My God!These days - if I go abroad - practicing good personal hygiene - and only eating food that's been cooked in front of me - along with being a real water snob - helps keep me free from getting sick usually - and I don't go for taking any meds - government recommended or not - if I can avoid them -
- prevention is easier to practice - than having to cope with finding and applying a cure -
Gypsy... I honestly never thought of the above until I read your post. It is a wonder I am still healthy and breathing.
One of my fave things I always did in a new-to-me country was try out the "real" cuisine: Street food.
That's where I had dog-on-a-stick, those long crispy tubes on sticks with fried rice in them, anything in any interesting restaurant than I'd never had before... with a very scant list of no-no's like sea cucumber (big turd).
Not just the East, but all across Britain and Europe. I discovered I fargin love haggis.