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Best Food & Drink Destinations in Asia

100 city guides · 3-day food & drink itineraries

3-day city guides built around local cuisine, street food, markets and dining culture.

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Agra

Dalmoth spice mixes, sugar-glazed petha, tandoori Mughal kebabs and the bedai-jalebi breakfast that …

Asia
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan

Ashgabat

Sunday bazaar mutton, tandyr-baked çörek, Akhal-Teke camel milk and marble-lobby restaurants where a…

Asia
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan

Astana

Horse-meat kazy at the Green Bazaar, hand-pulled beshbarmak noodles, fermented mare's milk and the n…

Asia
🇧🇳 Brunei

Bandar Seri Begawan

Sago starch twirled on bamboo chandas, midnight satay at Gadong night market and kuih-laden Tamu sta…

Asia
🇮🇩 Indonesia

Bandung

Colonial-market breakfasts, batagor and mie kocok, 1930s coffee houses and the after-dark stalls of …

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Bangalore

Benne masala dosa, military hotel mutton, Russell Market spice stalls and Indiranagar brewpubs acros…

Asia
🇹🇭 Thailand

Bangkok

Morning wet markets, Michelin street stalls, southern curry houses and rooftop-free craft beer, eate…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Beijing

Chef-supply markets, century-old snack counters, instant-boiled mutton, Ghost Street crayfish and Ch…

Asia
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

Bukhara

Dawn bazaars, Gijduvan rice plov cooked in cottonseed oil, tandir somsa and mulberry-shaded teahouse…

Asia
🇰🇷 South Korea

Busan

Refugee noodles and pork-bone broth, Yeongdo fish cakes, Gijang crab and raw fish eaten within sight…

Asia
🇵🇭 Philippines

Cebu City

Wet-market breakfasts, lechon belly by the kilo, grilled tuna panga on Larsian's smoke-filled alley …

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Chengdu

Spice markets at dawn, the birthplace of mapo tofu, skewer lanes in Yulin and gaiwan tea in a 1920s …

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Chennai

Mylapore mess kitchens, Kasimedu fish fry, Sowcarpet sweet shops and the Chettinad pepper-mutton cou…

Asia
🇹🇭 Thailand

Chiang Mai

Yunnanese curry noodles, herb-packed sai ua, riverside produce halls and northern Lanna dining rooms…

Asia
🇯🇵 Japan

Chiba

Kabayaki eel on the pilgrimage road, Kujukuri sardines, Chiba peanut everything, and sake breweries …

Asia
🇧🇩 Bangladesh

Chittagong

Mezbani beef curry, Kalabhuna, dried Bay of Bengal fish and Kacchi biryani across the port city's ma…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Chongqing

Numbing chili oil, 6am xiaomian stalls, riverside night markets and the beef-tallow broth that made …

Asia
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

Colombo

Sri Lankan rice and curry, hoppers, kottu roti, Ministry of Crab and string hoppers…

Asia
🇻🇳 Vietnam

Da Nang

Wet-market breakfasts, alley bánh xèo, Nam Ô raw fish salad and specialty coffee — the central-coast…

Asia
🇰🇷 South Korea

Daegu

Flat dumplings, grilled pork intestine, spicy jjimgalbi and the city that invented chicken-and-beer …

Asia
🇰🇷 South Korea

Daejeon

Ojingeo bokkeum stalls, the country's most famous bakery, kalguksu alleys and Eunhaeng-dong's late-n…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Dalian

Yellow Sea shellfish auctions at dawn, hand-pulled Dalian-style seafood dumplings, Russian-era baker…

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Delhi

Wholesale spice lanes, a 1913 Mughlai kitchen, unlimited Andhra meals and cocktails built on kokum a…

Asia
🇮🇩 Indonesia

Denpasar

Suckling pig at dawn, nasi campur counters at noon and Pasar Malam Kereneng smoke at midnight — the …

Asia
🇧🇩 Bangladesh

Dhaka

Wholesale fish markets at sunrise, sealed clay biryani pots at noon and banana-leaf Bengali thalis a…

