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My interest is
in food. Unfortunately I had three diarheas in those three weeks in
China. Good thing is I did not gain any weight.

Was it really that bad? did you eat in the street side food stalls? i'm
interested in Chinese food as well but i've not heard anyone suffer as bad
as you except those that went outside the cities & travelled in the country.
There i can understand if you caught a stomach bug & had diarrhoea. Just
curious... what did you think of Beijing & Shanghainese food compared to the
ones you get outside China like in the States &/or the UK, typically
Cantonese style foods.

DC.