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Audy wrote:
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> I'd ask the doc.
>
> Hep B is pretty serious stuff and there's plenty of that there. Hep A
> could also ruin a trip. Depending on how far out you're going, there
> may be some others you might want to get.
>
> Your state dept. of health can recommend immunizations too.
>
> A bunch of people from my group got sick drinking bottled water that
> was bottled from the tap.
>
> Safer to just drink beer instead of water...
That's all very good advice. On the trip I just finished
over there, we were told the very same things, with the
added cautions to not eat or drink anything you buy "on the
street". The bottled water thing is true. Street vendors
will "repackage" bottled water - fill empty bottles
(presumably that they find discarded) with tap water and
sell it to the unsuspecting. It happened to a couple of our
people. If the bottle isn't sealed or if the seal appears to
be broken, don't buy it. Another caution phrase we were
given was "peel it, boil it, or forget it." Don't eat any
fresh foods from street vendor carts or open air markets
unless you can peel it or boil it.
With that said, though, I did find a most delicious
breakfast food at little street carts or grilles in Tianjin.
It's like a breakfast burrito made with a flaky pie-like
dough with an egg/onion mixture and rolled around some kind
of either bean or plum sauce or daikon or something. I could
never find out what it was, but for 15 cents it was
guuuuuud! And safe to eat.
TM