USD 33.00. INR .465. MYR 8.12. The exchange board glows red and orange in the narrow alley, its light falling across the wet pavement where a woman in a white dress is buying noodles from a cart.
This is Bangkok at midnight. Currencies from thirty countries, all of them welcome, all of them converted at the same rate into something hot from a wok.
The world meets here, one bowl at a time.