Reply To: Sri Lanka and the Maldives

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geekay wrote:

Could someone who has visited Sri Lanka give me a quick steer on food? As I understand it, there are few issues with food hygiene, and that generally speaking one can eat salads and fruit etc. Obviously sensible precautions need to be taken when visiting small cafes or roadside stalls, as would be the case in many countries. Any guidance much appreciated.

These things are all about risk – you could spend two weeks sampling street food happy go lucky and avoid infections, or you could get one from a single meal where somebody was careless with chicken.

My personal choice is to avoid water, ice, salads or unpeeled fruit unless at a 5* hotel. There’s so much great food to eat without it. I’d also suggest only piping hot food whether that’s in a fancy restaurant or a street vendor.

I don’t think I even saw a single salad in Sri Lanka. I did see a lot of outstanding food though and I ate everything I saw.

My wife tells me I have a cast iron stomach and I’ve only got ill twice travelling the world: once eating badly reheated pizza at an Indian airport and once doing I don’t know what in Kenya. The Indian pizza was solved with some 20 quids worth of tablets from a doctor, the Kenyan whatever with a day in hospital on IV antibiotics.