Well you had Roman Polanski and we have good and bad street food.

Hanuman- The dense can make you weary!!

Silly Bob- Taxi drivers all from Isaan? With your line of logic, would it be safe to say that all fat western tourists are stupid Americans?

(pssst, Mango, Bob is joking)

I'm sure that some people think that Thailand is all about 5-star hotels, grinning dancers with pointy hats and metallic finger extensions, ladyboys, luxury bland buffets and floating markets photographed from air conditioned buses. And their impressions would be correct as well. Hey, and some of them will get diarrhea anyway.

Third stall down from soi Silom on soi Convent. Pork and vegetables over rice. My regular lunch in Bangkok. Best food on the soi!

Sorry, Bob. That one went over my head. I hadn't warmed up completely when I wrote that...

Hey, Thailand truly isn't an adventure until you're sitting in a stall pushing out water at least one time(I'm sure the dogster can attest to that). I still lmao when thinking of the those moments.

Fire water, lol

km, you forgot my fav and the one that says the most

<i>When in Rome eat Chinese, when in China eat Italian......words from a famous panda I know.....</i>

As the poster asking the original question, "What rules do other travellers apply[to eating street food]?" this has been a fascinating discussion. I haven't moved far from my original perhaps timid assessment, but will try to judge the vendor's stall when next tempted by something that looks really delicious.

Reading about travel is the next best thing to travelling, and the posters on this forum are a great, informed and combative bunch!

Damm u dogster... I wanted to be the 100th poster!

Yes, I thought I'd strike at the cosmic moment.

Fodor’s Obsolesce

That would be an interesting thread.

And just for the "record" there have been several posts on Fodors that claim that in order to experience the REAL Thailand one should do this or that- we are heading for BKK for our 3rd trip and what ever we do it will be REAL!

Fair enough. I (of course) was referring to this thread.

I am merely just the original poster, but I would love to see a few more Thai street food galleries rather than read some of these sterile (or are they contaminated?) comments about not eating the stuff.

I would also love to see food galleries showing what those who don't eat street food eat when they are in Thailand.

When I went to a luxury hotel in Phuket, there was a German night with sausages and sauerkraut.

Just cause people don't eat off the street, doesn't mean they don't eat Thai food

Hmmm... there were about 105 replies to this thread and now there seem to be fewer than 100. Who got deleted? I hope it wasn't me!

<i>Just cause people don't eat off the street, doesn't mean they don't eat Thai food.</i>

Absolutely. That's why I want to see your photos.

I eat quite a bit of Thai food at home in Paris, so it is very definitely not on the street!