Peter Yeung reports on the politics of street food in Bangkok - an informal industry currently under threat from the forces of gentrification.
For decades Bangkok’s technicolor and chaotic Khao San Road has been serving up mountains of pad thai, mango sticky rice and barbecued scorpion.
At the heart of the market, which looks like a locale from Blade Runner, is an army of vendors – often working long hours for meagre pay – who cook and sell the city’s iconic street food, widely considered the best in the world.
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