STREET FOOD

Street food are loved by many people in many countries. Although not all of the street food is unhealthy, but most of it are not good for the body. Many people know about this information, but they still often to eat that food. They must have some reason why they keep going to buy and eat the street food from the street vendor.

Street food has really tasty taste. The tastiness of that food can gain many customers who love tasty food. The customer will addict to that taste and will come again in the future. The sources of that tasty taste usually from the amount of monosodium glutamate. Monosodium glutamate is a safe material, but if some people consume it too much they will feel the side effects like headache, sweating, chest pain, et cetera.

The interesting dress of the food can be the reason why people love to eat the street food. When the food has beautiful dressing, it is like automatically people will love to eat it. Nowadays, youngsters love to take a photo of the food before they eat and post it on their Facebook, Instagram, or other social media. According to the statement of the researcher from Brigham Young University, this habit is not good because it will decrease or even break the appetite of the people who look at it.

Everyone love street food because it is inexpensive. Inexpensive is the most common answer why people choose to like street food. Everyone who want to safe their money will always buy inexpensive things. This is good habit, but some of inexpensive food will cost people more. The inexpensive food can content bad ingredients quality, for example cheap hot sauce product for bakso (Indonesian meat ball) topping or mie ayam (Indonesian chicken noodle) topping. Some of cheap hot sauce product from Indonesia contain rotten papayas, chilis, tomatoes, and lot amount of chemical. This ingredient will break the kidney function. Not all of the inexpensive food contains bad ingredient quality. Some of inexpensive food has good ingredient quality because usually the ingredient has low price or it is home made. So, people who love inexpensive food must be careful to pick their food.

Some people who say that street food will taste better when they eat it outside (not to bring the food back to home). They say that they have a good time eat the food outside because the can feel the breeze of the wind, or feel the atmosphere of the street if the place is comfortable. Some street food vendor provides some chair for their customer, but not all street vendor provide chair for because ‘eat and go’ is the slogan of the street food vendor. So, some people who want to enjoy their food will search a place for them to sit or a place to stand comfortably. Usually when people got a good taste of food and nice place to sit, they will stay longer to enjoy the moment.

There are many reason why people love to buy the street food. It is tasty, cheap, interesting, although some of that is not healthy. Street food may unhealthy and can break the body because of the bad ingredient quality, but if people act wisely like limit their consumption of unhealthy street food, they may not break their body.