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June 17, 2006
Food ... oh glorious food
In the beginning of my travel I made a mental note to be really careful with my food. Make sure it's clean, only eat from respectable restaurants/hotels and just be sensible. These all have been totally destroyed as soon as I got to Bangkok. My first eating journey was in a good and cleanish backpacker restaurant, but it's gone downhill pretty damn quick. On that day I was eating soo much food from street vendors ranging from the sensational banana pancake (still the best food so far), waffles, banana-rice, Vietnam's version of pork bun and all sort of stuff that I probably won't even eat in Indonesia because of the cleanliness level ;)
It's good that none of our group had any stomach problem in Cambodia, although there are some different level of what people are willing to risk, but by the end of the trip I think everyone has finally got rid of the western paranoia of eating street food :) It's so amazing to witness even the most carefull of the group just buy some weird looking food on a stick from an old lady in the side of really dusty street. I think we've done everything against what is recommended by the guidebooks. I'm quite happy that after 2 weeks not even once I ate in a western franchise like KFC or Maccas ... not that they exist in Cambodia hahaha :) But they do exist in Vietnam, but I will absolutely avoid those places.
Stuff the guidebooks' food recommendation, if you see something strange just eat it. Chances are you're going to like it ... and survive!
Posted by vhadiant at June 17, 2006 06:24 PM
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