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Travelling abroad with family or alone requires a bit of adjustment. You are likely in a new place with differing rules, culture, religion, along with cuisine you are not used to. But it isn’t just about travelling with family alone, you can have similar experiences if you opt for Bleisure travel. Please read all information here to know more about it. You will be surprised to know that more than one in three business travellers like to add a leisure component to at least one of their business trips.
Thankfully, there are always fast-food restaurants in all major cities these days, and you can eat familiar foods several miles away from home. Is it worth travelling that far without tasting local cuisine, though? We reckon not, and here are five reasons why:
Sometimes, you simply don’t want to try something new because you have a negative attitude. There is a good chance you won’t like the food, but giving it a try won’t hurt you. You just need to do your research on popular local foods and use a random restaurant generator to find an eatery near you.
Foreign cuisine is usually more expensive, mostly because few people know how to prepare them and they are mainly consumed by tourists. In a foreign land, your home cuisine is the foreign cuisine, and if you are travelling on a budget, it may not be the best option for you. Local food, on the other hand, is typically cheap, and the range of options is accommodative of all budgets.
When travelling to a developing country or exploring remote towns and villages in your destination, it’s only responsible that you buy from the small-scale food vendors along the side of the road and in small restaurants. When you eat in a western fast-food restaurant chain such as KFC, a great deal of your money goes to the owner, who has nothing to do with the country you are visiting. What’s more, eating in high-end places only makes you stick out like a sore thumb and denies you the chance to interact with locals.
Many restaurants in foreign countries avoid frozen meat, fish, and vegetables and opt for fresh food in a bid to attract picky customers and circumvent the high costs of food refrigeration. The fact that supplies don’t have to travel far to reach their kitchens is also a massive factor in that trend. Whatever their reason, this is an advantage you get without being charged extra.
Your daily diet is probably composed of foods that were introduced to you by someone else, perhaps your parents or friends. You have never made a discovery, and your country doesn’t give many opportunities for that since everyone is eating the very same foods. Travelling abroad gives you the chance to extend your meal assortment without having to piece together a recipe. If you are a cuisine enthusiast, taste as many foods as you can, and make sure to jot down their names and ingredients before leaving the restaurant.
Not everyone likes tasting new foods, but exploration is how the world’s best dishes came to be. Eat local when you travel, and while this will mainly be an advantage on your part, it will also benefit the people who welcomed and hosted you.
This is a collaborative post.
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