I ate street food, while sitting on rickety plastic chairs on small metal tables, covered in noise and moped fumes in Penang, Bangkok and Ha Noi among other pla

I ate street food, while sitting on rickety plastic chairs on small metal tables, covered in noise and moped fumes in Penang, Bangkok and Ha Noi among other places. I ate a lot of it and never, ever got sick. Here's my golden rule from which I never deviate: Make sure that you see how they cook the food on premises It needs to be well visited, preferably by locals As I said I never got sick (or even felt slight discomfort) and I had a number of memorable meals under such conditions. Would a western health inspector tolerate the setup? Hell; no! But, so what? Sure, you can stick to the hotel restaurant of The Intercontinental in Bangkok, but you'll be hardly any safer than eating on a wobbly table in some small soi in the area. But man, will you be missing out...