Asia
🇵🇰 Pakistan

Faisalabad

Halwa puri inside the eight Union Jack bazaars, charcoal tikka on D Ground food street, and winter f…

Asia
🇯🇵 Japan

Fukuoka

Hakata ramen counters, the last surviving open-air yatai culture in Japan, and the Genkai Sea catch …

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Fuzhou

Hollow pork-filled fish balls, red-yeast-rice lees stews, oyster-cake stalls and Min-cuisine banquet…

Asia
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

Galle

Clay-pot curries inside the Fort walls, dawn produce on Main Street, harbour-fresh seer fish and han…

Asia
🇰🇷 South Korea

Gwangju

Five-day country markets, duck-soup alleys, charcoal-grilled tteokgalbi and lettuce-wrapped squid fr…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Hangzhou

Wet markets at dawn, century-old Zhejiang kitchens, Longjing tea villages and the sizzle of Shengjia…

Asia
🇻🇳 Vietnam

Hanoi

Wet markets, single-dish specialists, egg coffee and kerbside draught beer, eaten the way Hanoi eats…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Harbin

Guodian roupian, red sausage, kvass and hotpot across Daoli, Daowai and the Songhua riverbank…

Asia
🇯🇵 Japan

Hiroshima

Layered okonomiyaki griddles, Seto Inland Sea oysters, tsukemen heat and the sake breweries of Saijō…

Asia
🇻🇳 Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City

Wet markets at dawn, Chợ Lớn noodle alleys, charcoal-grilled cơm tấm and third-wave Vietnamese coffe…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Hong Kong

The world's greatest dim sum culture, Cantonese roasting, wonton noodle soup and Hong Kong milk tea…

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Hyderabad

Wholesale spice bazaars, Osmania biscuits dunked in Irani chai, wheat-pounded haleem and Old City ke…

Asia
🇰🇷 South Korea

Incheon

Black-bean noodles where they were invented, blue crab marinated in soy at Sorae Port, and clam-shac…

Asia
🇵🇰 Pakistan

Islamabad

Peshawari karahi in Melody, fruit and dry-fruit stalls in Aabpara, chapli kebab in Bhara Kahu and 3a…

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Jaipur

Ghee-fried pyaaz kachori at dawn, red-chilli laal maas at noon and terracotta cups of lassi in the P…

Asia
🇮🇩 Indonesia

Jakarta

Wet markets at dawn, Betawi soto and nasi uduk, Glodok's Chinese-Indonesian night carts, and third-w…

Asia
🇰🇷 South Korea

Jeju City

Charcoal-grilled heuk-dwaeji, abalone porridge cooked by diving grandmothers, and omegi-tteok rice c…

Asia
🇦🇫 Afghanistan

Kabul

Kebab lanes, dried-fruit bazaars, mountain-fed melons and the qabuli palau that defines Afghan cooki…

Asia
🇹🇼 Taiwan

Kaohsiung

Dried-goods streets, Cijin fish tanks, Chaozhou noodles, world-champion sourdough and a different ni…

Asia
🇵🇰 Pakistan

Karachi

Dawn nihari on Burns Road, Bohri Bazaar spice stalls, Boat Basin charcoal smoke and a Do Darya sunse…

Asia
🇳🇵 Nepal

Kathmandu

Spice-sack markets in Asan, leaf-plate Newari bhoj in Kirtipur, Thakali thali refills, Bhaktapur's k…

Asia
🇯🇵 Japan

Kobe

Nada sake cellars, teppanyaki counters that invented Kobe beef, Chinatown street snacks and the bake…

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Kolkata

Fish markets at dawn, Mughlai biryani with potato, Chinese breakfast in Tiretta Bazaar and rosogolla…

Asia
🇲🇾 Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur

Three days eating through the world's best-value food city: 6am wet markets, Hokkien mee charred ove…

Asia
🇯🇵 Japan

Kyoto

Yuba and tofu kaiseki, 300-year-old pickle houses, matcha from Uji, sake from Fushimi and standing b…

