I've been all over the world, and there's always been Chinese food and pizza
I was thinking about this today, walking through my neighborhood. It's mostly Marathi, and they are pretty much all pure vegetarian except for some of the very old school castes of fisherman (though "vegetarian" in India often doesn't include fish or eggs).
On my block (a "block" is very big here -- a mile and a half or so) are four frankie stands (it's a kind of wrap, roughly a burrito), six pakora stands (fritters -- you know onion rings, I assume? they have those, plus similar snacks made with cauliflower, potato disks, sliced beets -- my favorite -- and okra), and two sandwich places. That's the "local" food. But against that there are by my count 14 Chinese restaurants, 9 pizza places, and two McDonalds's.
The pizza joints range from a dude with a flat-top grill and some capsicum (bell pepper) on a pita with cheese, through Dominos, to the best damn pizza I have had in my life outside of NYC or Italy, a place run by a Milanese dude. The Chinese places are all recognizably Chinese food, though they're heavier on rice offerings than American Chinese restaurants are.
I just also want to add that this is a very working-class section of Mumbai (we're pretty obviously the gentrifiers, taking over the abandoned mill space), not one of the posh neighborhoods like Bandra or Colaba (they have Starbucks every two blocks just like the US).
Anyways: that's been my experience in a lot of places: there's local food, there's pizza, and there's Chinese, pretty much anywhere in the world you go. Why is that? (I suppose "Chinese food and pizza are ****ing awesome, you idiot" is a fine answer...)
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There is a Mexican place in Siberia somewhere. My father had chicken enchilada's there. 
It was not exactly what I was used to. 
