I always have a bad stomach when I travel to India. How terrible is the food in India?

The biggest problem when traveling to India is health. Many Chinese tourists experience diarrhea in India. Why do Indian tourists always have stomach upset?

For Indians, "food" does not belong to the market economy. Diet is the basis of life. Symbolic of this way of thinking is the rice and wheat distribution system that still exists in India. It is a mechanism for low-income groups to obtain basic quantities of food and commodities at affordable prices. But there are many problems with India's distribution system. In most Indian households, basic food is purchased on credit from nearby shops and paid when wages are paid.

In addition, in rural areas with inadequate roads or electricity, many farmers obtain food or milk from their own or local farmland, not at the market but at below-market prices.

For these reasons, eating at home is the most cost-effective way for most Indians. Except for the rich in big cities, Indians don't have the habit of eating out. They think meals are cooked at home. So if they can't go home for lunch at noon, they take out their unique cylindrical lunch boxes.

This is why the quality (including hygiene) of backpacker street restaurants is very low. In order to cover up the poor quality of food, businesses will choose to add a lot of spices to the cooking.

Now more and more tourists from all over the world come to dine in the restaurant, but the style of the restaurant remains unchanged. Because these tourists can only move. In metropolitan areas where anonymity rates are high, the quality of cheap restaurants is also low.

From China to India, due to different dietary structures, food poisoning sometimes even occurs in high-end restaurants. In summary, avoiding backpackers eating bad food on the street can reduce the risk of food poisoning.