Today's Fresh Asian Food

These are the four most recently updated lenses in the Asian Foods Group.

Healthy Delicious Tomato Rasam Recipe, Palak Paneer Recipe, Ting's Thai Kitchen, Dal Makhani Recipes

RICE

Let's start with something every Asian food has in common. You've got to have delicious rice for any Asian cuisine.

How to Cook White Rice

If you want to know how to cook white rice perfectly, it's easy: just follow this recipe! Not wishing to criticize other methods of rice cooking, but I can honestly say that I have yet to find one online that doesn't omit an essential ingredient or st...

Thai Food

Thai cuisine is known for its balance of five fundamental flavors in each dish or the overall meal - hot (spicy), sour, sweet, salty and bitter (optional). Although popularly considered as a single cuisine, Thai food is really better described as four regional cuisines corresponding to the four main regions of the country: Northern, Northeastern (or Isan), Central and Southern. Southern curries, for example, tend to contain coconut milk and fresh turmeric, while northeastern dishes often include lime juice.



Instead of a single main course with side dishes found in Western cuisine, a Thai full meal typically consists of either a single dish or rice khao with many complementary dishes served concurrently.

Rice is a staple component of Thai cuisine, as it is of most Asian cuisines. The highly prized, sweet-smelling jasmine rice is indigenous to Thailand. Steamed rice is accompanied by highly aromatic curries, stir-fries and other dishes, incorporating sometimes large quantities of chillies, lime juice and lemon grass. Curries, stir-fries and others may be poured onto the rice creating a single dish called khao rad gang, a popular meal when time is limited. Sticky rice khao neow, substitutes ordinary rice in rural Northern and Northeastern cuisine. Noodles are popular as well but usually come as a single dish, like the stir-fried Pad Thai, or noodle soups.

Thai food is generally eaten with a fork and a spoon. Chopsticks are used rarely, primarily for the consumption of noodle soups. The fork, held in the left hand, is used to shovel food into the spoon. However, it is common practice for Thais and hill tribe peoples in the North and Northeast to eat sticky rice with their right hands by making it into balls that are dipped into side dishes and eaten.

Thai Food- Papaya/Mango Salad

Papaya salad is almost as much a staple part of my diet as rice is. For sure if I eat out and am not given any som tam (papaya salad in Thai), I will soon after be found at a roadside food vendor, correcting the deficiency. If you lived on a diet of...

Thai Food

Thai Food Cooking Video Showcase

Thai food is so delicious that I just can't get enough of. I love the way Thai foods blend in all the natural flavours of different herbs and spices to create mouth-watering dishes. I live in Thailand and consider myself fortunate to be able to eat T...

Darwin's Thai Kitchen

All about an American Expat Vetrepeneur Adventurer living in Thailand, sharing what I learned about cooking Thai food. How to use spices and chillies to make some of the best tasting food around. Spice it up with Thai.

Quick and Easy Authentic Thai Food Recipes

Thailand has a lifestyle the rest of the world could envy. An independent nation founded in 1238, its original name, Sukhothai, means “Dawn of Happiness.” Ever since, the Thai culture and cuisine have been based on pleasure and harmony. It...

Thai Food Recipes and CookBooks

Thai food is internationally famous. Whether chilli-hot or comparatively bland, harmony is the guiding principle behind each dish. Thai cuisine is essentially a marriage of centuries-old Eastern and Western influences harmoniously combined into somet...

Making Thai Cuisine Easy and Tasty

The lens intro title is naturally subjective. There are many great cuisines out there in the world (French, Italian, Japanese and Indian spring to mind), and each has its own distinctive taste, smell and value. But it's hard not to love Thai Foo...

Ting's Thai Kitchen

Ting's Thai Kitchen offers the finest in Thai cuisine at 18983D Hartmann Road in the Hardesters Shopping Center in Hidden Valley Lake, CA. The restaurant is open Tuesday through Sunday. Come in to Ting's to eat wonderful Thai cuisine and bring a mob...

