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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's. two three worst in fries and have a thirty plays by the sword. will be leaving behind the familia for some 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. 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 and at 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 half a dozen don't turn your on naturally at a thousand dollars a pop. china's young nubile reshma 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. chiou you invent will be here all night serving up is your child at. fifty cents

a stick. i mean that you're going all day with a good deal 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 you know chow is refreshing lee straightforward the lightly salted dough is cut into strips stretched and then addie. and they're going to. chew 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 oh nothing nothing but he's originally from a quiet little village in the neighboring province where he slept more but are and less. good about. now without either but i had

a boring life back home that i would have some nights i slept more than twelve hours yet here i only say that frail four hours a day only i get up at five in the afternoon and that i work through to midday the day after oh my god if you want to earn 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 morning slumber. kites flying on the waterfront seem to be dancing with the fading move. in the park it's time for tight cheap chinese downtempo anti-stress workout.

but then the pace picks up as the city always. starts her working day by meeting about such oh. she's now eighty years old and his business savvy as she was when she started baking bombs thirty years ago. which it stood still all to 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 also counted out. to him. since then other people have copied her legendary bazza she fills the softer with a sumptuous pork and onion filling the recipe however remains a closely guarded secret. but. does late september enough to strangle who did this guy this. little boy of the time not

sweet 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 breakfast for the busy. weather at the counter at ms wong stand. or as a pick me up energy bill later in the office. thing or on the way the primitive to the t.v. on. about so it looks simple enough but for first timers i'm eating them as anything but. still nothing.

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 and ms wong spicy meat filling us in on. well how to cheat yet not bad a. how about 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 to stoke 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 one of the letter came to visit during school holidays so i knew i missed her a lot this is what i have to bury these feelings in my heart so i hope she will one day have a better life than me my look at how demanding. that. mr and mrs wong have earned their modest little share of china's economic boom with their buyouts 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 the city where money wars. 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 right their way around the world exotic imports in the west. but on local staples here in

thailand the fail of all at every street corner. so you do want acne and began her career in cooking at one of these street stores she had little other choice alternative opportunities for getting ahead or nonexistent it was a question of survival. i have not yet heard that one too is one of the biggest slums in mecca 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 love my landlady how much or more. people who have nothing have nothing to lose from toohey has a reputation as a rough neighborhood who guides the few tourists are curious about life in the slums and about the local. food i mean that is where poop comes into.

your fire you only member yami the man but not yet me you know you can't cool with pope or not you can bobby keel so well thought out pick up the red one you can't eat white what you fight now we call us all over that. somehow we have to kill then come to pop it a lot of poppy fought anyone here and van that she wouldn't come to the market. and found papa must go home and they are tell me maybe the athlete i don't know for me also up there 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 site. she caters to tourists eager to try to handle street food from prime time to green curry and tony young 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. ok now we're here 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 that would 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. bit. 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 install. it on. many of the coloring joys that city dwellers relish originally had all from far away in the countryside where life and time run at

a completely different pace and rhythm. where the crickets chattaway peace for now at least. you know. the work is easy i feel 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. work that is enriching in various different ways. jai has everything she needs right outside in her garden.

for future films plus some sawyer flowers for protein and a drizzle of water. dry has no formal training she joins her cell phone 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 there over after just a month the drowning is that is 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. and it hard at last . i live. 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 differ. 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 tynan 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 this sea of sand along the silk road had not only silk spices and shade in tow they also brought with them new recipes new religion and an alternative outlook on life.

the day before the bizarre returns from the field surrounding it away says on the edge of the top 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. cuisine is part of our culture. and we don't want to disappear me. i'm pulling them aside as the team john has

a very diverse culture it's his own moment and we hope it will continue to cross person most and to a long time. they couldn't understand 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 a group of georgia there's. wherever we film in the scene 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 regime where local farmers haggle and barter over cattle as their forefathers did centuries ago back. at the good this is going to. be. 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. 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 is a fusion of meat and fire. his soul concession to the modern world is a fan which isn't working today. and that's close to where the horse down his face was a lot of us are. 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 herbs and the scent of cuban. the bobs are a 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. john style noodles of course. that's called it the look of the citizens as if by magic there they are all with the same identical fitness. needle making machines are redundant here it is above the. rest of it's not something they can learn in a day of them at the knowledge of cost 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 diplomats business. not us which was the day that in a. bomb. could it be that marco polo ate noodles and shame john during his legendary trip to china. that noodles were invented here and nearly. reduced 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 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 weaker. and ironic twist of fate. the

menu centers on fish cooked on sticks in keeping with weaker custom but with fresh herbs peppers and tomatoes over a crackling fire. as night falls the dancers perform their finale around the flames. currently. it's promising to be an evening to remember for me an evening raw invision readers an ethnic conjoining 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 weaker 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 truth and share their daily commute looks precarious navigating the relentless rivers of traffic that dictate life. 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 tune and share know all about with a 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 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 of.

the broth has cooked for at least four hours. two and 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 coach the main city. it's a dream for which tune works well into the night to 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 but 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. and. yes 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 them up a bit and now. 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 cream fresh from the boys from. a to smother ice cooking up his favorite dishes so many mothers to the well the.

like cry when he comes back home tears of joy 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 the 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 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. the wind 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 who's hungry. now. this is her workplace the floating markets of the city of qom told. 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 fruit 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 grow up close by but 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. to live 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. for seven years.

so i was. it's going ok you know. how about you i'm glad it will all go over you play and all. the pretty girls there are good days and bad days you know you've gone off on her. dad. two lives briefly crossed palm sovan lunch on the mekong people going their own separate ways again. but they remain kindred spirits and that's not some moan 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. 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 and 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 go ok. we'll 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 little. raman.

it features one of japan's best known raman bloggers becoming more. but what's his motivation. coming more and 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 proper 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.

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 paste 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'm just. a powerful media aroma it's 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 so hungry that end of the first. things slipping isn't frowned upon when eating ramen. on the contrary. to the local but the difference is i have to slip more to suck in the noodles. i've heard in the public on how i didn't have enough to know him and

the noodles and broth have to hit your mouth. together. slurping really doesn't prove the taste like a quality red wine the noodles and broth have to brief in this case oddly no matter what our etiquette convention say pretty much 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 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. in the can build a lot of sweat and toil goes into preparing ton coats of a japanese pour proff that has a far tang here taste in vietnam. the old into noodles atop the spring onions seaweed and pork. it might look simple but it's an art

and i think you know i kind of think that's your wife jealous of her because you're not from so much that. she likes rahman my child too but she says i talk too much for 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 a scale from japan's new tory asli hard working day. thank 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. tough.

i know that i'm biased but i'm asking. our impression of eastern asia is one of constant ebb and flow of cultural and color mary traditions transition and reinvention. as we saw with liz wong in shanghai who's keen on exporting her savory buns to germany. or giant bangkok with her dreams of a big future with little insights. we've been impressed not only by our colaneri discoveries but equally by the results one is passion and pride among the people who cook them.

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