I’ve been laid low the past couple of days by a nasty little stomach bug. I assume it was something I ate, but what? It could have been just about anything. The grilled street pork. The ice in my iced coffee. The ice in my beer. Everyone’s a suspect–it’s like Murder on the Orient Express. Still, this is the first of such troubles I’ve had in I don’t how long–certainly since I’ve been in Vietnam, which, as I realized the other day, has been more than four months now. In any case, it’s impossible and kind of pointless to live here and not eat the street food and drink the street cafe sua da, and seriously, most Vietnamese food is incredibly fresh, although just typing the words “eat” and “food” makes me want to go lie back down.
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October 31, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Head for the Border
They don’t have Taco Bell in Old Saigon, do they?
November 1, 2007 at 5:39 am
Thomas
HA. Actually, I kind of wish. For those not lucky enough to be privy to my exciting history of gastrointestinal misadventures, a bad taco bell experience once sent me to the hospital. (Did I recently read that they’re giving away free tacos to everyone in America? Is Bush behind this?)
Here in Vietnam, KFC is the only American fast food chain with any presence. I have to wonder whether this will be the case for too much longer. The first McDonald’s here would probably spark a riot of people rushing the doors. There’s an Asian burger chain called Lotteria, but I haven’t tried it.
November 2, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Alana
I wish more burger chains here ended with the same sound as diarrhea.
(Unless it’s not pronounced lott-er-EE-ah, but lott-AIR-ee-ah, in which case my wish is still the same, though.)
–Ad Wizard
November 2, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Alana
P.S. Sorry about your guts, though. Food poisoning is unique torture.
November 4, 2007 at 11:40 am
Thomas
So I was trying to think of a burger chain in the U.S. that sounded like “diarrhea” and the first thing that popped into my head was “Danceteria,” which of course is not a fast food place but an 80s club where young Madonna and young Michael Musto and John Sex and LL Cool J and people like that hung out–all of whom, coincidentally, have had the runs at one time or another.
Sincerely,
Runs-DMC
November 4, 2007 at 11:41 am
Thomas
PS Image above from this awesome collection of Danceteria flyers.