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every journey has its starting point ours is in berlin. our journey will take us around the world exploring foreign cultures and cuisines. we have a dinner date. with the world. too far worse than frogs and i think there any place that the search. will be leaving behind the familiar for some eye opening adventurous fast to the far east. will also be learning about the people we meet as we eat what they eat. will be sampling savoring and slumping as we encounter surprises overcome

inhibitions. it. will taste life on the street it's food for thought for the wider world. do you norman i'm on the first stop shanghai. nice plant thomas straight to china's boom town into the deep end keep me updated. it's saturday night and in the priciest club in the city the local jets that celebrate themselves and their lives of luxury and excess.

anyone who's anyone order champagne and not just the one bottle or two but happen doesn't don't turn your on naturally and a thousand dollars a pop. china's young nubile reached party hard most of them courtesy of their parents' money. later that night a jaguar pulls up on a street corner in the same town but a world away from exclusive nightclubs. wealthy young night owls may not be used to waiting in line but they're happy to do it here at this no frills. fast food stocks

. shoot you in bed and we'll be here all night serving up his yo child at fifty cents a stick. i mean that you're not. a good child shouldn't taste oily it needs to be soft on the inside and crispy on the outside when you bite into it yet it has something to eat . like any other head snack your child is refreshing least straightforward to lightly salted zero is cut into strips stretched and then plunged into sizzling oil it's fried until golden brown. your child is classic comfort food something in big demand amid the hustle and bustle of life in the metropolis. having. a happy. hot and fatty.

begin. to street food is one of the few places where all sections of society meet the rich and the poor not the healthy and the sick oh oh my god got to tell you he's originally from a quiet little village in the neighboring province where he slept in more but r. and less. well. i don't i don't either but i had a boring life back home and it would have some nights i slept more than twelve hours you should never hear i only say that three or four hours a day only i get up at five in the afternoon and i'm booked through to midday the day after oh my god if you want to know money you have to sleep last night and that is what i have this is. a new day dawns in shanghai. the city is deceptively quiet in its early mornings.

slumber. kites flying on the waterfront seem to be dancing with the fading mood. in the park it's time for touching china's downtempo anti-stress workout. but then the pace picks up as the city always. start to working day by meeting about seto. she's now eighty years old and his business savvy as she was when she started baking buns thirty years ago. what it stood still holds a local event so the back then i didn't know how to fill in forms. so i went to

round to see how other people made them i copied everything i know from them the book was a palette. to us but. since then other people have copied her legendary bazza she feels the soft go with the sumptuous pork in onion filling the recipe however remains a closely guarded secret. but. does. the fear strangle who did this guy has. to worry about time not sweets but what if i don't need to scale i can feel the weight of the ingredients with my fingers and all i need to work out the proportions for a meat filling is my heart. no start to the day and shanghai is complete without the crispy brown savory bottoms it's breakfast for the busy.

whether at the counter at ms wong stand. or as a pick me up energy producer later in the office. they are on the way the minute you tell them nothing on. about so looks simple enough but for first timers eating them is anything but. come. up. once you get the hang of it however the shanghai specialty is a hugely satisfying meal in a mouthful a crispy exterior with a hot and juicy broth the ms wong spicy me filling us in on. well how to cheat yeah not bad hey. she got on how about you work for me and sell them in your country. who needs ravioli when you have doubts of.

ms wong is never short of new business ideas and she still finds the strength to start afresh she's had to relocate three times over the years after the building housing her stall was demolished. with the old sleepy side of the city is being eclipsed by the new shanghai looming above with its astronomical real estate costs. that evening after a brief sleep to defies exhaustion and fires up his stove again. he always has his daughter in mind he says she's attending a private school in britain he invests every penny he earns in her future. crime is by now that i came to visit during school holidays sound you know i miss her a lot this is what i have to bury these feelings in my heart. i hope to one day have

a better life than me. milo has had a mandate that has you. mr true and ms one have earned their modest little share of china's economic boom with their bouts and your child and a lot of hard work they've climbed up a rock on the social ladder hoping that their children and grandchildren will rise even higher. the problem is norman that shanghai street food vendors are being squeezed out in a city where money warps. it's a different story in thailand here business on the street is buzzing. welcome to bangkok a city that resembles one big vibrant and thriving market that offers everything

you might possibly nate. but bangkok without street food is unimaginable. manner of dishes served up at the little street stands made their way around the world exotic imports in the west. but on local staples here in thailand available at every street corner. so you do warm acne and began her career in cooking at one of these street stores she had little other choice alternative opportunities for getting ahead a nonexistent it was a question of survival. but how can i get that one two years. one of the biggest

slums in bangkok and how there are practically no jobs here but plenty of problems from drugs and crime almost no one has any qualifications and even those who do find a job don't earn enough money i don't know how to how much more. people who have nothing have nothing to lose from toohey has a reputation as a rough neighborhood who guides the few tourists who are curious about life in the slums and about the local food that is where poop comes and. goes for union member yami the man but not yet me you know you can we cope or not you can barbecue so well come out pick up the red what you can eat why what now we call salt all that.

