stands for London meadery Gosnells, honey-beer brewers Hiver and local craft beer purveyors The Bottle Shop.
Upon returning to Bangkok, move through the city on a search for the best of its ubiquitous street food like drunken noodles and samosa pastries before you stick a fork in your trip.
If street food frightens you, try New World Park, a spic-and-span modern hawker "mall" where you can often find families eating out for the night - always a sign of good hygiene - and food from across Malaysia.
At the risk of painting with a very broad brush, it is safe to say Malays have a thing for food, especially good street food, and as such a great place to see Malays at their most relaxed and happy is Georgetown's many hawker stalls.
Stop for a bite of a Rio street food favourite, tapioca pancake filled with sweet or savoury fillings, at one of the many food carts lining the water, or rest up with a beer and bratwurst at Bar Lagoa, housed in an Art Deco building dating from 1934.
Fourteen years later, Blackbird has become a Chicago institution and Mr. Kahan and Mr. Madia have gone on to build a restaurant group whose critically acclaimed holdings range from a hot spot serving Mexican street food to a sleek, informal restaurant specializing in cooking with oysters, pork and beer.
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The market square outside Mi Tierra is suddenly alive with noise, colour and the aroma of muscular street food: the city is out in force to celebrate its Hispanic chilli queens, whose saucy banter and impromptu singalongs made every night a street party - until the 1930s, when the civic authorities despaired of their ribaldry and laissez-faire approach to food hygiene.
New Orleans has so much: culture, Bourbon Street, food, Mardi Gras Indians--you know, you name it, we have it.
They tuck with aplomb into a street-food supper of kushari (a local snack-food staple of pasta, lentils, tomato sauce and fried onions), bought in steaming ladlefuls from a little stall in the capital's old city.
The final stop, in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), includes chef-led cooking classes and a street-food tour -- and boundless opportunities for trying snacks such as banh mi (sandwiches), pho (spicy noodle soup), goi du du (green papaya salad) and banh xeo (rice pancakes with pork and shrimp).
Two days later, in the capital of Khartoum, we walked the streets, rode a city bus to the confluence of the Blue and White Niles, chatted with dozens of Sudanese, and, after dark, found a street-food stall for a meal of goat, eaten with our fingers as per local custom.
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