I never get food poisoning in the states but I do here..

[GinBoy2]

Poor hygiene, little or no respect for refrigeration of food, especially seafood, it's a perfect storm.

 

Your can, within reason build up a tolerance to various bacteria associated with un-hygienic food preparation, but there are some hoops to jump through, puking and crapping being the obvious...death is in the mix, but let's not go there.

 

I have an Indian friend who has lived in the US most of his adult life, and when he went back to Bangalore for a vacation got some sage advice from his Mom.

 

"Son, I know you love street food, but you have a western stomach now, so stay away"

[transam]

I don't eat Thai food...I learned my lesson many years back....Now I cook my own stuff with trusted ingriedience...

But, Mrs.Trans frowns at that, but then she is OK with spending a lot of time in the looooo...????

[stevemac]

But surely their kitchens should be better cleansed than say some street vendor selling pork on a stick?
That's just what I think.

The street vendor probably doesn't store a lot of produce, reducing the risk. The wok is always on the go and fast turnover at street vendor
Restaurants tend to store more and risk out of date or cross contaminated food.
I have never had a problem at street vendors, but have a quite a robust constitution.
When I have had problems its normally been when eating western food in Thailand

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[CharlieH]

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[Mitkof Island]

Odd i have heard this more this once. Foreigners eating at expensive restaurants believing the food is a higher quality and safer. Have you learned a lesson here?

[transam]

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2 minutes ago, Mitkof Island said:

Odd i have heard this more this once. Foreigners eating at expensive restaurants believing the food is a higher quality and safer. Have you learned a lesson here?

On the rare occasions we eat out, we go to a place that is packed with local folk...The locals know best.....????

[kellersphuket]

5 minutes ago, Mitkof Island said:

Odd i have heard this more this once. Foreigners eating at expensive restaurants believing the food is a higher quality and safer. Have you learned a lesson here?

I have also been poisoned many times by street food stalls. Its not just the so called quality of the establishment, its down to the carelessness of whoever is cooking!

[Mitkof Island]

1 minute ago, transam said:

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On the rare occasions we eat out, we go to a place that is packed with local folk...The locals know best.....????

Yes they do. I see an English menu or many foreigners in a restaurant i am often seen running in the other direction. Not willing to pay 180 baht of more for Fried Rice when i can often find better for 30 baht and often a nicer staff.

[Mitkof Island]

2 minutes ago, kellersphuket said:

I have also been poisoned many times by street food stalls. Its not just the so called quality of the establishment, its down to the carelessness of whoever is cooking!

I never have and have eaten at hundreds of places throughout Thailand.

[transam]

4 minutes ago, Mitkof Island said:

Yes they do. I see an English menu or many foreigners in a restaurant i am often seen running in the other direction. Not willing to pay 180 baht of more for Fried Rice when i can often find better for 30 baht and often a nicer staff.

I don't go to places full of foreigners, and come to think of it, very little written English...I wouldn't pay that for rice either...Local folk won't pay it...But then I am not near a tourist hot spot..

[kellersphuket]

2 minutes ago, FredGallaher said:

We used to call it Montezuma's revenge.  Maybe we could call it KP Pattaya girlfriend's revenge.

Hmmm. Yeh. Suppose.

its all fun and games till your on a hospital bed with tubes out your arms and an oxygen mask on your face!!

[transam]

4 minutes ago, kellersphuket said:

Hmmm. Yeh. Suppose.

its all fun and games till your on a hospital bed with tubes out your arms and an oxygen mask on your face!!

From Pad Thai.......????

[LosLobo]

2 hours ago, NanLaew said:

The OP isn't getting food poisoning, he's simply getting an upset stomach. I would reckon he has a natural intolerance to monosodium glutamate or MSG or pohm chaloat as it's called here. Even the best cooks, especially at western hotels, cheat with this flavor-enhancer. It can cover a multitude of culinary sins.

Not sure where "here" is but in Thailand it's called "phohng chuu roht".

 

If you are correct about the OP having an intolerance to MSG I would suggest he stops eating immediately, as MSG occurs naturally in virtually all food.

 

Cooks use MSG not to "cover culinary sins" but to add one of the 5 basic tastes - umami, the others being sweetness, sourness, bitterness, and saltiness.

 

Edited October 2, 2019 by LosLobo

[Yinn]

22 minutes ago, LosLobo said:

Not sure where "here" is but in Thailand it's called "phohng chuu roht".

 

 

 

Yes. “pong”sound, not “phom”.

pong= powder. 

Same word, pong curry= powder curry. Popular one.

 

why Kellar sick so much? Maybe not wash hands. 

Poor Kellar. 

Get well soon.

[grollies]

2 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

I bow before your gourmetness.....gas station food....only real men eat gas station food anywhere....

I used to live on gas station food (ex-pipeliner).

[Mattd]

59 minutes ago, kellersphuket said:

I have also been poisoned many times by street food stalls. Its not just the so called quality of the establishment, its down to the carelessness of whoever is cooking!

I seriously doubt that you have been poisoned many times, a bit of a stomach upset with squirts from both ends is not food poisoning, that involves some serious complications and will take you out of the game for days!