somehow we have killed and come to pop in a lot coffee pot anyone here and van that you don't have to the market. cry and found possible. and they are tell me the athlete i don't know for me also a kid. who is a veteran of the street food scene even if she no longer operates on the street itself she still income to it but now runs her own cooking workshop here which has become a hugely profitable enterprise site. she caters to tourists eager to try to handle street food from time to green curry antonio all now popular dishes tiny restaurants around the world here it's the first stop being an insider tip years

ago after jamie oliver. featured her on his cooking show. success story is unprecedented here. for pearl and that doesn't stop she now employs it's been a route out of poverty even if not a ticket out of the slum. now back up and i wouldn't leave here even if i could this is where i belong the government is reportedly planning to tear down the slum and build new high rises in its place and that would be a big shock i cried when i heard the news well i love that. two films thankful but she knows it was hard work the god damn. good. bangkok is a phenomenon day all night a sprawling mega-city where there are always new temptations to indulge in twenty four seven including cullen everyone's.

it's a fascinating paradise for food lovers although for outsiders sometimes a challenge would be all prickly proposition and storm. many of the coloring joys that city dwellers relish originally hail from far away in the countryside where life in time run at a completely different pace and rhythm. where the crickets chattaway peace for now at least. two or. the work is easy if you enjoy farming insects is something you either love or find

boring but i like my. and listen to them it really isn't difficult or hard work i can breed them here at home which is convenient. work that is enriching in various different ways jai has everything she needs right outside in her garden. for future fish plus some soil flowers or protein and a drizzle of water. joy has no formal training she told herself after her daughter developed a taste for crickets because of the rising cost of groceries and with achieving gradient an endless supply of business was born. harvest time year round it might sound on to some outsiders but that's the term

they use here harvesting insects. this part of the process may not be too appetizing for the on enlightened insects lives are over after just a month the drowning is as essential an ingredient as the fresh leaves in her growing enjoys garden. and finally of course comes the real moment of truth food stop. and it part that last hour i learned. as i burst the shell long waiting in vain for a burst of flavor crickets have little if any flavor to make but evidently tastes differ. business is good for joy not least since western

diners also developed a taste for insects. am nutritious food from organic production giant joyce the backing of dietary experts not to mention her many regular customers at a roadside stand. and she also has time to take a deserved rest for her efforts it seems she simply has the perfect recipe for success. by thomas style and shows how passion is a vital element of street food and in some places more recently an innovation to go . it's the other way around. here street food is still very traditional. our journey to the baking

heat of the to comic-con desert in northwest china feels like a trip back in time. in centuries past the caravans traversing this sea of sand along the silk road had not only silk spices and shade in so they also brought with them new recipes new religions and an alternative outlook on life. the day before the bazaar ali who returns from the field surrounding it away says on the edge of the comic con. the thirty year old farmer and his family belong to the leader of people a muslim minority in china's wild west.

speaks minimal mandarin the readers have their own language and identity and their own food. and. cuisine is part of our culture. and we don't want to disappear. assayas the team john has a very diverse culture it's an xian moment and we hope it will continue to prosper from us and to evolve. thanks to honest life. but it doesn't take long for the police to show up the chinese government looks unfavorably on the culture and traditions of the readers in the eyes of the authorities in beijing they constitute a threat to security and national unity. the police check our credentials with

christmas of thoughts now. wherever we film in the shins young region we find ourselves accompanied by government minders. and what we film reflects both sides of life here a magical throwback to the days of the silk road and in the present suspicion and stigmatization. the next day is a bizarre day this too is part of china albeit a part that feels closer to tear on or damascus than regime where local farmers haggle and barter over cattle as their forefathers did centuries ago back. at the good this is. going to do. a little bit back. alley mo has his own stand.

once a week he goes through the same solemn ritual cutting up the lamb into pieces small enough to fit on skewers. me liver in fact. the to comic-con recipe for the harsh conditions on the edge of the desert. unlike what people in europe might be used to there's. no everything on it option with a weaker. as exemplified by alamos kababs it's a fusion of meat and fire. his soul concession to the modern world is a fan which isn't working today. let's look at square floors down his face at the top of a little. like this. but almost forgotten as the spicy aroma of

grilled lamb and one piece of bread permeates the senses. just as in times past we pull the chunks of meat off the skewers it's a smoky taste one of herbs and the scent of cuba. the kababs are a hearty unpretentious affair not unlike the people. next door we witness a fascinating feat of color mary choreography. what will all that tossing twisting and turning result in. a change on style noodles of course. but that's about it we look at most of this if as if by magic there they are all with the same identical fitness. needle making machines are redundant here they're the above the. rest of it's not something they can learn in

