AP:BKK street fruit often contaminated, 67% with unsafe level of coliform bacteria
Sep 14, 2010, 11:21 pm
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AP:BKK street fruit often contaminated, 67% with unsafe level of coliform bacteria
This is a sad report.
Study: Bangkok street fruit often contaminated
BANGKOK – Fruit buyers, beware.
A survey of the Thai capital's ubiquitous fruit carts that sell snack bags filled with juicy watermelon chunks, papaya slivers and exotic treats such as pickled guava has found the fruit also contains unsafe levels of bacteria and chemicals that help keep it looking fresh in Bangkok's tropical ............
Sep 15, 2010, 1:09 pm
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From the Finest restaurants in the World to this. Not much differance. Most of us have eaten it all and most of us are still living & relatively healthy. Life goes on & I for one RGAS sir please let me have another cup of that tasty fruit^^
Sep 15, 2010, 1:49 pm
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A survey of the Thai capital's ubiquitous fruit carts that sell snack bags filled with juicy watermelon chunks, papaya slivers and exotic treats such as pickled guava
Sep 17, 2010, 2:51 am
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Oct 1, 2010, 9:01 pm
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After a total of 5-6 months in Thailand, I've been sick once. A piece of dried squid (I'll try almost anything) and I knew right after I swallowed it that I had a long night ahead....in the head. Something about the taste.
Mostly I eat from the street vendors.
Maybe bad times in Mex and Central America fixed my system years ago.
Mostly I eat from the street vendors.
Maybe bad times in Mex and Central America fixed my system years ago.
Oct 2, 2010, 1:13 am
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I first lived in Thailand in the 1960's, and the fruit carts were the same back then--enticing but unsanitary. Nothing has changed. Even now, I do what my mom did back then--always buy whole fruit in the market or supermarket, scrub it down and disinfect myself, and cut it up with my own (sanitary/sterilized) knife with my own (sanitary/sterilized) hands. Outer peelings get tossed not eaten. Never been sick from eating fruit or anything else in Thailand. And yes, I eat street food, though selectively. I loathe the thought of all night prayer sessions to the porcelain god, and go to lengths to avoid them.