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Eden7 -

Beef,potato,and a can of beer are probably what you need right now.



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Rincewind -

Sounds like food poisoning to me too. (though I'm not a doctor either). Allot of people get
stomach upsets when they first come to china. Back home your resistant to most of the local bugs.
When you come here your body get hit by new bacteria and you get sick very easily.

Did you use tap water to brush your teeth? That's one that is easy to forget. Avoid cold foods
like salad and cold noodles noodles. Don't take ice in your drinks. Take loads of water with some
salt an sugar in it. As mentioned above, yogurt and milk are good (though the Chinese doctors will
tell you to avoid them, westerners are used to milks and it's actually good for settling us.)

If you're still sick today, go to the hospital. They'll give you a jag that will cut down on the
nausea and let you eat properly. They did that for me when I eat some dodgy squid last year.










optical -

Thanks for all the replies and insights. I took your advice here and have been forcing myself to
drink a lot of water (not ridiculous amounts, but a lot more than I'm used to drinking back in my
old hometown of Seattle) and focus on dry foods. And sure enough, it one day just suddenly
stopped. It was probably a combination of lack of water, and just needing to get used to the food
here, and possibly something I ate on the airplane but honestly who knows.

I have read a lot about avoiding food stalls and while sometimes the smell is disturbingly
tempting I have made myself avoid them just for precautionary sake.

Now if somebody could tell me what a pink light in a "barber shop" means then I'll be totally set.










Jekai -



Quote:

I have a question regarding this bacteria. Does this "Chinese" bacteria, once you get it inside
your stomach, stays there forever or does it go out when you're back in your home country?

I'm not a doctor (like everyone else!) but I think there's some truth to this. When I arrived in
Beijing for the first time last year, I was getting cramps and all the fun stuff for a week or
two. I've been back in Beijing the last four days and I feel perfectly fine. Though maybe the
cramps will stary back later after some resturant visits? Eep, I hope not.

I would bet money on airline food being part of the problem, too. EVERY time I eat a meal on a
flight, I don't even want to look at food for the better part of the day.

Also, as for the tap water, I noticed the water in my hotel was crystal clear, so I did some
searching, and aparrently as of a few months ago, they decided that Beijing tap water is safe to
drink. That's no gaurantee that the pipes the water passes through will keep it clean, but if it
seems clean, it just might be.










heifeng -

So I was debating where to put this post b/c its kinda nasty, but I think it is worth sharing to
prevent forum members the same problem and I know that in reflection this has happened to me more
than once...and now I know what was going on...

Basically prior to Chinese NY when everything was closed, I stocked on the remnants of food left
at wumei. Previously I had discovered they have some really big, yummy mantou that are white with
purple speckles (this is important later on).

Anyway, during one of the those chu-something days I think I just chowed down on some mantou for
dinner and breakfast, maybe a bowl of fangbianmian too. The next day I slowly began to feel quite
ill, but not the standard flu or food poisening ill feeling..it just slowly crept up. Anyway,
after about 1-2 days of just not feeling quite 'right'. By day 3 the vomiting began and lasted
until absolutely nothing was left...so I thought...and then I started to have massive chest pain
like someone was punching me. Then, several fish-ball sized chunks were literally launched. I took
note of this b/c usually vomit is at least partially digested (at least everything else was).
Anyway I did take a look at this huge chunks and just couldn't figure out what had caused it until
I noticed those purple speckles. Anyway, I eventually realized that this was all from the mantou
and my failure to 1. eat slowly and chew carefully (general bad habit) and 2. to actually eat the
mantou with something else like veggies I suppose...bite of mantou...bite of 'cai'...not just lets
just eat a mantou or two and call it quits for dinner, and 3, I dunno if drinking water and actual
mantou-expansion had anything to do with this, but maybe the fangbianmian soup didn't help
matters. Anyway, I felt better right away, but after realizing what happend I reflected back on
other occasions when I would just feel ill in China, which took me back exactly to when I use to
eat a ton of mantou at a certain office. Anyway, I have come to the conclusion, that mantou are
dense lil' badboys of the bread kingdom, so don't just chow down on them...eat them very slowly
and carefully.

Anyway, hope this over share saves someone else from mantou-induced discomfort since it doesn't
seem like a likely culprit, but apparently can still cause problems.










anonymoose -

So let me get this straight, you saw the same piece of mantou again 3 days after eating it?



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heifeng -

well, to be exact the timeline and more thrilling details were like this:

day 1. mantou or 2 for dinner.
day 2. mantou and fangbian mian for lunch. few hrs later feeling a bit odd. Oh well, Dumplings for
dinner....
day 3. Not feeling great. oh well, hot pot for dinner. Ignore the pain and attempt to eat.
day 4. now I'm really feeling like crap...ughhhhhh...vomitting for 7 hours and then when
absolutely nothing was left and dry heaving and then the huge mantou chunks came up and then
everything was fine (just like a cat coughing up a fur ball!!).
day 5-forever onward. Chinese friends just laugh at me for just eating several mantou with
virtually nothing else for a meal and tell me not to do that again....and continue to chuckle
However, I will now be staying away from mantou.










roddy -



Quote:

day 5-forever onward. Chinese friends just laugh at me for just eating several mantou with
virtually nothing else for a meal and tell me not to do that again....and continue to chuckle

Now Chinese friends + the Internet. . .










heifeng -

yeah, I know. Consider it a lesson learned though!










gougou -

Actually the best breakfast I ever had was plain mantous with a handful of peanuts. Then again,
that was during a rainstorm in a 土楼 in Fujian province, so I had plenty of time to chew!












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