How to eat adventurously on your honeymoon without spending a day sick in the hotel room

Nobody wants a honeymoon story that ends with a day lost to food poisoning, but the instinct to avoid it by only eating at the hotel restaurant closes off a lot of what makes travel worth it in the first place. A few practical habits let you eat more adventurously with less risk.

Follow the crowds, not the guidebook

A busy local stall with high turnover, where food isn't sitting around, is generally a safer bet than an empty one, regardless of how clean either looks from the outside. High turnover means fresher food, which matters more than surface-level hygiene appearances.

Water is the actual risk, more than food

In destinations where tap water isn't safe to drink, that includes ice in drinks and the water used to wash salad and fruit, not just what comes from the tap directly. Bottled or purified water, and being deliberate about which fruits and vegetables you eat raw versus cooked, matters more than most people account for.

Pack the basics, just in case

Oral rehydration salts and a basic anti-diarrheal, packed before you go rather than sourced in an unfamiliar pharmacy while unwell, turn a bad day into a manageable one rather than a lost one.