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More specifically you should avoid the following:

- Street meat. Unrefrigerated meat spoils very rapidly. Bacteria build up toxins in the meat that don't go away even if you cook it. This can make you very sick and even kill.

- Cut fruit. You don't know if clean water was used to wash the knife or that the knife was not used to cut raw chicken or the like.

- Raw vegetables. Many places use human feces to fertilize the fields. You don't know if it was washed properly.

I lived recently in China for several years and got sick a lot and learned to become very particular about food. There seems to be a common perception among travellers that we're weak soft westerners and just need to toughen up and be like the locals who don't get sick. This isn't true, the locals get sick and die with alarming rates. Hepatitis, diarrea and various food born illnesses kill huge numbers of people globally due to poor sanitation.