Tod mun pla, or fried fish cakes, is a popular dish from Thailand. The best I’ve eaten were in Bangkok, where a street food vendor was frying them as fast as she could for a line of eager customers.

Other delicious options include a fried fish sandwich, the Yankee fish sandwich with extra fixins, a crab cake sandwich, a ...

Chinese fish cakes (yu biang) are made from fish paste that is steamed until cooked through, and then typically deep-fried to ...