A recent tweet questioning why anyone would go to a food court to eat oysters when they could pay a bit more and get better quality went viral, prompting a wider conversation about price and food safety, and whether one really links up to the other. We discuss this, and ask: how do we decide what's safe to eat, especially in an open-air, food court or street food setting?

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Produced by: Evening Edition

Presented by: Sharmilla Ganesan, Lee Chwi Lynn

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Categories:  food,  managing disease

Tags:  Oysters,  food safety,  price,  food court,  street food,