IN line with the government's agriculture focus to address food and national security, it is high time to talk about street food innovation and the opportunities that lie with it.

A quick YouTube scan of food vlogs about Southeast Asia shows a big disparity between what is available outside the Philippines versus what we have here. Vloggers such as Mark Weins of Migrationology, Sonny Side of the Best Ever Food Review Show and Luke Martin of Chopsticks Travel, among others, have been making the rounds of the region and one can see how our Asean neighbors have beefed up their street food offerings to make these distinct, unique and significant for visiting tourists.