Asia
🇵🇰 Pakistan

Lahore

Wholesale spice bazaars, dawn trotter stew at Taxali Gate, kilo karahi at Lakshmi Chowk and rooftop …

Asia
🇲🇾 Malaysia

Langkawi

Kuah's morning wet market, Kedah-style fish laksa and tempoyak gulai, open-air seafood, and beach ba…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Lhasa

Yak-butter markets, nun-run sweet tea houses, Barkhor momo kitchens and the charcoal grills of Tianh…

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Lucknow

Galawati kebabs melting off coal grills, 200-year-old sweet shops in Chowk, kulcha-nihari breakfasts…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Macau

Portuguese-Cantonese cooking born of 450 years of trade — minchi, African chicken, almond cookies an…

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Madurai

Wholesale flower markets at dawn, midnight kothu parotta on West Masi Street, and the mutton mess ha…

Asia
🇲🇻 Maldives

Male

Smoked-tuna breakfasts, afternoon short-eat trays and reef fish grilled on the sand across the world…

Asia
🇲🇲 Myanmar

Mandalay

Dawn market grazing at Zegyo, Shan-style khao swè in Chinatown, and 27th Street barbecue washed down…

Asia
🇵🇭 Philippines

Manila

Wet markets at dawn, century-old mami houses, Kapampangan sisig and a tasting-menu finale, plus the …

Asia
🇮🇩 Indonesia

Medan

Wet markets at dawn, kopi tiam mornings on Jalan Hindu, Aceh noodles, Karo grilled pork and Chinatow…

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Mumbai

Crawford Market spice halls, Parsi berry pulao at Britannia, Matunga filter coffee and the dabbawala…

Asia
🇯🇵 Japan

Nagoya

Fish-market breakfasts, free ogura toast, ankake spaghetti and hatcho miso straight from the cedar v…

Asia
🇯🇵 Japan

Naha

Goya champuru, Okinawa soba, sea grapes and 300-year-old awamori through Naha's markets, alleys and …

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Nanning

Old Friend noodles at dawn, snail rice noodle at midnight, and the Zhuang sour-and-sticky pantry in …

Asia
🇲🇲 Myanmar

Naypyidaw

Eat where the civil servants eat: Thabyaygone's market kitchens, Pyinmana's old-town tea shops and t…

Asia
🇹🇼 Taiwan

New Taipei City

Agei tofu at Tamsui wharf, Yonghe soy milk at dawn, Keelung-river seafood and hillside oolong brewed…

Asia
🇯🇵 Japan

Okayama

Peach-and-muscat orchards, a 400-year-old sushi protest dish, brown-sauce katsu and standing bars al…

Asia
🇯🇵 Japan

Osaka

Morning market breakfasts, counter-side okonomiyaki, standing bars under the tracks and Osaka's own …

Asia
🇧🇹 Bhutan

Paro

Ema datshi kitchens, the Sunday vegetable market, buckwheat noodles and butter-tea farmhouses in Bhu…

Asia
🇹🇭 Thailand

Pattaya

Naklua's morning catch, Soi Buakhao's charcoal smoke and the stilt-house seafood of Bang Saray…

Asia
🇰🇭 Cambodia

Phnom Penh

Wet markets at dawn, banana-leaf amok, Kampot pepper crab and rooftop sundowners over the Mekong…

Asia
🇹🇭 Thailand

Phuket

Wet markets at dawn, Sino-Portuguese kopitiams at noon and cook-your-own-catch seafood piers at suns…

Asia
🇵🇭 Philippines

Puerto Princesa

Wood-shell woodworm eaten raw, crocodile sisig on a sizzling plate, and Honda Bay tuna grilled roads…

Asia
🇲🇾 Malaysia

Putrajaya

Nasi lemak at dawn in Presint 9's morning market, ikan bakar over charcoal at Selera Putra, and Mala…

