Slumfood Millionaire, BKK..

[moontang]

Here is a link to the BKK episode.  23 minutes.  https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/video-on-demand/slumfood-millionaire/klong-toey-bangkok-12827884

[BobTH]

Thanks for sharing this, I really enjoyed it. I have moved back to the USA but I used to shop there all the time and knew many of the vendors. One woman would save me the beef tenderloin, which is not easy to buy or find there. I leaned to make a nice tender Thai beef steak from them at a fourth of the price of beef at Villa.

[Orton Rd]

Poverty porn, don't get the rich westerners fascination with slum street food. Mostly cooked in old palm oil among roaches, rats and filth, lovely ????

[josephbloggs]

Thanks for the link, I enjoyed it too.

And typically there had to be one poster to immediately criticise: "rats, filth, palm oil" etc.  Pretty sad.

[luap]

thanks moontang, enjoyed the video cheers

[craighj]

Thanks Moontang, great video and I’ve eaten street food around there, lovely.

Clearly the negative comment was from an expert in Asian Street food ????

[Thainess]

On 7/11/2020 at 1:59 PM, Orton Rd said:

Poverty porn, don't get the rich westerners fascination with slum street food. Mostly cooked in old palm oil among roaches, rats and filth, lovely ????

 

Totally agree. I lived in Thailand for years and ate street food maybe 3 or 4 times. Loaded with salt, sugar, chemicals, pollution and flies. Every time, it left me feeling like I got high blood pressure and heart palpitations. Totally over-rated. Give me an air-conditioned restaurant any day.

[geriatrickid]

On 7/12/2020 at 2:30 AM, josephbloggs said:

Thanks for the link, I enjoyed it too.

And typically there had to be one poster to immediately criticise: "rats, filth, palm oil" etc.  Pretty sad.

Was that poster incorrect?

 

[lopburi3]

3 hours ago, Thainess said:

Totally over-rated. Give me an air-conditioned restaurant any day.

Unless you are thinking the suki/BBQ places that you do the cooking they can be where the danger is greater - unless a very active establishment with many customers the low food turnover invites issues and under-cooking is often the norm.  

[moontang]

Some of the street places that "sell out" everyday, can be a lot safer than migrant workers in a corporate hotel.  AC or not.  

 

Has Thainess self deported?  I noticed the past tense.