Hello!

I very much enjoyed your site and wanted to add
something to your collection of travel tips.

My parents toured the world and when they ordered a
meal in a restaurant they always ordered rice (which
had been boiled). This they would spread over their
plates (which weren't boiled) and spread their cooked
food on the rice. They then ate their food down to the
rice and not to the plates. This alleviated a large
percent of the jippy tummy and they got in trying the
local specialties.

In the Caribbean they were told, "You must try our
crab back and callilou! Nowhere else on this planet
will you find crab back and callilou (a spinach/okra-y
dish)!"

In Egypt years later they were told, "You must try our
mouloughia, it's ours and ours alone, nowhere else in
the world will you ever find mouloughia!"

It was callilou.

Cheers and happy trails.

Janet Rutherford
Portola Valley(behind Stanford University)
California