The Street Food Survival Guide
Street food is one of the great joys of any trip to Asia – but brings with it an associated risk of Delhi belly, the sort of thing that can take days out of any holiday. And, no matter how long you spent looking for …
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Three South-East Asian Street Food Destinations
One of the great joys of travel in South-East Asia is street food, whether from mobile street carts, kindergarten tables on the pavement, open air barbecues, or hawker courts and malls. Here’s a couple of dishes not to miss from three iconic South-East Asian street …
Food for a Quid: Chinese Toffee Apples
Chinese toffee apples, in all their myriad persuasions, are one of my favourite Chinese street sweeties, and add colour to any hutong as they sit threaded on their long, slender sticks. Whether sold from a bicycle, a cart or a street stall, they’re pretty much …
Food for a Quid: Turkish Stuffed Mussels (Midye Dolma)
In Orhan Pamuk’s wonderful Istanbul: a Memoir, he records that stuffed mussel vendors, plying their wares along the streets, have been part of Istanbul since early Ottoman times. And Turkish stuffed mussels, known as midye dolma, are one of the world’s great street foods. Seriously, …