Beware the Shits !

[CO-CO]

The Department of Disease Control has issued a list of nine Thai dishes that could potentially cause diarrhea during the summer.

According to the Department, the number of diarrhea patients between Jan. 1 to Mar. 10 totaled 191,515. One patient reportedly died from complications resulting from the condition. The Department warned restaurants across Thailand to pay more attention to hygiene in the kitchen and warned diners to wash their hands before each meal.

Below is the list of Thai foods that easily go bad in the hot weather, subsequently posing a risk to the health of diners.

1. Larb/Koi or spicy Isaan meat salad: This dish is a combination of ground meat seasoned with fish sauce, limejuice, chili and herbs. Both dishes are similar except that Koi uses raw meat.

2. Yum Goong Dten or “spicy shrimp salad”: This dish’s Thai name literally means “Dancing Shrimp Salad,” suggesting that live shrimp are main ingredient to the dish.

3. Yum Hoy Krang or “spicy cockle salad”: Diners need to make sure that cockles are given a good rinse before eating them.

4. Fried rice topped with crabmeat

5. All coconut milk recipes: Phanaeng curry, Massaman curry, chicken green curry, coconut custard, Bualoy, Saku Biak, you name it.

6. Kanom Jeen or “fermented Thai rice noodle”: Since Kanom Jeen is made from rice that has been fermented for three days, it can rot quickly.

7. Khao Man Gai or “chicken rice”

8. Som Tam or “spicy green papaya salad”

9. Green salad

The Department also warns diners of ice and suggests them not to eat food that has been left out overnight.

[candy]

Phew!!
If these were popular, everyday dishes, there could have been a problem.

[CO-CO]

Phew!!
If these were popular, everyday dishes, there could have been a problem.

Starman could be on a 'liquids only" diet


(Not the same one as Nookie though....)

[smoooth2]

Had to laugh at the Dept's recommendation that "diners wash their hands before each meal"

My hands have been the cleanest thing in some of the cafes I've visited.

The whole street-footpath cafe scene here is one of the most fantastic experiences I've enjoyed in Thailand, followed closely by trying to survive the roads.

When I first came to Thailand, I thought I would be "THE MAN" and eat everything my girlfriend ate. Phwrrrr .... big mistake !!  I hardly saw daylight for the first 10 days.

First two phrases I ever learned in Thai language were "where's the toilet" and "no spice" !!

I can understand the Dept's warnings though. Must be a tricky thing for many vendors to keep their food fresh in this heat.

[dundeemk6]

smoooth2 : you get used to anything after a while ... where I live they say " man hur, man changang" = in thai : " mai pit, mai aroi" ... and it keeps you on afterburner !!!!