Bangkok, the world's street-food capital bans street food

In a bid to improve safety and cleanliness, the Thai capital's administration has announced that all of the city's food vendors will be swept from the streets. It comes a month after Bangkok was voted the world's best destination for street food for a second year by CNN. In a statement released on Monday by Wanlop Suwandee, the chief adviser to Bangkok’s governor, he said the Bangkok