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I think if I were traveling in a foreign country on business, bad local imitations of my native cuisine would not be what I'd want for lunch: I would want excellent examples of the local foods.

So there is leftover Chinese food in the staff kitchen since we have a group here from a Chinese company. It's not "bad Chinese", it's reasonably decent American neighborhood Chinese food - but I am not from China.

Then again, I do remember being in Paris with other American high school students, who were desperate for McDonald's.

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I had to have some American food on my trip to India. The spices, the lack of animal protein and the general unfamiliarity of the food just destroyed me. I eventually threated a cow in order to be taken to a KFC (and I hate KFCs in the U.S.) And we worked out that "English food" means "boil it and put butter on it" to Indians. :)

I could actually see someone being curious enough to request their own food in another country - just to see what the interpretation would be... But... er... I probably ask my guests, and not asssume they want a bad imitation of their own cuisine.