Put your diet on hold when visiting Southeast Asia. In these parts, locals ask "have you eaten?" in place of "how are you?". Awesome dining options aren't limited to expensive restaurants, but can also be ordered and eaten right off the street.
The world's best street food culture comes from Asia. It's such a great street food culture because we're actually selling heritage food. It's a form of cultural export.
The cities in this list represent the best street food experiences you can put on your itinerary. Our choices reflect high performance in three criteria: authenticity in presentation; low prices, and high reputations for sanitation.
Penang
Malaysia
The street food scene in the Malaysian city of George Town, Penang is rooted in its long history as a magnet for immigrants.
▫ Malaysian Indian culture contributes to the street food scene in the form of nasi kandar, white rice and halal meat drowned in curries; and mee goreng prepared "Mamak" style, combining Chinese-origin fried noodles with Indian spices.
▫ The indigenous Malay culture makes its presence felt via Malaysia's national dish, nasi lemak.
▫ And the Chinese of Penang produce noodle-based street food favorites like char kway teow and Penang laksa.
Bangkok
Thailand
The magic of Thai food filters down even to its humble street food, apparent in the glorious flavor of local cheap eats like pad thai, green curries, and tom yum. Eating street food Bangkok is both literally and figuratively miles distant from the Thai food you're used to eating back home.
You'll also find Thai traditional food that only rarely get exposure outside Asia,
the Isan-style minced meat and sticky rice known as laap
the Chinese-inspired fish porridge called Khao Tom Pla
phat kaphrao
To get your fill of these dishes, you'll need to head to the city's most reputable foodie streets:
▫ Sukhumvit Road;
▫ Yaowarat Road in Chinatown;
▫ the Victory Point street market near the Victory Monument;
▫ Lumphini Park's Ratchadmri Road.
Reports of their demise have been greatly exaggerated.
Hanoi
Vietnam
Hanoi locals, understandably, believe their Northern Vietnamese dishes to be the absolute paragon of Vietnam cuisine – a certain rivalry exists between Hanoians and their counterparts in Saigon, who possess a similar (but not identical) menu of delicacies.
Venture deep into the Old Quarter's narrow streets and experiment with…
Hanoi-style pho noodles;
Cha ca la vong (a turmeric-infused fish dish and the namesake of the Old Quarter's Cha Ca Street);
Bun cha (fish with rice vermicelli noodles).
Singapore
Singapore
Singapore's government herded its formerly ambulatory street food vendors into the hawker centers that now stand on almost every corner in the country. Eat at one of Singapore's top hawker centers, and you're actually eating historic street food: just cleaned up and made more Instagram-friendly.
Singapore's hawker food adapts dishes from every culture that calls Singapore home, reflecting influences from ancient culinary traditions – along with modern twists necessitated by convenience and contemporary tastes.
You'll find original Singaporean inventions like satay bee hoon (rice noodles drowned in peanut sauce)
competing for your patronage with Hainanese chicken rice (a Chinese mainland favorite adopted by Singaporeans).
There are about 120-odd government-run hawker centers alongside at least over 200-plus privately run ones – you'll never be far from a street food experience wherever you may be in Singapore.
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