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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, I re-read your post.

Your second visit there so you knew they don't have running hot water. Mixing water is a minor issue.

Why can't you cook? Get a damn skillet and saucepan and boil/saute stuff that you can eat.

Kids are resilient. Let them try other foods but insist they use boiled water for cooking anything.

Washing hands - I agree that people used to be like that but post COVID people are more aware. Get a few bars of soap if hand soap is not available and put them near every faucet.

Water is the main cause of illnesses in 3td world countries. Boil boil boil water even the water you use for brushing your teeth.

Bug spray to get rid of the mosquitoes. Wear long sleeves clothes and pants in the evening. Light up incense sticks to ward them off.

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The main way to cook is in a hole in the ground. Attaching a picture. Kids are also picky. Putting the effort into buying all the seasonings and equipment seems like too much effort. They way the cut vegetables is very different...  They use a huge sword that's free-standing. I will try to attach a picture.  No cutting board or chef knife is available.  [/quote]

Pictures attached. OP here.

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Even poor Chinese villages cook on a surface positioned at an ergonomic height. Squatting on the ground constantly, for cooking, eating, maybe even writing, sucks. Really, how hard is it to stack some boards, A-frame off the ground and put a slab board over those A-frame legs?[/quote]

China is 5x wealthier than India

But I can’t figure out where in India this is from - must be the north?

It’s pretty impressive for someone to come from such a poor background and end up bagging a “top tier larla”

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She's in Faridpur Bangladesh, not India. Probably comparable to India though in some ways India has become more commercialized than Bangladesh - little things like being able to get Oreos and potato chips in every village, pizza even in small towns/cities etc.[/quote]

Ah ok - never been. My parents are from madras so anything north of Bangalore seems alien to me even when people dump on India, I’m always like “this is not the India I know” - poverty in the south just is expressed differently I think

Yeah India is super odd that even the most rural areas in India will have terrible infrastructure and water but will have pizza, Oreos, chips, pretty much all American junk food and high speed mobile internet

Toxic combo imo [/quote]

Yeah I mean the toxicity is showing up in SKYROCKETING diabetes rates. It used to be more of a problem for the wealthy big city people - enjoying the fine dining in the luxury places all the time, but has spread to rural villages now too - bc people don't have enough to eat a good diet of fats/proteins etc. and yet when they have a few extra rupees laying around, well might as well grab oreos or pizza and sit here on my mobile phone for hours surfing the internet. Not saying it's necessarily good commercialization for the locals, but it does make it easier on Americans/American kids who have to go back to visit grandparents - they can definitely carve out a diet of cereal with shelf stable milk/oatmeal, toast with jam, pizzas, snacks like chips/crackers/oreos, and then rice/daal/cooked veggies/eggs - and make that work for weeks. And none of these need to be carried from the US as they are all available even in local village shops.

I'm sensing visiting Bangladesh is a bit harder than that.[/quote]

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