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I'm allergic to peanuts and pistachio nuts among other nuts but not every nuts. It's easy for me to avoid nuts on my day-to-day life (living in France), plus I'm more or less able to spot if I'm allergic just by smelling.

I almost never had a reaction, but sufficiently enough to know that if in contact with peanuts or pistachio nuts, I do Angioedema.

I wish to travel for 6 month across South-East Asia and Oceania. A non-exhaustive list of Countries I'd like to visit are : Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Sri Lanka, China and Japan.

I feel like Asians use a lot of peanuts and pistachio nuts in their food and I'm afraid my nose won't be able to tell if I'm allergic in every cases.

In those countries, is it difficult to find food that does not contain at all peanuts and pistachio nuts ?

What would be the best way for me to survive this trip ?

EDIT : I just found this website, following the idea of Tom that a website may be referencing in a lot of languages "how to say that I'm allergic to peanuts".

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There plenty of dishes in SE Asia that do not use nuts, you won't starve. But as you surmised it could be difficult to determine if nuts were used by smell or sight alone.

First thing you should do when you arrive in each country is to ask someone to write a note about your allergy in the local language. Keep it simple, that you have an allergy to nuts and please do not use nuts when cooking. I came across a website a while back had phrase cards for this sort of thing, but lost track of the url.

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