You have to use extreme caution when buying raw meat in the local open air markets.
The weather has been extremely hot and the meat vendors will leave the raw meat out on the table for hours.
This can induce all kinds of harmful bacteria.
If you are new to rural Isaan and your stomach is not used to the local meat here, refrain from buying meat here.
It would be much safer to buy meat at Lotus’s.
Locals are use to the high bacteria levels so it does not seem to bother them, however even the locals end up with food poisoning from time to time.
Some meat vendors will have tons of flies on the meat on their tables and you know this is not hygienic.
It is very easy to get food poisoning if you stomach is not use to the high bacteria levels.