[ChrisGoldstein]

Do you know where you contracted Cholera and Hepatitis from? Street vendors in Thailand are fairly safe. Just as clean, and sometimes more clean, than kitchens at fancier resturaunts. What areas of Thailand were you in at the time?

To answer your question,, I was in Pattaya/chonburi and in Tuy Hua RSVN

[parishilton]

the french fries for both places are made at a plant in Moses Lake Washington. From the same spuds,,so can't be much difference.

It's all in the cut my friend, all in the cut.

[Assunkkensatt]

Started to change when the first machines came to Siam, and it is changing faster everyday,,but thats the cost of progress.

You either progress or die, there is no standing still.

You want cars, pickups, televisions and motorcycles instead of elephants, buffalo, and bicycles then you adjust.

[Green_Monkey23]

Most of the time I eat Thai food but if I go to an American food chain I prefer Sizzler. It's more expensive than McD, BK or KFC, but the quality is much better.

[ChrisGoldstein]

Hepatitis A or immune globulin (IG). Transmission of hepatitis A virus can occur through direct person-to-person contact; through exposure to contaminated water, ice, or shellfish harvested in contaminated water; or from fruits, vegetables, or other foods that are eaten uncooked and that were contaminated during harvesting or subsequent handling.[ed note] Which also includes dishes washed and rinsed in cold water..

Hepatitis B, especially if you might be exposed to blood or body fluids (for example, health-care workers), have sexual contact with the local population, or be exposed through medical treatment. Hepatitis B vaccine is now recommended for all infants and for children ages 11–12 years who did not receive the series as infants.

Typhoid, particularly if you are visiting developing countries in this region. Typhoid fever can be contracted through contaminated drinking water or food, or by eating food or drinking beverages that have been handled by a person who is infected. Large outbreaks are most often related to fecal contamination of water supplies or foods sold by street vendors

Mostly all water from ponds is contaminated with fecal matter or coliform because during heavy rains or flooding all houses have cess pools that are just raw sewerage containers and will overflow and this overflow is mixed into the water and gets into ponds where shrimp or fish are raised and sold for human food, we have a 7 rai pond where such things happen and where fish are raised and sold in the market. There also happens to be a sand clay layer down 4 meters and all the cess pools [which average 3 meters deep] run along at that depth because of the clay layer they can go no lower and this water is fed into the wells here as well as the ponds because and there is no water below that as I drilled 160 meter and never hit water.

[ChrisGoldstein]

All the time I see how clean the street venders are, but I think that the reason their food is so clean and tasty is the thich covering of flies that keep the dirt and dust caused by dog crap and spit and ground to a fine powder from passing cars and foot traffic off it.
Also when you are eating your Pat Thai always eat the spice that looks kinda like a fly that is cooked in it,,MMMmmmgood.
I think the law about having tight, fly proof screens surrounding all eaterys is a very good law, don't you?? and what do you think of the law that keeps cats off the tables and cooking surfaces,,as well as dogs, and the rules that all food handlers have clean hands and to wash them after a head call or playing with the animals that live under the tables, and especially after they wipe their runny nose on the back of their serving hand.
I have not been out of the country in 5 years and will not leave for another 5 , but I will continue to eat food from my own kitchen, and in my own home.