Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The betel leaves are also washed in water - I would avoid anything uncooked off the streets if you have a tender stomach. I know of visitors who even brush their teeth in bottled water - looks like living in the west makes you incapable of anything but the most coddled travel, and you miss a lot. BTW, most of the water you drink in hotels, etc is filtered and irradiated, not boiled - so stick with bottled if you have a doubt. I drink water and eat food anywhere - by now I have all the antibodies required to survive in the tropics (or anywhere else for that matter)! Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 8:40 AM, leo wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote: > I was visiting a little village to shoot some fabric silk screening > operation and they asked me if I wanted to visit their ice factory > that they were quite proud of. ?We went and the saw that the villagers > were washing their village cows in the water that was in the intake > pool for the ice making plant. ?This even bothered my hosts from New > Delhi! > > And yes, Lawrence, about that ice incident. ?We were told, "don't > worry, freezing kills everything". ?I kinda laughed to my self. > Fortunately we traveled with a worse case selection of meds, ?but it > still took my producer 3 days to get back to normal. > > ?I hear that it is quite safe to consume street ice in Mexico City as > it all comes from a regulated ice plant. > > Jayanand, ?how safe would you consider street betel? > > > Leo Wesson > Photographer/Videographer > 817.733.9157 > www.leowesson.com > > > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj > <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: >> Quite possible. Avoid food if it is not cooked as well, like salads. >> On the other hand, eating anything on the streets is quite safe, as >> long as it is cooked in front of you. >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at >> gmail.com> wrote: >>> Leo writes that his producer got deathly ill from drinking beer cooled >>> with >>> ice in India. So did my wife. Many Indians have the belief that freezing >>> kills all the germs and little swimming things in the water. Not so. In >>> rural India and Mexico drink only beverages made with boiled water or >>> carbonated drinks uncooled with local ice. >>> Larry Z >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >