Do you buy foods from stalls/carts?  

I know the street carts are a lot different in Asia but nothing beats the street carts in New York. You got your famous dirty dogs, gyros, kebobs, canidied nuts ect.. Even though you will feel it the next day it is sooo worth it. Any New Yorkers out there?

I also used to enjoy buying street foods (foods that can be bought from food carts/stalls in the streets), but one time I got sick because of it (typhoid). So right now I'm refraining from buying street foods, even though they look so yummy and delicious - they are!

i guess, it depend on people how to view clean foods to dirty foods. but in our office, we usually buy food that they sell in cart rather than those available in foodcourt. coz its a lot cheaper there. it is almost half the price that the one they sell inside the mall but still taste the same or even better.. i like to buy taho from manong rather the cold taho they sell inside the building. i also like fishballs, chicken balls and kwek kwek or quail eggs. theyre very delicious and cheaper too!

In our old neighborhood, there was this guy who owned a hotdog/ hot dog stand in front of the supermarket. My dad would go and buy like 20 hot dogs from him. We never knew what to do with all of them. The guy sold them for only 50 cents each, and my dad can never pass up a bargain. He's just like me. One time my mom finally said to him, "calm down, they're just hot dogs" ha ha

Hi gicolet good day to you mylotter, well honestly speaking i always buy some foods from stalls/carts because the food that they were selling is very affodable to all people especially those poor like me. I think not all stalls/carts are dirty food because i know some of stalls/carts that are clean and i always go to buy food from that stalls/carts. In my own i think, most of the people know that some of the foods that were selling in streets are dirty, but that is only fine for them because of due to crisis and the financial needs nowadays, they want to eat any kinds of food just to survive.

We all know that most of the Filipino are food lover and they really want to eat any kinds of food that is new to there eye, so i can say that i am also same with them, because i am a Filipino. Imagine why most the Filipino loves to eat street foods? Like fishball, eggball, squidball, kalamares, kikyam, nugget, hotdog, and etc, because we are Filipino because even though it is bad to our health we still love it for the reason it is very affordabld, so i can say yot can not blame them with that and you have nothing to do with them because they have there own choice in life.

I have a simple advice to you, why don't you try to eat some street foods in street, i am sure you will also love it and by the way, as i remember my teacher told me that sometimes people need bad bacteria in the body in order to balance the health ecosystem of the body. So if i were you, just try and taste it,and give trust to those seller of foods from the stalls and carts. Well that's all my response to your forum topic discussion entitled "do you buy foods from stalls/ carts?". I am hoping that i give a very interesting response to your beautiful discussion. Happy posting and happy earning. . . Good luck to our career here in this site mylot. Thank you and Mabuhay!
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Hello gicolet!

Yes, here in the Philippines there are so many stalls/cart selling in the street with different kinds of food.. Well, I think that's only the perspective of most people here in the Philippines that foods selling in the street are dirty because of the dust and the smoke coming from the vehicle. People were thinking that the vendors doesn't really care about the sense of cleanliness since they were selling it in the street, the dust and other kinds of germs will go to the food that they were selling..

When I was a kid, I love buying some food in the street especially in front of our school like Tempura and fish ball.. Sometimes even Ice Candy, or Juice.. But my father always told me of not buying foods in the street because its dirty.. Well, I seldom buy food in the street like toron, mango, tempura, squid ball, etc. but I chose the places and stalls where I'll buy food because I believe that here in Manila particularly most vendor doesn't value cleanliness in their foods.. The just keep on selling foods for the sake of earning money.. Most of the time, I bought those things in the mall because its more safe than in the street but if I'm in our Province I can just buy food in the street because vendors in the provinces are more honest than here in the City..

lol...as they said people in Philippines have a very strong stomach. They get immune with street foods. Anyway kidding aside not all street foods are dirty. Your brother is just preventive which is quite alright. Now you can tell yourself when the street food is dirty or not, you can observe if how they prepare it or you can tell yourself if your stomach is sensitive. Personally i love street foods and whenever i go out outside, me and my friends love to eat whenever we see one but for me i always choose the stalls that i believe and see that is clean and that's where i bought. I really don't know but sometimes my taste buds really look for that certain taste that i can only find on street foods. Another thing is that most of the street foods are also available in malls now, the only difference is in malls it is much higher cost. Well i can see that you love to try turon, you can make it yourself at home. It is very easy to make. One thing i love to try is this street food on a stick but i don't know the name, its a street food in korea that i saw in tv. I would love also to try the street foods in Japan. It looks delicious

Yeah, most of the street foods aren't well, that clean. But you should consider the stall's immediate surroundings, if it's not that unhygienic, you probably should go ahead and give it a try.

I still buy foods in stalls/carts. I love street foods

I take a look first before buying, if it looks clean, I will buy some food on that vendor.

Gosh!dirt is everywhere, you cannot even guarantee clean foods in the classy restaurant, our body is loaded with bad bacteria that is a fact this may aggravate if we become careless with our lifestyle. So street foods are not the only dirty foods we are eating everyday. Foods in the "clean" restaurants and hotels are loaded with genetically motivated organisms which are carcinogen (cancerous cells).

I always eat foods in the street like banana toron and quick quick but my annual health check up says I am in an excellent health condition, well, because I always take antioxidants and never drink alcoholic beverages, coffee and softdrinks. I never eat meat and fatty foods too.