Melanie Wood, CNNgo

Journalist Lydia Tomkiw visits a night market in northern Jakarta and reports for CNNgo on the handful of cobra blood vendors who bleed the snakes for locals and tourists, and sometimes mix their blood with alcohol as a cocktail.

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John Thomson

Remember Hangover Heaven, the mobile "clinic" treating hangovers in Vegas for $90 a pop? Let's take a moment to admire the original hangover-cure pushers and street-meat vendors of London. The photos are by John Thomson, a Scottish photojournalist who paired with radical journalist Adolphe Smith to produce a monthly magazine covering London's working class, Street Life in London. When their series was published as a book in 1877, it immediately became a bestseller.

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Clarissa Wei

Lobster roll from Luke's Lobster, $8

The Hester Street Fair kicked off Saturday with a solid turnout and an amazing selection of vendors. We got to the Lower East Side around noon, and though there was a crowd beginning to form, the area was definitely still navigable.

No worries if you missed out on the opening-day festivities. Located on the corner of Hester and Essex, the street fair will be here for New Yorkers until October 27. There's a good mix of vintage antique stores and food vendors--but be warned, the foot traffic tends to gravitate toward the food.

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A string of nine armed robberies in Queens, mostly along Junction and Queens boulevards, has the New York City Police Department keeping a careful eye on food carts along major thoroughfares in the borough -- the target of eight of those stickups (the ninth victim was a livery cab driver). Most of the victims have been Asian males between the ages of 37 and 55, and the robberies occurred between Friday, March 2, and Saturday, March 10.

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Right half of the line, Smorgasburg at the Brooklyn Flea, Williamsburg, Saturday, 3:15 p.m. (Click on image to enlarge.)

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Eight restaurants participated under red paper lanterns.

The promotional website MalaysiaKitchenNYC.com staged a noodle-themed event this afternoon on the north end of the Meatpacking District, in the square formed by the confluence of Ninth Avenue, Greenwich Street, and West 14th Street.

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Scantily clad dude toasts the crowd from atop one of the semis that pulls the floats in the parade.

Though its antecedents can be traced to Carnival parties in Harlem in the 1920s, the Caribbean-American Labor Day Parade (there is no official name) began in the mid-'60s. It resembles in almost all respects the Mardi-Gras celebrations held in New Orleans and Trinidad, which occur 40 days before Easter, at the beginning of Lent in the Christian calendar.

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Mr. Tasty wants to be your snacky friend.

Wandering back from a bar last evening around 10, a friend and I stumbled on a new mobile vendor called Mr. Tasty. "He reminds me of Barack Obama," said my companion, noting the resemblance of the cartoon visage of Mr. Tasty to the president.

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Patron saint of Naples, San Gennaro casts his eyes heavenward, in despair over the preponderance of fried food at his festival.

San Gennaro (English: Saint Januarius) is the patron saint of Naples, Italy, a Catholic bishop who was martyred in the Diocletianic Persecution of 305. The festival was founded by four immigrant families from Naples in 1924 on the block of Mulberry Street between Hester and Grand, making this the 86th annual festival.

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Pork fat, Chinese sausage, and boiled peanuts lurk in the depths.

One might legitimately balk at paying $4 for a zongzi, those streamed glutinous rice bombs stuffed with good things and wrapped in bamboo that you can get in Chinatown for one buck. But in NYC Cravings' defense, their zongzi are awfully good, available in Midtown, and ready to eat instead of needing to be steamed.

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