Chicken Red Curry -- Thai Style!

I've been making Thai style chicken red curry for several years that I've pretty much got it down to a science. And that's just what I need when we are talking about MY hubby.  You see, he was a science teacher and has been a chemist for all his...

Simple Thai Green Curry

This is a delicious yet simple green chicken curry recipe for people seriously pushed for time. Thai green curry can be made using readily available curry paste, and just involves chopping some chicken and vegetables into bite sized pieces. A wonderf...

How to Make Thai Green Curry

Thai Green Curry (Gaeng Kieow Waan) is perhaps the most popular of all Thai dishes with foreigners, certainly after thirteen years living in Thailand it is still one of my favourites. Indeed at various times Thai Green Curry has been voted the number...

How To Make Pad Thai

Pad Thai, or sometimes called phat thai, is one of the most famous Thai dish. Phat means "stir-fry" in Thai and that is exactly what this dish is - stir fried noodles. Pad Thai is one of those tasty and simple dishes that is enjoyed by all no matter...

Chinese Food

Oolong Tea

For hundreds of years in the Far East, Oolong tea has been respected for its medicinal qualities and unique taste. Recently, it has been marketed heavily here in the states as a weight loss product. You may have seen advertisements with crazy claims...

Chicken Chop Suey

A quick and easy chicken and vegetable stir fry recipe that is as healthy as it is delicious. You can use any meat you want or just use vegetables, providing you with nutritionally balanced fast-food after a long day when cooking for hours in the kit...

About Chinese soup recipes

I'm the webmaster of homemade-chinese-soups.com. I started researching and writing about home-cooked chinese soups because it is one of my favorite food dish and it connects me to my culture. In this lens, I muse a little abit about what makes chine...

How about a bowl of black chicken soup?

Let's just say that black chicken has a long culinary history in the chinese kitchen. Black chicken soup is quite a common chinese healing soup. It is usually accompanied by various complementary chinese herbs to treat a wide range of ailments or co...

Chinese Food Cooking Video Showcase

Cooking Chinese Food can be fun and easy to make by yourself at home. Chinese food is tasty and for the most part very healthy and fresh. I love to cook Chinese food and have compiled a cooking instruction video showcase here of popular and tasty chin...

Wonton Soup

Wonton soup is a chinese food. This is not a dish for a quick meal because wrapping wontons will take up some time. I have tried to be as detail as possible in this recipe especially on the part where you wrap your wonton. You can choose to use a t...

How To Make Peking Duck At Home

The Chinese People have perfected the art of slow roasting duck, and turned it into a staple of Chinese cuisine.

Hungry for Dim Sum

I am a Chinese/Filipina American, born in the Philippines, but whisked away to the states when I was about six years old. I remember how strange American food seemed to me at first, how much I missed pancit, fried bananas, ube, sticky rice, and my pr...

Recommended Indian Food Lenses

Do you like Indian food? If not, I bet you will be dying to try some after reviewing these great lenses!

Indian: The Best Cuisine Ever

The Cuisine of India is characterized by its sophisticated and subtle use of many spices and herbs. Considered by some to be one of the world's most diverse cuisines, each family of this cuisine is characterized by a wide assortment of dishes and coo...

Dal Makhani Recipes

Dal Makhani is one of my favorite recipes. I am literally in love with this dish. I still remember the day i returned from a trip to Europe dying to eat authentic indian spicy food and my mom had made a bowl of delicious Dal Makhani. I simply devoure...

Healthy Delicious Tomato Rasam Recipe

Rasam is a South indian dish. Rasam is healthy and a great digestive aid. Rasam's main ingredients are tomato and tamarind. It can be prepared spicy or mild according to your taste. It is liquid in consistency. Rasam has lot of spices and few lentils...

Making a good Curry

If you are anything like me you will love Indian Curries, not just the curry but all the associated things that go with the meal, Onion bhajee, Nan bread, Bombay potatoes and all the other lovely things you can eat with your Indian meal. The best boo...

