So far so good in terms of my street food adventures in Vietnam... until yesterday I was taken down by a sweet potato. I quarantined myself to my room, knowing that if I let myself out, I would probably go buy another sweet potato, because I'm dumb like that, and it was delicious. So I've decided to live by a new rule: not all shady street food is created equal. Street food that gets multiple points on the shady scale is not OK. 1-2 points, just fine.
Here's my shady food point system:
-One point if it's cooked on a little grill on the curb (only a few inches from the ground)
-One point if the person who's cooking it is squatting on the ground
-One pont if you eat it squatting on the ground
-One point if there's raw veggies (...so all Pho)
-One point if there's unidentifiable meats or other ingredients
-One point if the food originally came from the ground and is not peeled (ie potatoes, but if you peel it, then it doesn't get a point)
-One point if the vendor originally tells you they don't have something, but the a few moments later, they tell you they do
-One point if the vendor is unphased if the food drops on the ground
So according to this scale, my sweet potato has 4, potentially 5 points. If only I had this reference yesterday.
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