But no place can rival Southeast Asia when it comes to street food， in large part because so much of its life， not just eating， takes place on the street. Here， the portable meal becomes a sit-down feast. In Vietnam， you pull up a tiny plastic stool on the sidewalk and slurp your pho-beef noodle soup confettied with herbs. You can travel through Malaysia， sampling excellent Malaysian， Chinese， Peranakan （Chinese-Malaysian） and Indian cuisine without ever going indoors. Singapore is famously furnished with a staggering variety of health-department-inspected food stalls.
But even in Iess-antisepitc cities， indigestion is often less a concern than the feeling of melancholy I got from my French hot dog. In Turin a few years ago， on the day before my departure， I searched for the perfect place to have my last lunch. It was a window facing onto an alley. Rectangular trays of pizza were visible through the glass. I pointed to the perfectly red one and received a generous divot of crust and sauce. I ate it slowly， wondering how long it would be before I had such a fine pizza again.
Word
Confetti （v） to scatter small bits of something onto something else
Staggering （adj） shocking because of being extremely large
Antiseptic （adj） clean； having
Melancholy （adj） sad
But even in Iess-antisepitc cities， indigestion is often less a concern than the feeling of melancholy I got from my French hot dog. In Turin a few years ago， on the day before my departure， I searched for the perfect place to have my last lunch. It was a window facing onto an alley. Rectangular trays of pizza were visible through the glass. I pointed to the perfectly red one and received a generous divot of crust and sauce. I ate it slowly， wondering how long it would be before I had such a fine pizza again.
Word
Confetti （v） to scatter small bits of something onto something else
Staggering （adj） shocking because of being extremely large
Antiseptic （adj） clean； having
Melancholy （adj） sad