Eating Like the Natives

Whenever traveling, learning explodes when you spend time watching the local people and what they are doing and how they are doing things.


Here are five tips that might help you to enhance your visit to another country.

1. Do not go to American restaurants, stores. Look for the little businesses that are full of local people.

2. Even if you do not know the language, observe what local people are purchasing. In a restaurant, point to a dish that someone else had ordered and request that one.

3. In whatever country...learn the phrase...How much is this? in the native tongue.

4. If someone tells you how much something is, and even if you really want it...shake your head, put on your blah face, and walk away. If the merchant is willing to bargain, he/she will call you back.

5. Walk around discretely, observing everything, willing to try anything at least one. Avoid at all costs, the Ugly American stereotype.