I have been jettisoning a weird shade of green for 24 hours. Although some skaters featured on this blog don't agree, street food is actually the safest food in Taipei. I routinely eat at outdoor foodcarts alongside families of rats and armies of cockroaches. RMJ doesn't like those spots, because he thinks that the rats and cockroaches walk all over the stalls at night. This is true. They also walk all over the stalls in the day. However, in five years of eating at nasty spots next to semi open sewers (the stalls always just dump their refuse into the sewer, where it stagnates next to their stall), I have never once had the dreaded laduzi from eating at any of those places. IS sides with RMJ on this topic, but he is also wrong. In the history of Taiwan, I don't think anyone has ever gotten sick from roadside or nightmarket food, except in that one nightmarket run by Chinese gangsters that only Chinese tourists go to. In that place, they got caught using recycled cooking oil (oil recovered from the aforementioned open sewers). But I only went there a few times, and recycling is good for the environment, right? Anyway, the only times I've the crippling, doubled over, febrile, don't-bother- wiping-anymore-just-take-another-shower-and-crawl-back-across-the-floor-to-bed-again kind of food poisoning has been either from convenience store vegetables, has been from either convenience story food or western chains. Once, was from a bowl of left over rice that I didn't realize had grown a layer of white mold on it, but that was at home. Oh. Time to go back to the lab.
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