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robertoaribas says

I spent roughly $2000 for two weeks in Jamaica over christmas break, but then again that was all at a nice resort...

I spent nearly 4K for ten days in Havana and Cienfuegos. (There were shit flies on all the food there, too, Mark D. Luckily, I have a prewar intestinal design, with a vanadium alloy stomach lining.)

Mark D says

what did this cheap azz expect from eating food openly displayed on the sides of the road, visited by flies that have been feeding on big piles of pig manure nearby?

typical cheap ass American tourists in SouthEast Asia. spending like $200 bucks for the whole trip and expecting great experiences of that of Paris or Hawaii. why don't you write a fucking blog to cry about it too you cheap asshole!

as a matter of fact, even the natives stopped eating streets food 10 years ago. they are mostly for cheap Western tourists now! :)

I was young, in my 20s, and adventurous at that time. Now, I know better and wouldn't go to just any street food vendor.

The worst part is the doctor said the worms got into my kidney, and the fever got so hot, I went unconscious for a full 24 hours at one point. That may have been the closest I've come to death (except for a plane ride out of Las Vegas maybe).

Mark D says

what did this cheap azz expect from eating food openly displayed on the sides of the road, visited by flies that have been feeding on big piles of pig manure nearby?

typical cheap ass American tourists in SouthEast Asia. spending like $200 bucks for the whole trip and expecting great experiences of that of Paris or Hawaii. why don't you write a fucking blog to cry about it too you cheap asshole!

as a matter of fact, even the natives stopped eating streets food 10 years ago. they are mostly for cheap Western tourists now! :)

If you weren't joking, that's a shame. Some of the street food in Asia is spectacular. And that is not a joke. And to say that locals don't eat it is even more ridiculous.

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich says

Those pots look like they're filled with monkey shit and lemur barph, the usual stuff the locals feed expats and tourists in SE Asia.

Those would be considered luxuries during cannibal anarchy, right?