Asia
🇰🇵 North Korea

Pyongyang

Naengmyeon at Okryu-gwan, sizzling Taedonggang duck barbecue and draught beer at the Rakwon microbre…

Asia
🇵🇭 Philippines

Quezon City

Wet markets at dawn, Ilocos and Kapampangan classics at noon, and inuman nights of sizzling sisig, c…

Asia
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

Samarkand

Zerafshan-valley cooking traced from the Siab melon stalls to the kazan-fired plov centres, samsa ta…

Asia
🇯🇵 Japan

Sapporo

Dawn crab auctions at Jogai Market, butter-corn miso ramen in a back alley, Genghis Khan lamb over c…

Asia
🇯🇵 Japan

Sendai

Charcoal-grilled beef tongue, Shiogama tuna auctions, bamboo-leaf fish cake and edamame sweets acros…

Asia
🇰🇷 South Korea

Seoul

Brass-coin lunch trays in Tongin Market, stone-milled bindaetteok at Gwangjang, glassy jokbal in Jan…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Shanghai

Wet-market breakfasts, thirty-seat red-braising canteens, sesame noodles, 1920s food halls and a boo…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Shenyang

Morning markets, 200-year-old dumpling houses, Koreatown lengmian and Dongbei's biggest night-market…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Shenzhen

Morning dim sum trolleys, Chaoshan hand-sliced beef hotpot, Hakka village kitchens and Guangdong's m…

Asia
🇰🇭 Cambodia

Siem Reap

Morning noodle stalls, fermented-fish markets, a Khmer cooking class and Cambodia's first craft brew…

Asia
🇸🇬 Singapore

Singapore

Michelin-starred hawker chicken rice, Peranakan buah keluak, Katong laksa and foraged-ingredient coc…

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Surat

Steamed locho at Ghari Street, winter ponk on Tapi's banks and midnight khaman on Ghod Dod Road in I…

Asia
🇹🇼 Taiwan

Taichung

Trace bubble tea to its 1980s birthplace, eat your way through Taiwan's biggest night market, and hu…

Asia
🇹🇼 Taiwan

Taipei

Wet markets at dawn, Michelin-listed noodle counters, Dadaocheng tea houses and Xinyi cocktail bars …

Asia
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

Tashkent

Cauldrons of Tashkent plov, tandoor bread pulled hot from clay ovens, Chorsu spice mountains and Sov…

Asia
🇧🇹 Bhutan

Thimphu

Ema datshi, hand-pleated momo, suja butter tea and home-distilled ara — eaten where Thimphu eats…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Tianjin

Dawn Hui breakfast lanes, the city's three legendary snacks, and 1900s European pastry counters on t…

Asia
🇯🇵 Japan

Tokyo

Eat your way from Toyosu's tuna auction floor to Shinjuku's six-seat yakitori counters, via departme…

Asia
🇲🇳 Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar

Steamed buuz counters, dairy halls stacked with aaruul, hot-stone khorkhog and the coldest capital's…

Asia
🇱🇦 Laos

Vientiane

Charcoal grill aisles, lunch-only Lao kitchens, riverweed snacks and the country's only big brewery …

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Wuhan

Hot dry noodles at 6am, sesame-oil bean skin rolls, numbing Zhou Hei Ya duck necks and Hubei river-f…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Xiamen

Wet-market breakfasts, satay-peanut noodle counters, live-tank seafood canteens and Anxi Tieguanyin,…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Xian

Hand-pulled biang biang noodles, crumbled paomo bread, cumin lamb skewers and Jingyang fu-brick tea …

Asia
🇲🇲 Myanmar

Yangon

Curry-house trays, Shan noodles, fish-market auctions and Chinatown skewers across three eating days…

Asia
🇮🇩 Indonesia

Yogyakarta

Sweet jackfruit stews, satay grilled on bicycle spokes and charcoal-ember coffee, eaten where Jogja …

Asia
🇯🇵 Japan

Yokohama

From the 1859 treaty-port kitchens of Chūkagai to iekei ramen counters, a wholesale fish market brea…