>>2849285
Avoid Delhi, stay in a decent hotel, NEVER eat hotel food and only eat what locals eat, avoid meat because half of it is rotten and stick to vegetarian food (if you see how raw meat is handled, you'll immediately understand). Follow these rules and you'll be fine.

>>2849290
Is there any part of India where meat is good?

>>2849298
Some people might say that there are some places. But having seen people cut meat on dirty floors using knives between their toes (it's not just a Pakistani thing, unlike what some people will try to say) with flies swarming around, it's just not safe to risk it. You never know where the meat is being bought from and how it was butchered and stored before being cooked. Cooking will kill the bacteria, but it doesn't remove all the buildup of their waste byproducts or whatever grime and filth was soaked up by the meat while it was on a dirty floor. And those byproducts and filth will cause food poisoning that your immune system can't fight off.

Plus a lot of the people cooking meat could be vegetarian themselves. Would you trust a Muslim guy to cook your pork? Then don't trust a devout Hindu to cook your chicken or beef.

>>2849298
>>2849302
India and south Asia in general is the one area where I would go temporarily vegetarian. The way they prepare meat is absolutely retarded. They just hack away at the whole thing, fat and bones included, then throw it all into the same pot. You have to pause at every other chewing because you've found a tiny bone shard.

>>2849290
>NEVER eat hotel food and only eat what locals eat
Terrible advice. I mostly ate in hotel/guesthouse restaurants. All the food was great, I never had stomach problems, and mostly stuck to a $10 per day budget.
>avoid meat
Again, if you're sticking to hotels and nicer restaurants this shouldn't be a problem.

>>2849298
You can eat any meat you want here in Maharashtra, as long as it's chicken. Mutton is also available, but rarely.
>>2849285
Yes, hostels can be very cheap.
>>2849290
"Hotel" restaurants are merely a class of restaurant with full table service. Some of them are very good, but it can be tough to get a table at such places.
>>2849339
In Malaysia, yes. Here I haven't encountered the practice of hacking carelessly with a meat cleaver. The ₹100 chicken shawarmas are delicious and good protein if you're feeling meat-starved.

>>2849350
If you're eating at restaurants in hotels and they're full service restaurants full of Indians and people who aren't guests at the hotel eat there, it's fine. If it's a place that offers food only for hotel guests and it's tourist-centric, absolutely avoid. There are zero repeat customers at that restaurant. The vast majority of food poisoning cases come from people eating at hotels that serve food for white picky eaters. They don't prepare stuff in a sanitary way and often reuse old food or let it sit out all day. Plus none of the cooks eat any of the stuff they prepare.

If the person cooking your food wouldn't eat that meal every week, and if that restaurant does not have frequent customers, it's not a place you should eat it.

>>2849285
it's fine
really fun actually
i would agree that you should avoid delhi, the air quality will cause health issues even for a day