How to Prevent Diarrhea & Enjoy Indonesian/Balinese Traditional Food

If trying local food while you're traveling is a must for you, you should forget fancy restaurant or hotel food while you go to Indonesia or Bali. Otherwise you won't taste the real Indonesian food. Most of the best chief who understand the secret of proper spices blending and make extraordinary delicious food, do not work in hotel or fancy restaurant. They usually self employed with limited budget, so they could not afford to serve luxurious place to eat. Sometime the location really not representative, such as on narrow alley or on roadside. But if the chief is highly recommended and you really want food adventure, you should try without considering the place.

But, there are some points you should remember, so you can enjoy the real Indonesian food without severing diarrhea, such as :

Avoid uncooked food or hot food that already been cold. Eat only hot food. If you be served with fresh vegetable ask them to quick wash it with hot water.
Don't eat fruits that already been cut into small pieces. Choose fruits that can be peeled by yourself, such as banana, orange etc.
Don't drink cold water if it contain scraggly ice block. It usually be cut from large ice block made from uncooked water. It could be contain diarrhea bacteria. Just order hot drink. Or you can drink it if the shape blocks of ice looked that it has been frozen with small ice tray. That kind of ice usually ordered special by chief and made from mineral water.
Drink only boil water or buy mineral water on the bottle.

And if you get diarrhea, don't get panic. It usually be cured in one or two days by itself. But there are several things you should remember to make you better and avoid your sickness getting worse, such as :

Don't drink milk, alcohol or food contain pepper.
Drink much water. Better if you get mineral water such as Pocari Sweet. Or drink water with salt and sugar.
Hot black tea will make your stomach feel better. Order black tea that made of from real small pieces of tea leaves and not using pocket tea. That kind of tea are more useful to cure diarrhea.
If you get fever, don't take diarrhea medicine. Most diarrhea medicine will stop your stomach to push you to go to toilet. It will prevent your body mechanism to throw the bacteria into feces and make its poison impeded. Just go to the doctor.