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every journey has its starting point ours is invert led. our journey will take us around the world exploring foreign cultures and cuisines. we have a dinner date. with the world. to three worse than frogs and i think there any place that history. will be leaving behind the familiar for some eye opening adventurous first 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 our inhibitions. will taste life on the street it's food for thought for the wider world.

what. do you norman i'm on the first stop shanghai. nice plant thomas straight to china's boom town in 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 at 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 stall. she you invent will be here all night serving up is your child. at fifty cents

a stick. i mean that you know all that 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. something to eat it. like any other hit snack you know chow is refreshing lee straightforward the lightly salted dough is cut into strips stretched and then plunged into sizzling oil it's fried until golden brown. your show is classic comfort food something in big demand amid the hustle and bustle of life in the metropolis you can. live. a happy. hot and fatty. and they're going to. choose street food is one of the few places where all

sections of society meet the rich and the poor not the healthy and the six zero zero zero two my cousin who put it he's originally from a quiet little village in the neighboring province where he slept more but aren't less. good about what i want 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 work through to midday the day after oh my god if you want to not money you have to sleep leslie and. i have this is. a new day dawns in shanghai. the city is deceptively quiet in its early morning slumber. kites flying on the waterfront seem to be dancing with the fading moon.

in the park it's time for touching china's down temple anti-stress workout. but then the pace picks up as the city always. starts are working day by milling about said oh. 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 out sometimes which so i want to round to see how other people made them i copied everything i know from them to look closely how they help me. to. since then other people have

copied her legendary bazza she feels the soft o. with the sumptuous pork in onion filling the recipe however remains a closely guarded secret. but. as late sept. this guy has. to worry about time not sweets but what if i don't need a 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 in shanghai is complete without the crispy brown savory bottoms it's just for the busy. weather at the counter at ms wong stand him. or as

a pick me up energy producer later in the office. think i'll wait up for me to get something on. about so it looks simple enough but for first timers eating them is anything but. coming 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 meat filling up some on. the how to cheat yeah not bad day. to go on how that you work for me and sell them in your country. who needs ravioli when you have doubts. 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. 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. promise find out that i came to visit during school holidays so i knew i miss her a lot this is what i have to bury these feelings in my heart i hope she will one day have a better life than me my look at her demanding attention what. mr

churchill and ms wong 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 of the city where money will. 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 meet.

of bangkok without street food is unimaginable. manner of dishes served up at the little street stands right their way around the world to exotic imports in the west. but on local staples here in thailand available at every street corner. so you do want like named began her career in cooking at one of the street stores she had little other choice alternative opportunities for getting ahead a nonexistent it was a question of survival. i have not yet heard that one too is one of the biggest slums in bangkok there are practically no jobs here but plenty of problems from drugs and crime yet almost no one has any qualifications. and even those who do

find a job don't earn enough money i love my nerd buddy how my. 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 into. court for you only member yami liban but not that meat you know you can't cope with pop or not your canned barbecue so hot out pick up the red what you can eat why wasn't it now we call salt oh i bet.

somehow we feel then come to pop in a lot of hot be fought anyone here and van that you don't have to the market. cry and found part of the hall and they are tell me make the athlete i don't know for me also been 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 our own cooking workshop here which has become a hugely profitable enterprise excite. she caters to tourists eager to try to handle street food from time to green curry and tony young all now popular dishes tiny restaurants around the world here still or 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. ok now. that 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 there will be a big shock i cried when i heard the news last i love that. who feels thankful but she knows it was hard work that got her that. good. bangkok is a phenomenon dying all night a sprawling mega city where there are always new temptations to indulge in twenty four seventh's including cullen everyone's. it's a fascinating paradise for food lovers although for outsiders sometimes

a challenge with your prickly proposition and storm. many of the colander rejoice 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 chirp away in peace but now at least. you know. the work is easy i fail enjoy farming insects is something you either love or find boring but i like raising them and listen to them it really isn't difficult or hard work i can bring them here at home which is convenient. and.

work that is enriching in various different ways. jai has everything she needs right outside in her garden. for future first class i'm sawyer flower for protein and a drizzle of water. joy has no formal training she's also a self 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. it's harvest time around 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 arms growing in jais garden. and finally of course comes the real moment of truth food's up. that ladder. i live. on. as i burst the shell i'm waiting in vain for a burst of flavor crickets have little if any flavor of the main but evidently tastes. business is good for joy not least since western diners also developed a taste for insects. trisha's food from

organic production giant joys the backing of dietary and. spots not to mention her many regular customers at her 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 talent shows how passion is a vital element of street food and in some places more recently an innovation to. 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 the sea of sand along the silk road had not only silk spices and shade and so they also brought with them new recipes new religions and an alternative outlook on life. the day before the bazaar all the mood returns from the field surrounding in a way says on the edge of the comic-con. the thirty year old farmer and his family belong to the weaker people a muslim minority in china's wild west. speaks minimal mandarin the readers have their own language and identity and their

own food. in the. cuisine is part of our culture. and we don't want to disappear me. both sides the team john has a very diverse culture it's examining the we hope it will continue to cross currents and to evolve. make it an 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 leaders 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 georgia. wherever we film in the shin john 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 stigmatisation. 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 lazing where local farmers haggle and barter over cattle as their forefathers did centuries ago back. at the good this is. going to be getting 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.

