Gulpp guides
Food allergy dining guides
Plain-language restaurant allergy guides for calling ahead, reading allergen charts, tracking reactions, and checking country rules before travel.
Dining out fundamentals
How to ask restaurant staff about food allergies
A practical restaurant allergy script for calling ahead, checking at the table, and reading staff answers without guessing.
Delayed allergic reactions after eating
Why leaving a restaurant feeling fine is not always the whole record, and how to track meals and symptoms after dining out.
How to read a chain allergen matrix
How to read contains, may contain, shared-equipment, and regional notes in chain restaurant allergen charts.
Eating out with a peanut allergy checklist
A restaurant checklist for peanut allergy diners, from calling ahead to asking about fryers and logging what happened.
Eating out with a shellfish allergy checklist
A restaurant checklist for shellfish allergy diners, including stocks, sauces, shared fryers, woks, grills, and seafood-forward kitchens.
Eating gluten-free at restaurants with celiac disease
A celiac-focused restaurant checklist for flour dust, pasta water, shared toasters, boards, fryers, and gluten-friendly menu wording.
By place
Country rules where official sources are available, plus practical travel notes for popular destinations.
Food allergy restaurant rules by country
A country-by-country comparison of packaged-food and restaurant allergen disclosure rules for allergy diners.
Eating out with food allergies in the United States
What US packaged-food allergen labels cover, what restaurants are not federally required to disclose, and how to ask.
Eating out with food allergies in Canada
What Canadian priority allergen rules cover for packaged food, what restaurants are not required to disclose, and how to plan.
Eating out with food allergies in the UK
What UK diners can expect from the 14-allergen restaurant disclosure rules, Natasha's Law, and staff questions.
Eating out with food allergies in the EU
How EU 14-allergen disclosure works for restaurants and why the form of the answer varies by member state.
Eating out with food allergies in Japan
How Japan's packaged-food allergen rules differ from restaurant practice, and why written allergy cards help.
Eating out with food allergies in Hong Kong
What Hong Kong packaged-food allergen rules cover, what restaurants are not required to disclose, and how to ask locally.
Eating out with food allergies in Australia
How Australia's packaged-food and unpackaged-food allergen information rules affect restaurant allergy planning.
Food allergy travel guide to Thailand
Practical restaurant allergy expectations in Thailand, including what to ask about peanuts, shellfish, fish sauce, soy, egg, and coconut.
Food allergy travel guide to Singapore
Practical restaurant allergy expectations in Singapore, including what to ask at hawker centres, chains, hotels, and food courts.
Food allergy travel guide to South Korea
Practical restaurant allergy expectations in South Korea, including what to ask about sesame, soy, wheat/gluten, shellfish, fish, and egg.
Food allergy travel guide to Taiwan
Practical restaurant allergy expectations in Taiwan, including what to ask about peanut, sesame, soy, wheat/gluten, shellfish, and egg.
Food allergy travel guide to China
Practical restaurant allergy expectations in China, including what to ask about regional sauces, shellfish, soy, wheat/gluten, sesame, and peanuts.
Food allergy travel guide to Mexico
Practical restaurant allergy expectations in Mexico, including what to ask about dairy, wheat/gluten, egg, peanut, tree nut, and shellfish.
Food allergy travel guide to Italy
Practical restaurant allergy expectations in Italy, including what to ask about wheat/gluten, dairy, egg, tree nut, fish, and shellfish.
Food allergy travel guide to Vietnam
Practical restaurant allergy expectations in Vietnam, including what to ask about peanut, fish sauce, shellfish, egg, soy, and wheat/gluten.
Food allergy travel guide to India
Practical restaurant allergy expectations in India, including what to ask about dairy, ghee, tree nuts, peanut, sesame, wheat/gluten, and legumes.
Food allergy travel guide to Indonesia and Bali
Practical restaurant allergy expectations in Indonesia and Bali, including what to ask about peanut sauce, shrimp paste, soy, egg, coconut, and seafood.
By cuisine
Ingredient and kitchen questions for cuisines where a dish name alone often is not enough.
Thai food allergy guide for restaurants
Common Thai restaurant allergy questions for peanut, shellfish, fish, soy, egg, coconut, and wheat/gluten.
Chinese food allergy guide for restaurants
Common Chinese restaurant allergy questions for peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish, soy, wheat/gluten, sesame, and egg.
Cantonese and dim sum allergy guide
Common Cantonese and dim sum allergy questions for shellfish, fish, soy, wheat/gluten, sesame, egg, and peanut.
Sichuan and Hunan food allergy guide
Common Sichuan and Hunan restaurant allergy questions for peanut, tree nut, sesame, soy, wheat/gluten, shellfish, and fish.
Northern Chinese dumpling and noodle allergy guide
Common northern Chinese dumpling and noodle allergy questions for wheat/gluten, egg, soy, sesame, peanut, shellfish, and fish.
Korean food allergy guide for restaurants
Common Korean restaurant allergy questions for sesame, soy, wheat/gluten, shellfish, fish, egg, and dairy.
Vietnamese food allergy guide for restaurants
Common Vietnamese restaurant allergy questions for peanut, fish, shellfish, soy, wheat/gluten, egg, and dairy.
Indian food allergy guide for restaurants
Common Indian restaurant allergy questions for dairy, tree nuts, peanut, sesame, wheat/gluten, lentils, and chickpeas.
Mexican food allergy guide for restaurants
Common Mexican restaurant allergy questions for dairy, wheat/gluten, egg, peanut, tree nut, sesame, and shellfish.
Italian food allergy guide for restaurants
Common Italian restaurant allergy questions for wheat/gluten, dairy, egg, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, and soy.
Japanese food allergy guide for restaurants
Common Japanese restaurant allergy questions for buckwheat soba, dashi, soy sauce wheat, tempura fryers, sesame, egg, fish, and shellfish.
Middle Eastern food allergy guide for restaurants
Common Middle Eastern restaurant allergy questions for sesame, tahini, tree nuts, dairy, wheat/gluten, egg, and shared falafel fryers.