I love your way of traveling... eating what's really there is often important to me, but getting the gut microbes to match up in just one trip was a little too much for me.
Glad to hear you like reading my trip reports! I'm going to try and post a few photos from the huge backlog I have here so you may be seeing some more soon.
A tip which I picked up somewhere: one thing that helps the intestinal flora adapt is eating local yogurt with active cultures. I can't remember having any problems on my last trip to China, and it may have had something to do with my drinking the local yogurt in Beijing as soon as I could.
(I actually love the yogurt in North China, so I was looking forward to it as a treat. It comes in these cute little earthenware jars that you pay a deposit on but you can just keep if you want. I kept one as a souvenir to bring home.)
Anyway, it seems to help. I like yogurt anyway, so it's no hardship. The hard part is figuring out where to get the old-fashioned kind with active cultures!
I'll have to visit New York City someday... I keep saying that, and I even have friends who live a train ride away. Thanks!!!
Drop me a note before you do and I'll try and meet up with you folks. My parents are a train ride away so I might be able to time a visit to match up. There is, obviously, lots of great food to share in New York. :)
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Glad to hear you like reading my trip reports! I'm going to try and post a few photos from the huge backlog I have here so you may be seeing some more soon.
A tip which I picked up somewhere: one thing that helps the intestinal flora adapt is eating local yogurt with active cultures. I can't remember having any problems on my last trip to China, and it may have had something to do with my drinking the local yogurt in Beijing as soon as I could.
(I actually love the yogurt in North China, so I was looking forward to it as a treat. It comes in these cute little earthenware jars that you pay a deposit on but you can just keep if you want. I kept one as a souvenir to bring home.)
Anyway, it seems to help. I like yogurt anyway, so it's no hardship. The hard part is figuring out where to get the old-fashioned kind with active cultures!
I'll have to visit New York City someday... I keep saying that, and I even have friends who live a train ride away. Thanks!!!
Drop me a note before you do and I'll try and meet up with you folks. My parents are a train ride away so I might be able to time a visit to match up. There is, obviously, lots of great food to share in New York. :)