Indian Food Recipes and Cook Books

Indian Food (Cuisine) has now become very popular worldwide. You can find find Indian restaurants in almost every city in the world. London itself has over 400 Indian Food and Curry Restaurants. Millions of Indians now reside outside of India and ar...

Chicken Nasi Briyani

Nasi Briyani is actually an Indian food. The Chinese, Indians and the Malays cook nasi briyani differently and they taste differently too. Most are served with side dishes but I like it as a one dish meal. In this lens, you will learn how to cook na...

Palak Paneer Recipe

Palak Paneer is a traditional North Indian delicacy and is an integral part of the Punjabi cuisine. It is also one of my favourite dishes. Not just because I love both palak and paneer but also because it always transports me back to my younger days...

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Malaysian Goodies

Hawker Food in Penang

This Lens is dedicated to introducing Penang hawker street food to the world. It is not as well known yet as Thai food. It is a shame to let the rest of the world to miss the experience of the many different types of street food which evolved and is...

Laksa : Taste of Malaysia

It's delicious, it's addictive, it's rich, slightly sweet and strongly spiced. It's laksa! Even the name is delightful. It rolls off your tongue and tempts your tastebuds. Try it. So what exactly is laksa? It's a coconutty broth with lemongrass and...

Delicious Dishes from Vietnam

Banh Mi Sandwich

A baguette filled with cold cuts of pork, sliced pickled carrots and radishes. That is the most common form of the Banh Mi sandwich. But this sandwich has many forms. I stumbled on this sandwich for the first time while searching the internet for a...

Korean Food

Korean cuisine is based on the traditional food of Korea. From the complex Korean royal court cuisine to regional specialties to modern fusion cuisine, the ingredients and preparation are richly varied, and many dishes are becoming internationally popular. The foods described in this article are very different from Korean royal court cuisine, and were (and still are) widely enjoyed by the Korean masses. Kimchi is believed to be a healthy food with many purported health benefits.

It is based largely on rice, noodles, vegetables, meats and tofu (dubu in Korean). Traditional Korean meals are notable for the number of side dishes (banchan) that accompany the ubiquitous steam-cooked short-grain rice, soup, and kimchi (fermented, spicy vegetable banchan, most commonly cabbage, radish or cucumber). Every meal is accompanied by numerous banchan.



Korean food is usually seasoned with sesame oil, doenjang (fermented soybean paste), soy sauce, salt, garlic, ginger and gochujang (red chili paste). Korea is the largest consumer of garlic, ahead of the rest of Asia (particularly China and Thailand, excluding Japan) and the Northern Mediterranean (mainly Spain, Italy, and Greece).

The cuisine varies seasonally, and especially during winter, traditionally relies much on kimchi and other pickled vegetables preserved in big ceramic containers stored underground in the outdoor courtyard. Preparation of Korean food is generally very labor-intensive.

Korean royal cuisine, once only enjoyed by the royal court of the Joseon period, take hours and days to prepare. It must harmonize warm and cold, hot and mild, rough and soft, solid and liquid, and a balance of presentation colors. It is often served on hand-forged bronzeware or bangjjaa. The foods are served in a specific arrangement of small dishes alternating to highlight the shape and color of the ingredients.

Korean Delights

The Best Non-Southern Barbecue

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KOREAN ALTERNATIVE TO THE TRADITIONAL SOUTHERN STYLE BARBECUE. IT'S SOUTHERN ALRIGHT, BUT IT'S SOUTH KOREAN.

Indonesian Dishes

Spicy Chicken : Taste of Indonesia

Indonesian food is one of the most vibrant and colourful cuisines in the world, full of intense flavour and varied textures. It's as diverse as the Indonesian culture, with culinary influences from Chinese, European, Middle Eastern, and Indian source...

