New Delhi - Post Report Question and Answers
What do people who suffer from environmental or food allergies need to know?
The air quality makes living here so difficult. Some restaurants are not as conscious about food allergies. - Apr 2024
Be very careful. You're not likely to be warned if there's something that could trigger a food allergy in your dish. Unless you're allergic to pollution, environmental pollutants shouldn't be a huge issue in New Delhi because there's almost zero green space anywhere in the city. - Jan 2022
If you have breathing problems (asthma, allergy-induced asthma, etc) - think twice. Per above, the pollution is palpable. Re: food allergies, you can't rely on local restaurants to provide accurate info on whatever is in any given dish, so be alert. - Sep 2020
If you’re allergic to dairy or eggs, you’re in luck, because all you have to tell the restaurant is that you are “pure veg” and you’ll be all set. - Jul 2020
Prepare to be swollen, itchy, and congested.. - Jul 2019
Do not, under any circumstances, come here. - Dec 2017
Bleaching your vegetables, fruit, eggs in a chlorine solution for 30 minutes up to 2 hours is a must. Do not eat salad or any uncooked produce if you do not know where it came from and who served you. - Oct 2017
Dairy is in pretty much all local cooking. Vegetarians will be fine-many locals are vegetarian and everything is clearly marked. Restaurant staff don't always know what is in the recipes, so be leery if your allergy is bad. - Mar 2017
The air quality will be very hard on you. - Feb 2017
Be careful, I guess. - Nov 2016
