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JW_Halverson:
We westerners are often scared outa our boots about street vendor food in third world countries.  OMG! NO refrigeration! NO hot water or steam cleaners for utensils! FLIES!

Fact is, the situation requires that the vendor buy fresh daily, chose recipes that cook hot and fast, cook it on the spot, and have high turnover.  Exactly the situation you need to prevent food poisoning!

I had a WWII vet for a high school history teacher that had been everywhere in the world back in the 1950's and claimed the best policy was to only eat street food, never ask what it was, and trust your nose.  He was Andrew Zimmern before Andrew was born!

Grasshopper Mouse:
Some of the best food I've had has been from street or roadside vendors in Baja California. Almeja ceviche and goat meat burritos are some of the best, even if your companions are convinced you're going to die.
Yan Can Cook was a great one. I also liked Rick Bayliss and, of course, Julia Child. I've rarely had cable or satellite tv so PBS has been my cooking show resource. Now I don't get any tv reception so the internet suffices. There are some great cooking blogs out there like Maangchi, and Just Bento.

Guy

Dharma:
My wife and I made a run to a Russian grocery store so I could stock up on some ancestral delicacies. There on the meat counter, sitting right out in the---gasp!---open air were these hunter sausages. Not refrigerated and right where anyone could touch them. Just piled there like logs. I bought a pound of them, of course. Had one with kislaya kapusta for lunch. They make the kapusta right there. Theirs always tastes better than mine. Got a couple pounds of tvorog, too, and it came out of this big plastic bucket. Turned my wife on to Russian food and tonight is Siberian pelmeni and kapusta for dinner.

You can always tell good smoked sausages because they ain't refrigerated.

Zuma:
lol
If you drink the local hooch, you will eat anything
the pretty local girl sets before you. Umm, like 100 year old
water buffalo pounded to a pulp, fish eye soup with bug laced bread.
Just spit the larva in your beer into the corner.
Unless someone is relieving them selves there.
Zuma

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