If you’re walking around and you stumble across a busy street vendor serving up deep-fried goodness, you have to stop and try it. That’s the law. Don’t look it up, just take my word for it.
Add this to the always-growing list of line-based discoveries. The line-up at Yanagiya Taiyaki is pretty intense, even by Tokyo’s line-loving standards.
There’s a bunch of places in Hong Kong that sell skewers of random animal bits; these things make for a pretty great snack.
There’s a popular street food stall near my hotel that was cooking up some kind of omelette-esque dish as I was walking by. It looked tasty enough, so I stopped, pointed, and I was off to the races.
Though it looks like a banh mi, Cambodia’s num pang is actually its own delicious thing.
Trying to find a good place to eat in Siem Reap is weird. Normally, if you google something like “must eat in [insert city here],” you’ll find any number of articles pointing you toward delicious-looking local food.
The coconut pudding pancakes (or kanom krok) I just had are odd — tasty, but odd.
If you only eat one dish at the market across from the North Gate… it’s gotta be the pork from the Cowboy Hat Lady. But if you eat two, that’s where Changphuak Suki comes in.
There’s a whole bevy of street vendors that pop up in the evening on a stretch of road across from the North Gate in Chiang Mai. There’s a lot of tasty food to be had here, but the most popular stall (by far) is Chang Phueak Pork Leg Rice.
The lumpia from Harga Lumpia Samijaya is basically the best spring roll I’ve ever had.