 

Most Westerners have an intolerance initially to the food and water here, we as a race have lost our natural immunity to handle certain types of bacteria and it takes time to become immune again, each strain of 'foreign' bacteria we encounter causes the discomfort, but it also builds the immunity.

Whilst I agree all food should be prepared with a decent level of hygiene, the Western world has taken this to the extreme and consequently it affects us when we encounter bacteria that has been bred out.

[Heminda]

I never get Food poisoning here, but I do in the states

[Nyezhov]

2 hours ago, kellersphuket said:

Say what??

how can customers be blamed for being poisoned?

your logic is beyond all comprehension! 

well dude, when you roll up to the veggie patch, watch some dude blast a dookie into a ditch two feet from the veggies, then without somuch as even saying the word wash, he hands you a cuc and invites you to take a bite......

 

 

[RJRS1301]

Only ever been sick once in Thailand from the food, and that was after a lunch at a very "smart" hotel restaurant in BKK.

Generally eat market/street food at least once a day.

Food cooked at high heat, fresh is not likely to make you unwell, as the high heat kills most of any bugs

 

 

Edited October 2, 2019 by RJRS1301

[55Jay]

1 hour ago, FredGallaher said:

I got sick a couple of times in US from frozen shrimp. Here we get fresh shrimp and I haven't had problems. But some people are afraid to try anything new (their loss)

Water systems in most areas are good. Although not as easy to see the water cycle is the same in the US. Water pumped from rivers go to treatment plants, is treated , filtered and put in the pipe. The process is the same here. When you see a water tower stop and ask. They have the same multi step process as in the US. Neither system removes all dissolved pesticides so it good both in the US and here to have charcoal filtration.

Water treatment is the same here as _____________. 

That's a whopper.  It's not even universal within Thailand itself.

The subtle dig about people afraid to try something new. Noted. ✅ 

 

At least you left the escape hatch open with the word "mostly".  Good move considering the glaringly obvious lack of standards, workmanship and compliance/QA/QC.  That's not a bash, it just is.

 

You REALLY think you're the only guy who ever thought to stop and check out the gear and infrastructure at one's local reservoir?  Or perhaps inquire with the Tessaban guys in that softly-softly way so they don't start telling porkies like, "Yeah, buddy, we do same as in the USA!". ????

[Tayaout]

7 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

well dude, when you roll up to the veggie patch, watch some dude blast a dookie into a ditch two feet from the veggies, then without somuch as even saying the word wash, he hands you a cuc and invites you to take a bite......

 

 

Some workers dumping in a field is nothing. They spray pig sludge on vegan veggies all the time. Fortunately this is only an issue if they do it too close to harvest. 

 

 

Edited October 2, 2019 by Tayaout

[CGW]

If you get a bad reaction to the food here don't go to the middle east, I got amoebic dysentery in Egypt. 

I shared two plates of SomTam with black crab in Nana one night many moons ago when I had just come in from offshore, never touched the stuff since, I threw up all the way down Sukhumvit from the back of a TukTuk and was sick for a couple of days, but that was nothing compared to the Egyptian experience!

[NCC1701A]

6 hours ago, kellersphuket said:

Is it a lack of basic hygiene or is it something else?

did you ever hear from your girlfriend that threw the beer on you?

[andy72]

i think its that 23 year old you abandonded without paying
she has spread your photo on social media like wildfire
violently ill sfter 5 hrs thats someone wipin there as*** with your spoon
bon apetit farang mf i think is the term i heard her use
you should only eat out of a 7/11 microwave from now on:)

[spiekerjozef]

Your stomach is used to all that american <deleted> and junk food. as soon you eat real vegetables you got problems

[simon43]

I haven't had a single incident of food poisoning since I started to make (and drink) keffir milk.

 

In my gut,. there are now billions of aggressive probiotic 'bugs' just itching for a fight with any food-borne bacteria......

 

Probiotic troop back-up is given every day....

 

Keffir milk/yogurt smells pretty strong and is sharp as a knife, but definite works to look after your gut.

[Slip]

4 minutes ago, simon43 said:

I haven't had a single incident of food poisoning since I started to make (and drink) keffir milk.

 

In my gut,. there are now billions of aggressive probiotic 'bugs' just itching for a fight with any food-borne bacteria......

 

Probiotic troop back-up is given every day....

 

Keffir milk/yogurt smells pretty strong and is sharp as a knife, but definite works to look after your gut.

What the hell is a keffir, and how do you milk them?  ???? I'm glad I know you're not a saffer simon or we could all be in trouble.  

[ratcatcher]

6 hours ago, kellersphuket said:

any proof on this statement?

Sounds like prison stuff.

A few videos for your edification.  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=spitting+in+food

[Chazar]

6 hours ago, mauGR1 said:

Being a vegetarian

eh??? isnt salad  one of the easiest ways to get food  poisoning

[mauGR1]

11 minutes ago, Chazar said:

eh??? isnt salad  one of the easiest ways to get food  poisoning

Surely not if you properly wash the vegs.

Btw, i almost never eat salad, vegetarians don't need a lot of raw food, while eating raw food is quite recommended to carnivores.