a day. the knowledge is passed on from generation to generation of the middle. of the book no it's not that we go coax on full of the middle of the diplomas but let's. not put as much with the doesn't like that in a. bomb. could it be that marco polo ate noodles and sheen john during his legendary trip to china. that noodles were invented here and merely. produced in europe by the italian explorer. then there's this blend of lamb onions tomatoes and peppers. perhaps a precursor to italy's bowl in a sauce. served by the maestro himself freshly prepared steaming change on noodles or

a warming no frills delight. eaten here of course not with a fork and spoon but with chopsticks as locals looked on amused. and. i think. we now leave the bazaar there something else our government minders want to show us. something foreign visitors rarely see. a special performance just for us a wedding dance with traditional instruments and colorful costumes a spirited performance and good fun it seems as if our escorts are proud of local change on culture. and except for this peculiar sight one of the men is wearing a false beard for the regime in beijing long beards are seen as

a symbol of radical islam and only permitted among elderly men. it means a weaker musician has to dress up as a meager. and ironic twist of fate would. let. the menu centers on fish cooked on sticks in keeping with weaker custom with fresh herbs peppers and tomatoes over a crackling fire. thise night falls the dancers perform the finale around the flames. the little. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh oh.

oh oh it's promising to be an evening to remember for me and evening right envision readers an ethnic conch i mean was sitting together around a fire eating fish. can hopes of reconciliation be kendall here in china's troubled northwestern province. just moments after the dance is over however the fish is packed up and taken away. the dancers disappear into the night . the only eating done by ourselves and our minders will be later in an ethnic chinese restaurant. near norman they don't eat together and change jobs and that's precisely the problem. that's a shame thomas but i'm experiencing the opposite in vietnam here eating brings people together. for two and sharing their daily commute looks

precarious navigating the relentless rivers of traffic that dictate life in city formerly known as saigon life here is never dormant everyone appears to be on their way to somewhere else. well almost everyone. life is distinctly upbeat here in the city and indeed the entire country vietnam is a nation in transition economically and socially a nation permanently on the move life on the go life to go. to something june and share know all about with the grocery shopping done for the day they head back home to prepare everything they meet for their prized product

who choose a noodle soup a simple sounding name belies the veritable taste sensation waiting in every bottle . and bring fresh vegetables plus rice noodles. boil pork belly. and then of course herbs and spices. chopped up extremely fine and mixed together. all. the broth has cooked for at least four hours. tune could probably do it blindfolded same routine seven days a week a bowl of soup costs twenty thousand dong the equivalent of eighty euro cents on a good day they serve up to one hundred portions but not every day is

a good one. for now at least the story of tuna and chen is one of just getting by a story that began where else but in a restaurant. when i first arrived here i got a job as an assistant cook that's where i met my future wife was a waitress. after we got married we left the restaurant we wanted to set up our own business. and that plan has come to fruition in their modest little street side kitchen. tune and then believe that life is what you make it what they really dream of is having their own fully fledged restaurant one day in a city. it's a dream for which tune works well into the night vacation is more or less a foreign concept for him and his wife as it is for many vietnamese families even taking a day off is

a special treat. and on this day they're paying a visit to tunes parents they don't live far away parts of the boss needs four hours at least traffic committing it's a time consuming and expensive journey into four euros per person a luxury they can afford only once a year if that. today's parents are over the moon to see them they've only seen their little granddaughter tram once before. yet we're poor people but my son is now a self-made business and i'm very proud of him but if that. holds up a lot them up and down. their long wait is always worth it

on this special day the women take care of the cooking. sizzling away in the pan awesome ice cold fresh from the biosphere. tunes mother is cooking up his favorite dishes a so many mothers to the world over . i cry when he comes back home tears of joy when well i miss them all so much. our son had to leave home because he can't earn any money here.

tonight his family enjoy the rare pleasure of a day off and a chance to replenish their batteries for a few hours. for others it will be another all too short night by the big river. it's still dark when tron t. by begins one. king day. i never have a day off people depend on me if i don't show up they have nothing to eat. for years she's followed the same daily routine as her mother before her. at dawn she transports everything she needs across the street to her boat.

her. every item has its place. every morning by meticulously loads up the pint sized vessel before setting out across the big river. how can we. work now god will reward us some day if we do good deeds he will bless us. i pray every day that he will give us money for a new home. and good luck go out crying and working by also believes life is what you make it she calls out rice with pork rice noodles with crab whose hungry. man. was.

