Andrea Nguyen: Safe Eating While in Vietnam
Andrea Nguyen has published a great post about safe eating while in Vietnam. I followed the same sort of safe eating philosophy while I was there for three weeks this year, and was sick only for a couple of hours about a week in. And I wouldn't do anything differently next time -- I enjoyed the freedom that I had with pretty much eating anything once I'd set my own personal rules about eating fresh food, hot food, drinking lots of bottled water, and not freaking out too much after that.
I would add to this post by saying that I went into my doctor and told him I was going, and that I was going to eat everything, and that I needed meds in case anything happened. He gave me Cipro, which I never took, and a couple other meds for my travel bag.
I had ice in my drinks a little more often than it sounds like Andrea did, but I had a theory that gin killed any bugs that were in my ice (grin).
This is all such great advice. My boyfriend and I were just talking about taking a trip to Vietnam a few days ago. No real plans yet, but something I would like to save for.
Posted by: Mary | November 27, 2007 at 10:46 AM
This is all such great advice. My boyfriend and I were just talking about taking a trip to Vietnam a few days ago. No real plans yet, but something I would like to save for.
Posted by: Mary | November 27, 2007 at 10:48 AM
Gin - so wonderful.
I wish I had read this post before I went...I got so sick...and yet, it was SO worth it (well, not entirely. LOL)
Posted by: Rachael | November 28, 2007 at 07:57 AM
I did the same thing when I went to Bangkok. Just decided to try anything. The trick was just finding street stalls where lots of other people were queueing. Then we knew that the food would be fresh.
Posted by: Paula from Only Cookware | December 21, 2007 at 08:27 PM