…more like The Amazingly Hard Race Asia. Seriously this season has been hardcore so far, if the tasks on the USA version look arduous you should see this show. The legs seem to last for days without breaks, the things they have them do seem genuinely difficult and frustrating, the direction and travel seems difficult and heck some of the tasks are darned dangerous.

I would not have been able to do the 25 hour coach journey they did in the second episode. I would go crazy doing 25 hours in the comfort of my own car, but on a small, cramped, bumpy, dirty, smelly and ancient old coach….no thanks.

I definitely would not have been OK with the race to the final pit stop in the 3rd episode, where not one, not two but three of the poor blighters crashed their rickshaws into bikes or even cars! Dangerous dangerous dangerous.

There’s no way I would have eaten the ‘mens bathroom smelling’ tofu soup they had to get through in the latest episode. Especially not with other people all around me gagging and throwing up.

It’s no wonder that we’ve had two teams essentially quit already, by not bothering to complete the final task and taking a four hour penalty. That’s not fun to see…it doesn’t often happen in the American version of the show, that’s for sure.

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