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kingwilly

that'll learn them!

RDN

The worst food I ever got served - not a meal, but a snack - was from a roadside stall on the way back from Chaiyaphum to Bangkok.

There's a place near a major cross roads with traffic lights where there are dozens of people cooking chicken by the side of the road. Now, I've had this type of chicken many times - a bit of wing and breast on a stick, roasted to perfection - so I knew what to expect.

We stopped near the end of all these stalls and bought some wings that were already wrapped up. BIG mistake.

We got into the car and drove off while the g/f set about opening the package... and inside the chicken was crawling with maggots. It went straight out the window at 80 kph.

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Marmite the Dog

Most meals in India were shite and Strollers rat dinner would be up there too.

stroller

Surprisingly (or not), traveling through India was a culinary experience for me, didn't get the proverbial upset curry stomach. Great vegetarian meals to be had, as well as meat dishes, with common sense and caution applied.

Marmite the Dog

^ I never had a bad stomach and I'm the only person to ever gain weight there, but I thought the meals were shite, especially the curries.

The western food (when you could find it) was 'ok'.

Anonymous Coward

Oh, no! Why did you have to tell that story?

I have to agree with MtD here. I love Indian food, but it's best to get it in a country other than India.

RDN

I was in Delhi for a couple of weeks about 20 years ago. Unforgettable experience - fantastic buildings, interesting people, brilliant colours of the clothes that the women wore - bright yellows, oranges, reds... fascinating.

But I made the big mistake of having a buffet curry on my first day there. This was at a 5 star+ hotel - can't remember the name. I had the most awful stomach cramps and was shitting water for the whole trip. So did the girl I was with. Immodium helped, but didn't stop the cramps. And the chicken curry I had tasted bl00dy awful too - I then knew why they put so much spice in their food: to cover up the fact that it was putrid shite.

RDN

Sorry - but I hope it serves as a warning to anyone who buys stuff from these places to check what you're getting!

friscofrankie

Was on the train takin a leak as we pulled into Bangkok few years back. Now the toilets on the train are basically holes out onto the tracks. T'was early mornin'. Not more 'n a coupla meters away, the folks were all out along the tracks with their makeshift cookers; fryin up the days chicken, bananas and what-not, to sell on the street.

If I can't watch 'em cook it, wrap it, and hand it to me I will not buy it. Will not prepackaged street food, no fuckin way...

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RDN

That reminds of yet another yukky thing I saw about a year ago. I was at Kata with the g/f and she wanted something to eat so we parked near some roadside stalls to see what they were selling.

One old bloke was selling various fruits so we thought we'd watch him for a while. He started cleaning all around his stall with the usual type of broom - a wooden stick with grass tied to it at the bottom. He swept up the dirt and dog-shit and rotten food and made a nice neat pile. "Very good" I though, "Someone who likes to keep the place tidy".

Then he had to put his broom away underneath the food stall. But he couldn't put it in "grass-end first" as it would catch on the frame. So he grabbed hold of the grass-end and shoved it handle-first under the stall. He then carried on cutting up the fruit with his dirt/shit/rotten-food covered hand.

Nice.

Dark

Guys,


“Savoey Seafood” in Pattaya at the intersection of Pattaya Klang and 2nd road across from “Tops” delivered one of the worse meals I’ve had in LOS.
It’s the management’s fault as I’ve had no problem at the “Savoey Seafood” in Bangkok near Suan Lum Night Bazaar.

Our party went on a slow night, there were only 4 other parties in the place.
We had to wait fifteen minutes for our menus and had to ask to have our table set.

We waited a half an hour for our food, I and my friend’s Thai girlfriend got her’s but I had to ask for the rice I ordered.
My friend’s Lobster with butter arrived with no butter and no matter how hard we tried to make the management understand the butter never arrived.

There was absolutely no excuse as I saw four cooks and several cooks’ assistants in the kitchen and the wait staff was idle.

This is truly a tourist trap!


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keda

^...but fine location, they don't need groaning farangs.

stroller

I always make sure I peep into the kitchen when food is being prepared in places like India and the Philippines, which are on a par in this respect, but then I am not easily put off by rats, cockroaches and greasy blackened walls...
The worst upset stomach I had in the Phils was from a salad I had at an international convention (yes, I used to get invited to such events in another life )