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Mark Wiens remembers the meal which started it all.

“It was 2010. I was sitting on a street (in Bangkok) and I had ordered three dishes, all stir-fried at a stall right next to this extremely loud highway with buses, motorcycles just whizzing past. I was inches from the road. And then I took a photo and I said the photo is great but...”

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