South East Asia offers some of the best examples of fiery snacks.
Whether you love the ginger-chilli fusion or hate the pungent smell of fish sauce-everyone's taste buds deserve the chance to experience this culinary adventure.
Here are our top five Asian delights:

• Top of the list it's got to be Tom Yum Curry-it's in the name! The distinctiveness of this curry soup is its hot yet sour quality.
  Beware of adding extra chillies unless, that is, you enjoy pain.
  
• Pulling in at a close second is the Malay Banana Leaf Curry.
  You will be presented with a fresh banana leaf and five to eight little pots containing curries, chutneys and rice.
  Don't make the common mistake of waiting for a plate and cutlery: in front of you is all you will need.
  The leaf acts as a plate (surely the most environmentally friendly plate known to mankind) and you simply scoop up the rice with the accompaniments and tuck in.
  Wash it down with a lassi: a salty or sweet yogurt-based drink which is often flavoured with roasted cumin.
  
• Skewered locusts.
  Enough said.
  
• If you visit a local person's home in Laos then you may be offered a sip of Lao homebrew rice whisky with a surprise: it has a scorpion in the bottle! It can be deemed offensive to decline this traditional beverage when offered - you have been warned!
• It looks icky but it is surprisingly Moorish with its sweet and sour taste.
  Fish head curry is exactly what is says on the tin.
  Give it a go and, if nothing else, you'll have a tale to tell back home-or should that be a head?!