&gt;&gt; The normal diet in China and Indonesia is plant based.<p>Speaking of a group of about 1.6 billion people as if they were a monolith is not particularly productive.<p>Just looking at China itself, there is huge variation in the &quot;average&quot; diets between different provinces (e.g., Shanghainese dishes tend to be sweeter, Sichuanese dryer and spicier, etc.). And even at that provincial level it&#x27;s kind of silly to lump everyone into a single average.