means liver in fact. that a 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 the 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. but. some little square horse down his face that's a lot of us a little. bit there. but all is 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 her and the scent of cuba. the kababs are hearty unpretentious affair not unlike the people. next door we witness a fascinating feat of parliamentary choreography. what will all that tossing twisting and turning result in. a change on style noodles of course. that one day you look at most of us who has it by magic there they are all with the same identical fitness. needle making machines are redundant here but within the above the. rest of it's not something they can learn in a day. at the knowledge is passed on from generation to generation of them with one . little book but it's about that we go coax unknown full of the much of the

diplomas but the. nub of this list was it doesn't really fit in a. knot. could it be that marco polo ate noodles and sheen john during his legendary trip to china. that noodles were invented here and merely in. produced to 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 shin john noodles are a warming no frills delight. eaten here of course not with a fork and spoon but with chopsticks as locals looked on amused.

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. it it seems as if our escorts are proud of local change on culture. and except for this peculiar site 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 weaker. and ironic twist of fate. the menu centers on fish cooked on sticks in keeping with weaker custom with fresh herbs peppers and tomatoes over a crackling fire and fifty. as night falls the dancers perform their finale around the flames. it's promising to be an evening to remember for me an evening where i envision

weaker as an ethnic conch anyone sitting together around a fire eating fish. can hopes of reconciliation be candled here in china's troubled northwestern province. just moments after the dance is over however the fish is packed up and taken away. the who eager dancers disappear into the night. the only eating done by ourselves in 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 you know eating brings people together. fortune and him their daily commute looks but carious navigating the relentless rivers of traffic that dictate life coach the man 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 terror in the city. and indeed the entire country yet naam is a nation in transition economically and socially a nation permanently on the move from life on the go life to go. to something tune 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 to choose a noodle soup a simple sounding name belies the veritable taste sensation of waiting in every

bowl. and. 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 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 there my. just a 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 city. from. 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 fact. parents are over the moon to see them they've only seen their little granddaughter tram once before. and. am. now we're poor people but my son is now a self-made business and i'm very proud of him. hold up a lot after that and now. all. their long wait is always worth it on this special day the women take care of the cooking. sizzling away in the pan

are some mice fresh from the rice fields. tunes mother rice cooking up his favorite dishes are so many mothers to the world over. i cry when he comes back home tears of joy when i miss them all so much. our son had to leave home because he can't earn any money here. well. 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 tran t. buy begins how working day. in the back 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 wow and 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. praying and working by also believes life is what you make it she calls out rice with pork rice noodles with crab whose hungry.

this is how. the floating markets of the city of qom toll. by this points the mekong river is almost five thousand kilometers from its source taking in and telling 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 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 the main city always gets nostalgic here we grow up close by and often accompany his mother to the market taking in the sights and smells takes him back to his childhood the food here is still the best he says.

two lives made on those floating cross roads to from the big city. from the big river to very different people find they have much in common if. i'm originally from here but now i live in a hotel in city i have a stand there i've been selling the same dishes as you. so i was. business. it's going ok you know. how about you. i'm glad that we'll go over to play along. pretty good there are good days and bad days you know you can comment on. the last. two lines briefly crossed palm seven lunch on the mekong people going their own separate ways again. but they remain kindred spirits and that's not some old vietnamese saying it happens across the world.

hi thomas has no taste like home. 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 belts touring streets that stands in eastern asia we've now arranged to meet back up at a kiosk in japan. near where are you last is with woke up. will be right there 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 noodles. raman. it features one of japan's best known raman bloggers toshiyuki kamimura. but what's his motivation. coming more or tells us that can be best answered over a bowl of noodle soup. he suggests meeting at a sheen to temple and appropriately enough it's thanksgiving in japan. outside the temple you can buy proper been 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. kamimura sohn 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 paste claiming kababs and sweet treats do not seem to appeal to him. we're dining at a young thai one of fukuoka is rustic fast food stands. i deserve. a powerful media aroma hits me as the bowls of broth are brought to the table as if there were a huge steaming pork roast in front of us i. get

a hundred and you're the first to go. and slipping isn't frowned upon when eating ramen. on the contrary. you're the local but the difference is i have to slip more to suck in the noodles. i've heard in public on how i didn't have enough to get you know human the noodles and broth have to hit your mouth. together. slurping really does improve the taste like a quality red wine the noodles and broth have to brief in this case audibly no matter what our etiquette conventions say when you are from germany you just learn not to somebody for you. yes the noodles taste better if you slow you have to it's part of our culture would have been. lovely. and don't forget to wash them down with a gulp of broth which has

a creamy consistency reminiscent of liquid meat or want to build a lot of sweat and toil goes into preparing tahn coats of a japanese pork prof that has a far tang here taste in vietnam. the old empty noodles atop the spring onions seaweed and pork. i did might look simple but it's an art and i thank you i don't have anything that you want to tell us a promise because you're not from so much that. she likes raman my child too but she says i eat too much by the third round and still 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 escape from japan's new tory asli hard working day. music 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. tough. i know that i'm glad i'm glad. our impression of eastern asia is one of constant ebb and flow of cultural and color narry traditions transition and reinvention. as we saw with ms wong in shanghai who's keen on exporting her savory bonds to germany. or giant bangkok with her dreams of a big future with little insects. we've been in fresno not only by our coal and our discoveries but equally by the results one is passion and pride among the people

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