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Medan: Asia's Most Incredible Food is in Indonesia's Notorious Slum City
In northeast Sumatra, there's a city called Medan- explained in a popular tourist guidebook with the three-word summary: "don't go here." It's loud, abrasive, and intense, with crumbling infrastructure and a grim reputation. But this reputation has meant that one of the best food cities on Earth has gone unnoticed, and exciting culinary secrets are still hidden in plain sight. In this video we spend a day food-crawling Medan, exploring the city's incredible cuisine and coming to terms with the human toll of the difficulty of life in Indonesia's "Gotham."
