Delhi Travel Forum

Hi everyone
I am just wondering is there anyone who can help me about what kind of food and drink is safe in India (New Delhi) please! Because I heard tab water and ice and cold foods are contained with some bacteria’s for dire and stomach problem. Is that true?
Thanks

Stick with bottled or boiled water. Good restaurants are OK, but use botled water and ensure salad is washed in filtered water.


SAM

To be on the safe side do not eat salad or drink tap water. I was there in October and because of the precautions I took I never got sick.

I am interested in this topic and am wondering if it is safe to eat salad anywhere, we will be in goa for 5 weeks and I love salad, especially in warm weather.

I am interested in this topic and am wondering if it is safe to eat salad anywhere, we will be in goa for 5 weeks and I love salad, especially in warm weather.

I just came back from Delhi 10 days ago. Although some of the street vendors food looks tempting, you are best to avoid it.

My advice would be to eat in decent restaurants or hotels. To be honest they are not expensive, were good quality and we were fine in Delhi.

Although some restaurants will wash the salads, you can bet your life they are not washing it in bottled water. I would avoid it. A place I stayed in Rajasthan made a big thing about washing salad etc, but I saw chefs (who certainly weren't washing their hands) with their hands dipped actually into the food they were serving out.

Just eat in decent restaurants and only eat cooked stuff. You will be fine like that even if your body starts craving fruit and salad. Don't worry, it will be fantastic! Enjoy yourself.

Peter

pete and the other people above are right. stick to good restaurants and drink bottled water/drinks only. i spent 6 weeks in new delhi in 2004 and i was fine. although i must admit it was hard not to eat some things from small vendors. india is not a place to be with gastro etc
if you really need to snack, then hit on mc donalds lol :-)
enjoy

pete and others.........

you do not need to wash salad in bottled water.I have been in Goa many tyimes and always have salad, the shacks where we eat washh in filtered water. most restaurants and hotels will have a water purifier, for that matter many houses and Malls have water purifier. this is OK to use 0 provided of course it is maintained. I dintthink any one washes in bottled water!

Generally , all good restaurants should be ok. In resorts where i go there are repeat customers and restaurants cant afford any bad publicity........

SAM

Sam - sorry, I probably didn't explain myself very well. I wasn't suggesting the food should be washed in bottled water, that would be stupid. My point was if even you have very hygienic standards in some areas of the kitchen and then one part of the process is very un-hygienic then there is a potential problem.