Temple Street
Hongkong,China.
In the 1920s, vendors gathered there to serve temple-goers; a century on, the crowds descend nightly for cheap clothes and watches, street food, trinkets and teaware.
Yau Ma Tei remains HongKong's most thrillingly ungentrified district, where, if you veer away from the bare-bulb stalls, you might encounter Canton singing houses, fortune-tellers, herbalists, dai pai dong street eats and prostitutes lurking in the shadows.
For street food, head to Woo Sung Street running parallel to the east of Temple St, or to the stretch of Temple St north of the temple. Pull up a chair at an open-air kitchen for wok-fried seafood, noodles, roast meat and plenty of ice-cold beer.