Bangkok

Street food in Thailand without getting sick?

I want the stall. I do not want a week in the room. Health pages and “I ate everything” are not the same sentence.

Cooked to order, or walk

If	Do	Skip
Food comes off the heat in front of you, steaming	That is the CDC-shaped stall	A tray that has been sitting
Fruit	Peel it yourself	Cut fruit from a bucket of ice water
Ice in the drink	CDC Thailand still flags ice with tap caution	Treating a busy stall as a lab
Kid, pregnancy, immune risk	Conservative: sealed drinks, hot food	A forum promising you will be fine

CDC Yellow Book (Thailand): street food can transmit travellers’ diarrhoea; cook-to-order, hot, peel fruit, bottled or sealed drinks. Fluoroquinolone-resistant bugs are noted for the region. First 72 hours is not a clinic. This is not medical advice.

Which city, and if anyone in the group is high-risk.

Food

11 comments

Ploy

Busy stall, food off the wok, you watch it. I eat that. A tray in the sun is how people collect a story. I will not certify your stomach.

18d

Mint Saelim

Ice: I still drink it at some places. That is me. CDC is the conservative page. Do not make me your clinician.

18d

Hannah Miles

I am on bottled for the glass. The stall is a different fork. Cooked and hot. I would not start with raw garnishes the first night.

18d

Nate Grant

10 nights, first time. I will do hot and busy. I am not doing a raw shrimp experiment to prove a point.

17d

Helen Marsh

Kids: sealed drinks, food that is actually hot. I am not running a CDC debate at 21:00 with two tired people.

17d

Dan Okafor

Price is not a hygiene score. A 40-baht bowl can be fine. A 300-baht tourist grill can sit. Watch the heat.

17d

Tess de Vries

I booked a pin first. Dinner is second. I would still pick a busy soi over a dark bucket of cut fruit.

17d

Yuki Mori

DMK landing at 01:00 is not a street-food night. Sealed. The stall is tomorrow in daylight.

17d

Kit Rattana

Same heat rule in Chiang Mai. Different city, same tray-in-the-sun problem. I would not start with nam prik you cannot see being made.

17d

Lauren Peck

US, 6 Sep. I am screenshotting CDC, not a TikTok. Hot food. Bottled. I can get brave later.

16d

James Collingwood

Resistant bugs are the CDC line people skip. This is not “take Cipro from a Facebook post.” Read the page. I am not a doctor.

16d

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