Food vendors have their say on being cleared from Bangkok's streets

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Voices from the Sidewok

 

 

 

[dabhand]

This is also getting traction on the BBC.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39768764

[daveAustin]

Don't know what to make of this. On the one hand, the country's capital needs to move with the times - plus the hygiene/pedestrian access aspects etc - but on the other the place seems to be losing its 'Thainess' bit by bit.

[Johnnyngai]

I am a little afraid of street food due to their 2 buckets of water for everything, but I would like all the lower class Thais to keep their living.   If I have to eat street food to show my support, I am willing to take a risk of diarrhea.     

[Lumbini]

As someone who loves to walk I would love to have the sidewalk free of food carts and motorcycles ASAP . Every food sold on the street is loaded with msg so you pay a big price for that taste neurotoxin to the brain and a giving up of the sidewalk to walk on . It's a no brainer get the food off the sidewalks there are many places for this to exist other that the area made so people can walk .

[NoshowJones]

59 minutes ago, Lumbini said:

As someone who loves to walk I would love to have the sidewalk free of food carts and motorcycles ASAP . Every food sold on the street is loaded with msg so you pay a big price for that taste neurotoxin to the brain and a giving up of the sidewalk to walk on . It's a no brainer get the food off the sidewalks there are many places for this to exist other that the area made so people can walk .

Let them stay on the sidewalks provided there are no obstructions, and pedestrians can walk freely both ways at the same time, and concentrate on getting these motorcycle morons off the pavements and on to the road where they belong.

[SiamBeast]

How about keeping them but forcing them to adhere to a strict set of rules:

 

- No high-fructose corn syrup in any product, no exceptions

- No MSG in any product

- No meat cooking under the sun

- Eggs must be refrigirated

 

Those who break the rules get a warning, then lose their right.

[Notmyploblem]

Get them off the footpaths! could care less where they go with their vats of boiling oil as long as long as they are away from pedestrians 

[MW72]

1 hour ago, SiamBeast said:

How about keeping them but forcing them to adhere to a strict set of rules:

 

- No high-fructose corn syrup in any product, no exceptions

- No MSG in any product

- No meat cooking under the sun

- Eggs must be refrigirated

 

Those who break the rules get a warning, then lose their right.

No need to refrigerate eggs.

 

http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-heres-why-we-need-to-refrigerate-eggs-20140714-story.html

 

I would agree on the other points though. I've never been ill from eating street food but a little bit more hygiene and less of the junk additives isn't a bad idea.

[Lumbini]

How about keeping them but forcing them to adhere to a strict set of rules:  

- No high-fructose corn syrup in any product, no exceptions

- No MSG in any product

- No meat cooking under the sun

- Eggs must be refrigirated

 

Those who break the rules get a warning, then lose their right.

 

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Get them off the footpaths! could care less where they go with their vats of boiling oil as long as long as they are away from pedestrians 

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