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I am convinced that you are less likely to get sick eating street food than eating at a restaurant. I lived in Mexico two years and ate street food all the time. Only time I got food poisoning was at a McDonalds in Mexico City. I lived in Cambodia three years and ate street food all the time. Only time I got food poisoning there was at the airport KFC.
With street food you usually SEE them making your food. At restaurants you don’t know what the heck is happening to your food in the back. Maybe that isn’t the case with food trucks but my street food always came from places like this:
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I am convinced that you are less likely to get sick eating street food than eating at a restaurant. I lived in Mexico two years and ate street food all the time. Only time I got food poisoning was at a McDonalds in Mexico City. I lived in Cambodia three years and ate street food all the time. Only time I got food poisoning there was at the airport KFC.
With street food you usually SEE them making your food. At restaurants you don’t know what the heck is happening to your food in the back. Maybe that isn’t the case with food trucks but my street food always came from places like this:
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I am convinced that you are less likely to get sick eating street food than eating at a restaurant. I lived in Mexico two years and ate street food all the time. Only time I got food poisoning was at a McDonalds in Mexico City. I lived in Cambodia three years and ate street food all the time. Only time I got food poisoning there was at the airport KFC.
With street food you usually SEE them making your food. At restaurants you don’t know what the heck is happening to your food in the back. Maybe that isn’t the case with food trucks but my street food always came from places like this:
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I watch a lot of food blogs on youtube, but I cant stand that guy- he has no personality whatsoever. My favorites are Sonny from the Best Ever Food Review Show and that Strictly Dumplings guy.
I watch a lot of food blogs on youtube, but I cant stand that guy- he has no personality whatsoever. My favorites are Sonny from the Best Ever Food Review Show and that Strictly Dumplings guy.
Almost never but I would if it was good and cheap like I hear it is in a lot of places. I love carnival food that I have long called Fest Food due to my time in Germany and that is basically street food but I go to them anymore. I went to Taste of Tacoma last year for the first time which has all kinds of Street Food and will again. My main eats that day was a smoked turkey leg fries and an Elephant Ear. I drive past all of the Olympia food Trucks because I have this idea that they are over priced and so-so most of the time, which some of them I am sure are not but since I almost always have awesome food at home I cant be bother to go through the pain of finding the good ones. When I go to Seattle I am either going to a game or a very nice restaurant, plus I dont see much street food in seattle which is weird, maybe the rain is a problem or maybe the government is the problem.
I am pretty sure that if I lived in Hong Kong that I would eat it at least 3 days out of 7.
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DC, of course, has a bunch of festivals during the year and at them there's plenty of "fest food." We also have a few events like the Taste of Tacoma.
I wouldn't plan to go to Taste of DC, but I have gone to it and would again. I tend to avail myself of Restaurant Week.
- Taste of DC -- Much of the fare is street food and some is not.
- Restaurant Week -- Happens a few times a year. It's not street food at all, but then it doesn't exactly happen on the street or in an open air setting.
- Metro Cooking DC -- A hybrid of sorts between Restaurant Week and Taste of DC (think "car show" format applied to restaurants, food and cooking in general, but with fancy food). It happens indoors and the food is more refined than is street food.
I've only eaten street food in UK, Canada and Japan.
Hot dogs, kebabs and poutine mostly, but Japan, man... Find some random joints sometimes that make the BEST Yakitori.
Barbecuing is extremely serious business for South Africans and Yakitori is one of my favorite iterations of BBQ'd meat on gods green earth.
Oh, wow. I didn't know there are such things as YouTube vlogs. I really was just looking for something that showed some of the street foods that I'd come across while I worked in the PRC as, among the countries I've spent a lot of time in, China is far and away the one I found most appealing as goes "everyday" eating. (It's not nor even close to my favorite country for lavish eating.)
China is okay, but I find their streetfood to be limited to usually dim sum or noodles (I dont eat the bugs or innards). Vietnam has a huge streetfood culture- there are makeshift stalls on practically every street corner (even though its technically illegal) and their food is awesome. Pho is better than ramen imo, and Banh mi is the greatest sandwich in the world.
Food carts, trucks, stands, or the Tamale lady who goes door to door selling delicious homemade bundles of goodness, I've been eating street food since I was a kid. It was just always around, one of the benefits of growing up in a diverse neighborhood. I've eaten street food thousands of times, and never once gotten sick. It's curious to see street food as being trendy, as you can now find every variety of it in cities like San Francisco, from authentic French cuisine prepared by a native Parisians, to the trusty old $1.25 tacos made fresh at taco trucks.
Do you eat street food? If so which kinds? I'd particularly like to hear from people who've tried street food from around the world, in India or Thailand where it's part of the daily routine for locals.
Oh, wow. I didn't know there are such things as YouTube vlogs. I really was just looking for something that showed some of the street foods that I'd come across while I worked in the PRC as, among the countries I've spent a lot of time in, China is far and away the one I found most appealing as goes "everyday" eating. (It's not nor even close to my favorite country for lavish eating.)
I didn't actually listen to the narration on that video.
Food vlogs, or just vlogs in general? Because I think it's fair to say that this is most of what's done on YouTube, depending on what does and does not qualify as a vlog.
I've been using YouTube to fill the gap left by my decision to forgo cable since around 2012. Most of what I do for entertainment on my off-days revolves around spending hours watching random videos.
Food carts, trucks, stands, or the Tamale lady who goes door to door selling delicious homemade bundles of goodness, I've been eating street food since I was a kid. It was just always around, one of the benefits of growing up in a diverse neighborhood. I've eaten street food thousands of times, and never once gotten sick. It's curious to see street food as being trendy, as you can now find every variety of it in cities like San Francisco, from authentic French cuisine prepared by a native Parisians, to the trusty old $1.25 tacos made fresh at taco trucks.
Do you eat street food? If so which kinds? I'd particularly like to hear from people who've tried street food from around the world, in India or Thailand where it's part of the daily routine for locals.
Food carts, trucks, stands, or the Tamale lady who goes door to door selling delicious homemade bundles of goodness, I've been eating street food since I was a kid. It was just always around, one of the benefits of growing up in a diverse neighborhood. I've eaten street food thousands of times, and never once gotten sick. It's curious to see street food as being trendy, as you can now find every variety of it in cities like San Francisco, from authentic French cuisine prepared by a native Parisians, to the trusty old $1.25 tacos made fresh at taco trucks.
Do you eat street food? If so which kinds? I'd particularly like to hear from people who've tried street food from around the world, in India or Thailand where it's part of the daily routine for locals.
China is okay, but I find their streetfood to be limited to usually dim sum or noodles (I dont eat the bugs or innards). Vietnam has a huge streetfood culture- there are makeshift stalls on practically every street corner (even though its technically illegal) and their food is awesome. Pho is better than ramen imo, and Banh mi is the greatest sandwich in the world.
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