What people eat for their daily meals is a matter of local custom. Part of the fun of independent international travel is the opportunity to explore the local food dishes and meet the locals at restaurants and bars.
Chicken Fried Rice - I make the observation that just about everywhere I've been there is always chicken fried rice whether it's Peru, India or Ghana (and of course China). Rice is the most common staple food around the world and it's not hard to produce chicken and eggs.
It is recommend getting the anti-diarrheal vaccination (Dukoral(R) in Canada)! If you do come down with "Delhi Belly" in many developing countries you can easily and inexpensively buy strips of antibiotic tablets (usually ciprofloxacin) from street side sellers along with rehydration salts. An essential part of any travel kit is anti-diarrheal medicines and rehydration salts.
*** I proudly say that I have eaten KFC and McDonald's on 5 continents!!! *** hehehe.....
Chile - Puerto Natales in Patagonia. A pretty waitress serves a classic Chilean dish named "Cazuela" with meat, potatoes, corn and soup dish. The "tourist lunch" meal was advertised on a sign outside 3000 Chilean Pesos or around $6 USD. 12/09
Chile, South America - A local fisherman's seafood dish in Puerto Montt on the Pacific Ocean coast is known as "Curanto" with clams, mussels, sausage and chicken leg! One squeezes the lemon juice into the mussels before eating it. The meal set included the pisco sour lemon alcohol drink. Fantastic but more than I could eat! 5500 Chilean Pesos or about $11 USD. 12/09
Ghana - Sub-Saharan Africa - "Fufu" dish made with casava, a chunk of meat goat (?) including skin and hairs and spicy soup made with a local pepper known as "chito", 7000 Ghana Cedis or about 75 cents, 04/08
Punjabi sweets on a leaf in Lahore Pakistan, 20 Rupees or about 30 cents. I wasn't sure if one is supposed to eat the leaf too but I ate it anyways. 10/07
Cantonese lunch in Macau, China: chicken, sausages and mushrooms on rice in a fired clay pot. 12/07
A Buddhist ("kill nothing") vegetarian lunch on Lantau Island in Hong Kong. It was included with my tour ticket of the Big Buddha facility. 07/07
China - Suzhou - Pig tails and snouts. Also chickens feet on the left 07/07.
Cambodia - fried tarantula spiders near Phnom Penh. The live spiders were being taken out of the bucket in the background and tossed into hot oil - live. It didn't taste like much other than the oil actually. 10/07
Lima, Peru - South America - "Cuy" - A Baked Guinea Pig for lunch in Lima, Peru (30 Pesos, $9), It was not much to eat - mostly skin and bones but the hind legs had a little more meat on them. Apparently the Inca kings ate the little rodents as a delicacy. 04/07
Lima, Peru - Roadside fried potato chips and fried bananas, 04/07
Peru - Andes - Enjoying coca tea. The cocaine helps alleviate high altitude effects, 04/07
New Delhi, India - Freshly squeezed road side orange juice (10 Rupees, US 25 cents) They don't use disposable cups here and just was the glass cups in a bucket of water. 09/07
Uigar men sell "mutton biyrani" with lamb and saffron rice in Urumqi in northwest China, Aug 2007
Roadside kebabs in Urumqi, Xingjian Province, China, Aug 2007
KFC restaurant in Urumqi, Xinjian Province, China Urumqi is the city farthest from any ocean and this KFC must be the most remote one on the Earth! 08/07
Breakfast with the locals in Varanasi India, (20 Rupees or about 50 cents) 09/07
Hot and spicy breakfast in Panaji (Panjim), Goa India, (30 Rupees, 75 cents). It was so "hot" that I couldn't really finish the second stuffed pepper and I needed to yogurt to put out the fire in my mouth.... 10/07
Breakfast In Kolkata (Calcutta) India (15 Rupees, 30 cents), Sept 2007. I was walking down by the Houghley River waiting for the ferry when I stopped here for a quick breakfast.
Indian sweets in Calcutta, Sept 2007 (5 Rupees each, about 15 cents)
Breakfast cereal in Chanderi India, Sept 2007 (25 Rupees, 60 cents, including the Chai)
Lahore's Food Street in Pakistan - I forgot what I ate here...
Pakistan - Roadside potato fries, rolls and samosas in Peshawar. Everything tastes good if you're hungry enough! 08/07
Pakistan - Peshawar - Kid crushes sugar cane juice by the glass. 15 Pak Rupees - 25 cents. 08/07
Pakistan - Lahore fruit yogurt - (20 Pak Rupees, 30 cents) 08/07
KFC restaurant in PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN. Another risk of eating American fast food - terrorist attack. Here you have to go through the metal detector and guard with a 12 gauge shotgun. I don't believe the metal detector actually worked and they didn't even remove the shipping plastic on it. There were large concrete blocks on the street to prevent car bombings. Regretably KFC chicken sold here didn't use the "Colonel's Secret Recipe of 11 Herbs and Spices" like they do in the rest of the world. It was just flour dusted spicy fried chicken like I can make myself...The Colonel wouldn't approve. 08/07
China - Xinjiang ("New Territories"), Kashgar - Uygar man sells cold noodles, bagel like bread rings and lentil dishes. August 2007
Lunch in western China Kashgar - cold noodles with hot sauce, 7 RMB - $1 08/07
Bowl of tea and lamb kebabs, Kashgar, western China, 08/07
Breakfast on the China Rail train between Urumqi and Kashgar - The landscape was fantastic but the food was nothing to write home about! 08/07
Road side cold oily noodles with soy sauce, Lhasa, Tibet, China 06/06
Fermented Yak butter tea in Lhasa, Tibet, China, June 2006. The smell was so pungent that it was terribly hard to swallow and even harder to keep down! Apparently a favored local custom to drink this stuff in Tibet and Nepal.
Breakfast noodle soup with minced yak meat, Lhasa, Tibet, China, June 2006. 7 RMB, USD$1 The restaurant owner served this to me as I couldn't speak his language and ALL THE MENUS were in Chinese and Tibetan - nothing even closely recognizable in Latin characters which is a real problem when travelling in Tibet.
A KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken in Beijing China - The advertising campaign clearly targets a young audience. While the chicken tastes the same as North America, the side dish selection were quite different and cater to the Chinese markets. Thankfully I enjoyed KFC, McDonald's, and Pizza Hut just about everywhere in China!!!! 06/06
Chinese breakfast of congee, dumplings and hard boiled egg in Rikaze (Shigatse), Tibet, China June 2006, 5 RMB or 60 cents.
Tibet - Lhasa - Typical Chinese breakfast at the "Lhasa Tourist Hotel", pork and vegetable dumplings, a hard boiled egg and rice congee soup. 06/06
More cold noodles with soy sauce and onions in Lhasa, Tibet, China June 06/06
Tibetan food in Rikaze Tibet China. I had the usual tourist problem: The staff don't speak English and the menu is written entirely in Chinese and Tibetan language so I just pointed to what someone else was eating and gestured "I want the same!" 06/06
Pretty waitress at a Tibetan Restaurant, Rikaze (Xigatse), Tibet, China June 2006
Yellow Curry goat meat, potatoes and carrots for lunch in the Himalaya Mountains of Kashmir, India as prepared by our cook and trekking guide. I got pretty tired of eating this stuff for 3 days in a row. Sept 2007