Afghan

Food is one of those most discussed topics among backpackers along with cheap guesthouses, bizarre stories, drugs, relationships, and other 'how-to's... It always draw everyone's attention when some cheap and decent eatery was mentioned. That's right. Everyone is hungry and willing to kill for some SAFE and local delicacy.

I took some pictures in the past years when I happen to come across any interesting thing concerning food. So here u go the food chapter. I am trying to make a note or some comment on each of picture (not each one actually). Most time the image speak for itself. I hope u guys will enjoy it!


Roadside Kebab, most common daily dish in Afghan


Breakfast, mainly meat and animal intestines. Those carnivors!


Snowshoe bread, named by me :)


Waiter with beans and rice



This is there combo meal, 4 pieces of kebab half piece of bread and a small pot of tea. Less than 1 buck.


Cantaloupe

Icecream, pretty artistic..eh?


Teahouse breakfast, tea + bread

Pakistan

Roadside refreshment, yogurt

Sweet green tea, tea runner (most kids) carries those small pots to the nearby shops.

Lime juice
Tea runner

Breakfast? Goat livers,lungs.. The idea of eat them never cross my mind.

Lamb legs.. Taken in Queeta, I was traveling with two vegetarians at that time. What a shame!

Salads
Mongo.. Punjab's mongo, 1st class in the world.

Fried bread
Goat brain in the bowl !? I am not bullshiting u. They have this for breakfast. Taken in Lahore, old city.

Kebab, burning fat is the only smell on food street at night.

India Food

Coconut juice, natural refreshment avail EVERWHERE

Dal
Here is the explanation from answers.com. -- Dal A spicy dish made with lentils (or other Pulses), tomatoes, onions and various seasonings. Dal is often pureed and served with curried dishes.
Like it is said it's main India daily dish, in my understanding rice with vegs stew. Its cost ranges from 10 (like the one shown in the picture I had in a crappy food shack in Varanasi costs 12 rupees) to 100 plus (served in those high class restaurant, one owner once told me they tried more than 100 different kinds of rice and before hunt down one variety from Sri Lanka, and finally 'made it right'. En... Yeah...Whatever. You got to have some story to tell if u wanna to charge something dozen times than usual.

Chipati: Flat, oval bread cooked in the tandoor
Which means a 2 rupee breakfast.

Sweets, Indians love deserts. They prefer those have higher sugar contents. I was wandering why most indians are slim.

View is as good as food. Taken in a Goa beach shack. They brough me Kingfisher after the pic taken.

Making Paratha .

Breakfast.

Dal -- I guess. For some of city dwellers everything happen on the street, eat, sleep, shxx.

Paratha: Flaky bread fried on the griddle
Coconut tree leaf served as one-time use dish is widely practiced in South India. I like it. But I did wash the leaf with bottle water myself. Oh, I am pathetic.

Tibetan bread -- so called. A piece of dough gets deep fried and served with butter or honey. Won't be able to find it in Tibet though. :)

Snacks. Taken in Darjeering, North India.

Juice sold by those beverage runners on bus. 5 rupees each. I dont' have the guts to drink it.

'Loads' of fried bread

Fried veg rice, trains stain food. Like happening in most counties, station food are most unpredictable kind. But no one can survive a 3 days train ride without eating something. So can just following your feeling.

Nice deco. Tempting. I still won't eat it. :)



Fried food is widely consumed in India. Most with vegs or unknown meat stuffed inside.

Samosa: Flaky, pyramid-shaped pastry stuffed with potatoes or ground meat; a traditional Indian snack. Yummy!
Best budget option and could lead days of prison time in toliet as a side effect if consuming dodging one . U got to ask my friend G, he fed on those things for 2 months. I start to eat them after I met G and found him healthy and acting like has a bunny inside, on the top of showing no signs of potential long-term illness.

For deceased. Ganges river.

Xinjiang (NW China)

Legendary Big Dish Chicken
Notes: Big dish chicken (BDC) is daily dish in Ürümqi which is super spicy chicken stew mixed with some vegs in a Big Big dish which u will find on all menus of most restaurants. Looking for the most authenticate one, head to Blood Station (kind of hospital collects blood for medical use.), those restaurants nearby are most reputable for this dish. Blooodyyyyy guaranteed!!! :)
传说中的大盘鸡
大盘鸡在乌鲁木齐是近人皆知的家常菜,几乎出现在大部分的餐馆菜单之上. 不过.....
最为地道还数血站大盘鸡,解为-采血站(属医院系统)附近的大盘鸡餐馆.

Be guest in nomads' tent (Tajikistanis)
Most are fried bread comes with assorted shapes and sizes serving with yogurts and hard candies. Highlight is 'horse milk'. Nomads collect horse milk and put in a sealed leather bag, stir it vigorously then put it away for a couple of days (I guess get it fermented a bit). Be careful! Stronger than beer!!! That's why tajik males spent most of the day roaming around neighbour's tents for 'milk'.
做客于塔吉克由牧民家

Night food marke in WuYi Road, Ürümqi
This is definitely meatlover's heaven. For sure.
五一路夜市,乌鲁木齐

Here's famous Roast Whole Lamb. I like the decoration of green leaf.
烤全羊

Ürümqi Kebab
It smells much better than it actually tasted. Server with a piece of bread and wash down with cheap local beer. Why? They r both chewy.
新疆的烤羊肉串 --还用多说?