Tell me you ate all the food... I envy you :D I haven't been back in way too long but alas, real life, work, you know how it goes :( As an aside I've been all over SE Asia and again, never felt unsafe. The most "unsafe" I ever felt was in Jakarta of all places, where a whooooole bunch of people...
Jakarta is the only place I’ve ever gotten food poisoning twice, so that automatically makes it the most dangerous city for me
There's an art to eating streetfood :D Mostly just follow the locals, they know what's good. But any westerner will inevitably have a week of the liquid shits upon arrival, just because the diet is radically different.
Always pack immodium if you are planning on eating street food.
Sage advice!
Oh, I had literally no problem in my year, living in China or any other time in my year living in Indonesia. I got sick from nice restaurants both times. Street food was never the issue. Moscow on the other hand…
Hunh... okay, I have no experience with that because when I got to Indonesia I ate at McD for the first 2 days (rice with your burger? why not!) and then my friends introduced me to the joy that is streetfood and pretty much never looked back :D
Yeah, I probably ate street food at my first opportunity in Asia, and I’ve seldom been let down.
Yeah it's ... never been bad. Sometimes it wasn't like, super great but hey, you can't always win the jackpot :D
... from the countryside who'd apparently never seen a white person before wanted to have their picture taken with said white person. It's... awkward AF I can tell you. Also kind of funny. And a little creepy.
Hah, I was just in Jakarta and that seems to have died down somewhat over the years
This would've been... pff... like 2008 maybe? Dunno, it was over at Monas, was meeting a friend to go for an epic soto ayam/bintang run in Jl. Jaksa and I guess they were from way out in the boonies :D Didn't speak any Indonesian back then so that made it a little weird...