Suzhou: Barely Made It Out Alive!
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Certainly! Here's the translated text with attention to readability and fidelity to the original:
Sniff, sniff, I want to tell you guys that last night was truly one of the worst nights of my life!
- Starting from midnight, I threw up wildly, feeling like I had vomited everything in my stomach, including yellow bile (gastric acid)!
- At the time, I was alone in a hotel room and was incredibly overwhelmed. Horrible thoughts, such as "Would I just die this way in a foreign land?" crossed my mind.
I figured this must have been caused by food poisoning, eating something wrong! Let me recount exactly what I ate yesterday:
- Around 4 PM when it was hot outside, I had some ice cream.
- Around 8 PM for dinner, I had lemon tea and MaLa Tang (้บป่พฃ็ซ), a hot pot-like dish popular Chinese street food. You pick various vegetables, meat slices, and balls, and the vendor cooks them in a large pot with spicy broth. It sounds yummy, right? But the cleanliness might be questionable at times...
- After dinner, around 10 PM, I started vomiting uncontrollably, regurgitating everything in my stomach until empty.
- This resulted in me not having a good night's sleep due to all that suffering.
Reflecting on it now, it seems most likely that the problem came from the MaLa Tang!
Important Travel Reminder! Here's some serious advice for friends traveling in China! - Regarding take-out (ๅคๅ - Food Delivery):
- This experience has given me a bloody lesson. When traveling outside and ordering food through Apps on your phone delivered to your hotel (which is what we call "take-out"), you must be extra careful!
- How can you avoid trouble
- Select restaurants that have good reviews and ratings, appear reputable and clean.
- If possible, try going out to eat at these restaurants so you can see the environment yourself.
- Street vendors that appear to have poor hygiene conditions are better off avoiding unless you feel you can stomach the risk.
- Or else, you'll end up like me, with food poisoning ruining your entire trip.
Oh dear, this trip to Suzhou (่ๅท) was originally one I'd looked forward to with great enthusiasm, but then met with such misfortune! This experience left me extremely frustrated!
It's worth noting that Suzhou is a beautiful city renowned for its classical gardens and water towns. All Suzhou locals I encountered were especially friendly and welcoming, so rest assured it wasn't their fault.
Feeling incredibly unlucky, it seemed as if my destiny was not aligned with this city (a Chinese saying which refers to bad luck due to misalignment). I might have really brought bad luck upon myself by coming to Suzhou... tears!#TravelNightmare #SoloTravel #FirstTrip #FoodPoisoningWhileTraveling
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I think I might have acute gastroenteritis. I'm taking a taxi to the hospital to get some medicine.
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I'm running out of time! I have to rush for my train (or bus) again soon. Such terrible luck! Ughh...
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My boyfriend and I got food poisoning too. I guess we're not used to the local conditions/food in Suzhou.
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I got food poisoning too. Suzhou is just awful!
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I threw up twice on my second day here. I guess I'm not used to the food; it's quite sweet. Then, after eating anything, I'd feel unwell and want to puke.