How to choose safe and clean food from street food vendor?

Do you know what is roadside hawker? Usually they are street food vendor, but sometimes they also sell clothes and tools. Sometimes they disturb the traffic and cause traffic jam. But they are very common in some Asians countries, like Indonesia, India, and others. What we love about them, they sell some good food and in some areas they are like traditional hawkers. It really shows the culture side of the country. Maybe they sell good food, but you must be careful with the health issue. Here I am gonna give you some tips to choose the street food vendor.

1. Buy food from clean street food vendor. Because the environment where food is made affecting food hygiene.
2. Don't buy it, if it don't have container and not placed on the table. 
3. Make sure the canteen, or any place where the hawkers is, are clean. Don't buy food near the garbage/ trash can.
4. Buy food from healthy hawkers. We don't want to get sick right?
5. Make sure the hawkers hold the food with tools or containers. It's not hygiene when the hawkers hold the food with their bare hands.
6. Choose cooked food. Make sure it cooked perfectly, not raw.
7. Buy food which is displayed, stored, and placed good and take notice if it's hygiene or not.
8. If we buy food with broth, make sure the broth placed separately.
9. The food consumption must be right.
10. Buy food which is safe from biological harm, chemicals, also secure from hair, glass shard, and also pebbles and dust.

Street food vendors in Jakarta. (source: Wikipedia)

Make sure you buy food from clean vendors. If you are not so sure, just buy it from shop/store. Thank you for reading this article  ^^

(source: Radar Bogor Newspaper, Mei 31th, 2014)