Yaowarat Road is the curving spine of Bangkok's Chinatown, a kilometre of gold shops, herbalists, and shophouses that erupts after dark into one of the most celebrated street-food strips in Asia. As the sun sets, vendors roll out carts and griddles along the pavements, and the road blazes with Chinese-character neon reflected in the glossy paint of the gold dealers.
This is the place to graze on grilled river prawns, oyster omelettes, bird's-nest soup, roast chestnuts, and mango sticky rice, washed down at folding tables on the kerb. Crowded, smoky, and intoxicating, an evening walk down Yaowarat is one of the essential Bangkok experiences.