playing. bass is her workplace the floating markets of the city of qom tall. by this points the mekong river is almost five thousand kilometers from its source taking in and telling marianne stories along the way. the mekong delta is a hive of trade. after being harvested from nearby fields the fruits and vegetables are transferred from the big ships to tiny boats before reaching the stands on land the commercial food chain that works the same way it has for centuries. to the street vendor from coachmen city always gets nostalgic here we grow up close by and often accompany his mother to the markets taking in the sights and smells majorly takes him back to his childhood the food here is still the best he says.

two lives made on those floating crossroads tune from the big city trying to live from the big river to very different people find they have much in common. and i'm originally from here but now i live in a hotel in city i have a stand there where i've been selling the same number of dishes as you. for seven years now. so how's business and how it's going ok you know. how about you. let you know you play a lot. pretty good there are good days and bad days you know you can count on others. to lives briefly crossed paths over lunch on the mekong before going their own separate ways or guests.

but they remain kindred spirits and that's not some old vietnamese saying it happens across the world. hi thomas has no taste like how. long. sounds like japan to i'll be seeing you there shortly. fukuoka is said to be the most livable city in japan. initially i feel a little underwhelmed. but then again we have yet to go out for dinner. after the ten thousand kilometers we each have under our belt storing street food stands in eastern asia we've now arranged to meet back up at a kiosk in japan. i'm here where are you last to fall cup. we'll be right there and yes i got lost by the gaming arcades.

we finally find each other in a convenience store. among the shelves of magazines on sale is one dedicated to one thing the japanese variety of little city rob and. it features one of japan's best known rahman bloggers toshiyuki kamimura. but what's his motivation. coming more tells us that can be best answered over a bowl of noodle soup. he suggests meeting at a sheen to a temple and appropriately enough it's thanksgiving in japan. outside the temple

you can buy proverbs predicting your future. after reading what fate has in store for them or others the fortunes are tied to a fence. it looks like some may not have been happy with their fortunes and the cleaning team is kept busy tidying up. for the. kamimura son is in his thirty's and remarkably slim for someone who eats four hundred portions of ramen a year. the other tasty morsel bailable rice cakes filled with being phased flaming kababs and sweet treats do not seem to appeal to have. we're dining at a yacht thai one of fukuoka is rustic fast food stands. i think serves.

a powerful media aroma hits me as the bones of broth are brought to the table as if there were a huge steaming pork roast in front of us i. guess a hundred of you the first to go. slurping isn't frowned upon when eating ramen. on the contrary. to the local but the difference is you have to slip more to suck in the noodles. not hurting the public on how i didn't have enough through your email that the noodles and broth have to hit your mouth together but that's ok. slurping really doesn't prove the taste like a quality red wine the noodles and broth have to breathe in this case audibly no matter what our etiquette conventions say i mean if i'm in germany it's a learn not just look at the sound i think you. can. get. that

yes the noodles taste better if you slow you have to it's part of our culture that have been going. on. and don't forget to wash them down with a gulp of broth which has a creamy consistency reminiscent of liquid meat pulling it out in the middle a lot of sweat and toil goes into preparing tang coats of the japanese pork process that has a far tang your taste in vietnam. the old into noodles atop the spy. seaweed and pork. it might look simple but it's an art i think i need to see a bunch of chosen from because you're nothing from so much that. she likes roman my child too but she says i talk too much for the third roman stole they just wait outside. the remnants of a typhoon sweep across the city but that doesn't dampen anyone's appetite in fukuoka. their love of robin soup is stronger than the whims of whether.

the waterfront is jam packed with fast food stalls. with the rain pouring down incessantly there are kin to little refuges islands of a scale from japan's new tory asli hard working day. i. miss you i was twenty five when i started out here before that i spent four years in office. i was sick of the pressure and overtime every day i made the. point i'm sorry but i'm past. our impression of eastern asia is one of constant to ebb and flow of cultural and cullen every traditions transition and reinvention. as we saw with ms wong in shanghai who's keen on exporting her savory buns to germany. or giant bangkok with

dreams of a big future with little insects. we've been impressed not only by our cold and airy discoveries but equally by the results one is passion and pride among the people who cook them. stay up to date don't miss our highlights d.w. program on line d.w. dot com highlights.

so. i just couldn't get this song out of his head. the musicologist began searching for the source of these captivating sounds. and found them deep in the rain forest in central africa. the by a couple. that i am. i am with the books and the like to bullock was a big lesson in why anyone fitted. my illegal guns he was so fascinated by their culture that he stayed. only a promise to a son was made son only in the jungle and returned to the concrete and glass trunk . the result reverse culture shock. ready for a comeback you realize how strange artificial is really connected to life.

the prize winning documentary song from the forest starts aug ninth on d w. this is. france have booked their place in the world cup final thanks. to a first final in twelve years also coming up mission accomplished those twelve boys and their coach who were.