Asian cuisine

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Vietnamese meal, in Asian culture food are often serves as the centerpiece of social gathering

Asian cuisine styles can be broken down into several tiny regional styles that have rooted the peoples and cultures of those regions. The major types can be roughly defined as East Asian with its origins in Imperial China and now encompassing modern Japan and the Korean peninsula; Southeast Asian which encompasses Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Viet Nam, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines; South Asian states that are made up of India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan as well as several other countries in this region of the continent;[1] Central Asian and Middle Eastern.

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Terminology [edit]

"Asian cuisine" most often refers to East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean), Southeast Asian cuisine and South Asian cuisine.

In much of Asia, the term does not include the country's native cuisines. For example, in Hong Kong and mainland China, Asian cuisine is a general umbrella term for Japanese cuisine, Korean cuisine, Filipino cuisine, Thai cuisine, Vietnamese cuisine, Malaysian and Singaporean cuisine and Indonesian cuisine; but Chinese cuisine and Indian cuisine are excluded.

The term Asian cuisine might also be used to address the eating establishments that offer wide array of Asian dishes without rigid cuisine boundaries; such as selling satay, gyoza or lumpia for appetizer, som tam, rojak or gado-gado for salad, offering chicken teriyaki, nasi goreng or beef rendang as main course, tom yam and laksa as soup, and cendol or ogura ice for dessert. In modern fusion cuisine, the term Asian cuisine might refer to the culinary exploration of cross-cultural Asian cuisine traditions. For example combining the culinary elements of Vietnam and Japanese, Thai and Malay, or Indonesian and Chinese.

By region [edit]

East Asia [edit]

Examples of complete Chinese meal, consist of rice, vegetables, meat and seafood dishes
Peking Duck, a kind of national food in China
Japanese sushi platter
Tibetan momos served in a tomato-based broth

Central Asia [edit]

Uzbek palov (pilaf)

North Asia [edit]

South Asia [edit]

South Indian dosa
Chicken tikka, popular in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
Hoppers from Sri Lanka
Persian chelow kabab, from Iran

Southeast Asia [edit]

Ponorogo chicken satay from Indonesia, satay also popular across Southeast Asia
Tom yum soup from Thailand
Sizzling sisig from the Philippines

Western Asia [edit]

Lebanese-style Hummus
İskender kebap from Turkey

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References [edit]

  1. ^ Le, C.N. (2008). "Asian Cuisine & Foods.". Asian-Nation: The Landscape of Asian America. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 2008-12-18. 

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