Asian Food

Chinese

Thai Japanese

Indian

Asia is known for its wide variety of food. Most Asian countries all have traditional dishes . Ingredients common in Asian cooking are rice, ginger , garlic, sesame seeds, chillies, onions , soy and tofu.

Thai FoodMost famous Thai dishes are Pad Thai and curries. Pad Thai is stir-fried rice noodle usually with vegetables, tofu and meat. It is a very popular street food . Thai curries are also another street food. There are lots of different types of curries most popular being red or green curries. They are called red and green curry because of their colour. Green curry made from green chillies and red curry from red chillies. Most curries are made from coconut milk. Traditionally Thai people get ingredients from street market.

Japanese Food• The best known Japanese food is sushi. It consists of cooked vinegared rice and nori (dried seaweed). It then has a filling or a topping which can be fish (usually raw), egg, avocado and fish eggs. Sushi is usually served with soy sauce, wasabi , pickled ginger. In a sushi restaurant the sushi is usually made in front of the costumers. People can watch them while eating at the bar.

Chinese food – Dim sum and tea•Dim sum is a Chinese meal usually eaten for breakfast or lunch but most restaurants do serve it all day. Tea is a very important part of dim sum. It is the first thing most people ask for when they arrive. It is customary to pour tea for others before you pour for yourself . To say thank you, tap the table with your index finger. Leaving the lid of the tea pot balancing on the top of the pot is a way of asking the waiters to fill the pot with hot water.

Dim sum food•Dim sum dishes are mainly steamed, fried or grilled. When they are steamed they are served in bamboo steamers. Popular dishes are hargow ( steamed prawn dumplings ) , char siu bao (sweet steamed bun with BBQ pork ) , wontons (dumplings) , siu mai ( pork dumplings ) , steamed custard buns ( sweet bun with an egg custard ) and much more. Traditionally dim sum dishes are put in a cart and is pushed around the restaurant.

Chinese bakery• In China, bakeries are popular places to get a snack.

Examples are mantou (plain sweet steamed bun), lotus seed bun (bun with a lotus filling and traditionally used as birthday cakes) , mooncakes (pastries with various fillings featured at the Mid-Autumn festival), pineapple buns (a sweet baked bun with a crunchy topping). It contains no pineapple but gets its name from the way it looks ), sausage bun (similar to a German hot dog), egg tarts (a tart with egg custard) and mochi (Japanese rice cake with different filling). A Chinese bakery smells delicious.

Indian food• India is famous for its food. Like a lot of Asian countries,

rice is very popular. Indians like to eat basmati rice (long and thin grains). They also use a lot of spices like turmeric, cumin, coriander etc. Famous food are samosas, rajma and naan. Samosas is usually served as a starter and is a fried or baked pastry with a savoury filling. Rajma is a vegetarian dish . Its made from kidney beans and spices. Naan is a flat bread cooked in a tandoori oven. A tandoori oven is a cylindrical oven made from metal or clay.

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Joanne Gorman