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My country is very close to Thailand (1 hour flight) and I can tell you that Thai food is not at all similar in Vietnam and Thailand. As for the cooking, I think it's more to the fact that he used a variety of spices in his dish. Thai cooking, for example, use more coconut milk and less pepper...

Traveler's diarrhea also comes from eating foreign foods that your stomach is not used to, and will result in a bad trip to the toilet. I think the antibiotics for that is co-trimoxazole (or Biseptol in my country). I'd check with the doctor and maybe bring a few packs of instant noodles just in...

Depends on what you normally do in your free time. A lot of people bring their games/laptop on the plane and use them there, which is getting more convenient now with plane WiFi. You can use in-flight entertainment on that tiny screen if that's your thing. Personally during my 13 hours flights...

The few vaccines you should consider are tetanus, typhoid and Hepatitis A. Depends on where you're going, you might need a vaccine for yellow fever, typhoid and Hep B as well. For malaria, you can just take oral drugs for the duration of your stay; ask your doctor and pharmacist about that. I...

Indian food cooked by my housemates always had a smell similar to Thai food to my nose. There seems to be a lot more nuances and a lot of sweet flavor in the recipe. The curry smell in some food in the UK is almost too overbearing and it limits the taste quite a bit, which is such a shame.

Vietnamese here. I'm not sure about travelling India -> Thailand, but I can answer the second part. For travelling from Thailand to Cambodia to Vietnam (especially Ho Chi Minh City), you pretty much only need a passport and some money. Buses frequently travel between these areas, so you won't...

When I lived in the UK, I often find myself purchasing Indian food and order takeaways. However, I had some Indian house mates before and the food that they cooked always smell different. I'm not talking about quality, because I haven't tried their food yet (it's theirs) but to my nose it always...