Our caloric demands coupled with difficult to find, unfamiliar, and in some instances bad tasting food certainly contributed to the high rate of attrition among the team riders. No good eats, can't feed the machine. Our best food of the trip was certainly in China, north of Lhasa. We discovered local restaurants serving great bowls of stir fried vegetables and noodles. India offered great relief to the daily regimen of dal and nan in Pakistan.
Vegetarian dishes are common The worst food in Asia is certainly to be found in Mongolia.
Strong tasting, hardened cheese, fermented mare's milk, and camel meat. Staples, also to be found among the nomadic people of Kygyzstan. I'm forgetting Turkmenistan. Very poor culinary variety. Local markets yielded some relief in a few vegetables and a discovery of Central Asian flatbread, lepioshka.