Originally Posted by
paintyourjet
Don't eat nothing you can't fry.
Actually I've only ever eaten street food all across Thailand, from Bangkok to Ko Lanta to Chiang Khong to Phayao to Ayuthaya, and I've never once gotten sick. Plenty of wonderful fresh fruit, and yes, plenty of papaya salads. After the first trip to Thailand I ignored the 'don't eat anything that hasn't been cooked thoroughly' rule, and have never had a problem. I have never spent a day in Thailand when I didn't have at least one helping of street food mango-n-sticky-rice. Utter heaven.
India on the other hand...my God. Eating street food there is courting death
Ate street food twice in India, and got violently ill both times. The concept of food hygiene is utterly lost on those folks... (and I'm half-Indian, so I can say that with some authority...)