This is actually quite true. Alot of "local" restaurants in Asia which advertise to tourists are really the same quality as many street food carts, just with a jacked up price. I can say that it happens alot here in Singapore, like when the 70¢ satay is worse quality than the 2$ satay, or when the food court's 3$ chicken rice is both better in quality and more generous in portion than the 15$ fancy restaurant.
Hee! I know of at least one place like that in New England--there's a stand with award-winning pulled pork, and a restaurant beside it--which gets its pulled pork from the stand. During winter, the folks from the stand take shelter in the restaurant.
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But as a fellow Southeast Asian, I can clearly confirm that street food is WAY better than restaurant food. (and a lot cheaper too)
This is actually quite true. Alot of "local" restaurants in Asia which advertise to tourists are really the same quality as many street food carts, just with a jacked up price. I can say that it happens alot here in Singapore, like when the 70¢ satay is worse quality than the 2$ satay, or when the food court's 3$ chicken rice is both better in quality and more generous in portion than the 15$ fancy restaurant.
ReplyDeleteHee! I know of at least one place like that in New England--there's a stand with award-winning pulled pork, and a restaurant beside it--which gets its pulled pork from the stand. During winter, the folks from the stand take shelter in the restaurant.
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