Street food is a many splendoured thing.

It’s delicious, cheap, readily available, and available in most parts of the world.

Today we start a three-part series, featuring street food we have eaten all over the world.

Our first stop – Asia, one area where you can get some of the best street food in the world.

Bangkok -Thailand

Pad Thai: Amazing it is – stir-fried noodles, so simple but so super delicious. This dish a sum of all its ingredients: Stir-fried noodles, seafood (or chicken or pork), egg, sauces and vegetables such as bean sprouts and shallots, served with a sprinkle of fresh herbs, chilli and roasted peanuts.

Hanoi – Vietnam

Bun cha: Seasoned pork and pork belly are grilled over a charcoal fire, then added to a scrumptious broth, with an amazing flavour enhancer, fish sauce, finished with a number of fresh herbs and rice noodles. Yum, yum.

Hong Kong – China

Siu Mai: Delectable little Cantonese dumpling morsels with fish or meat paste, often with a bit of pork or no pork, then topped off with sweet soya sauce and chilli oil. What a treat.

Tokyo – Japan

Takoyaki: Fried in small cast-iron frying pans these crispy, golf-ball-sized snacks, made of wheat flour, green onions and chopped up octopus, the sauce (Mentsuyu) made from Worcestershire, ketchup, sugar, gives it a hearty, memorable, taste. A gem.

Singapore – Singapore

Hainanese Chicken Rice: The rice makes this dish – cooked with chicken stock, ginger, garlic, pandan leaf, a sweet, nutty floral, taste, then sliced tender chicken are added and a spicy chilli sauce. Heavenly.

Cebu – Phillippines

Lechon: Ultra crispy skin and garlicky and citrusy notes of lemongrass pieces of tender pork sliced from a whole pig. The the best pork ever.