Japanese

Traveling for Food: Tokyo

I love food and I love traveling. So what's better than searching out great restaurants and eating great food when traveling? Many people say that they are on a budget when traveling, and yes, that's true! Everyone has a budget, but that doesn't neces...

Sushi Addict

Like many people, I am a big fan of sushi. The sticky rice, the fresh fish and the wide range of delicious fillings make sushi addictive. For the best Sushi experience I headed to Japan, to sample the delights from the home of sushi itself....

Sushi

For me and many others, Sushi is much more then just something you order at a Japanese restaurant.  Sushi is an addiction! Just imagine...delicate slices of fresh fish arranged a top molded rice, dipped in wassabi & soy sauce....YUMMM!!!!

Crazy Japanese Food!

Living in Japan, I cannot help but sample all of the different food that is here. And what I have discovered is probably one of the most food crazy cultures in the world! The Japanese love food, love fresh food, and will eat nearly anything! So I hav...

For the Love of Natto!

I've created this Lens as a safe haven for Natto Lovers around the world to share their Natto memoirs, recipes and reviews, and initiate the adventurous gourmet to the bittersweet delights of Natto!

Find more great Asian recipes, ideas, and tips on these terrific lenses!

Teriyaki Sauce | How To Make Teriyaki Sauce | Homemade Teriyaki Sauce

Although teriyaki sauce is readily available to buy, homemade teriyaki sauce is very easy to make. Once made, it can be used to make teriyaki chicken, teriyaki chicken wings, teriyaki chicken kabobs, or teriyaki salmon. Actually, teriyaki sauce is de...

ILoveObento.com

Once you know about bento I think you'll fall in love.  I did.  It's art in a box, a lunch box.  If you'd like to see some, just google "bento" or "obento".  I've got a bento blog myself at xanga.com/ILoveObent...

Soba!

...but on my recent trip to Japan I learned to love this under appreciated simple food.  When the weather is hot and sticky few things are simultaneously satisfying and light as cold soba noodles dipped in soy based sauce. The photo was kindly sh...

Foods and Flavors that Span Asia

Instant Ramen (Noodles), what you need to know about them!

Instant Ramen noodles, or simply instant noodles, are noodles that were originally invented in Japan but are popular now in all Eastern Asia and among busy or lower-income salary-men and studients. Since I've been all of them, I've literally tasted a...

Herbs for Cuisines and Health

For centuries, herbs have enriched the cuisines and health practices of Asians. It has become part and parcel of modern life and have been embraced by cultures worldwide for their taste, fragrance and medicinal properties since ancient times.&nb...

No Durian!

Things that stink: feet, Courtney Love, and Durian! Durian is a fruit that grows in South East Asia. It stinks like raw eggs, and tastes... complex. I eat Durian all the time. I'm lucky enough to be able to find it frozen in my local Chinese grocery...

tofu

Have you ever bought tofu with the intention of taking it home and making something edible with it - only to open the package and say to yourself, "No way!" If you were lucky, the water it came packed in didn't soak your clothes and spill a...

Asian Wines

Yeah, I know everyone has heard of Saki, and Plum wine, but in this lens, I am going to try and give some examples of other Asian wines from various countries and regions. This is just a brief look at the Asian wine industry and efforts at...

How to Make Musubi

This is one of President Obama's favorite local snacks when visiting the island of 'Oahu. Musubi is sold by the thousands every day at local 7-11's in Hawai'i Make your own musubi at home! It's not quite the same as the musubi you can buy at 7-11 on...

Stir Fried Garlic Squid with Ramen, Recipe for Fresh Squid

Do you like squid? Oh dear! Maybe you ARE a squid. In that case turn your eyes away right now! Don't read any further. You won't like the gory details. Really, don't look now. I'm not kidding! Don't say I didn't warn you!

Make your own curry powder

There's nothing more delicious than a curry, but have you ever wondered what herbs and spices actually go into one? You can find out here what to do to make the tastiest curries ever. You can even invent your own combination of spices so you get a p...

Pork and Ginger Ravioli

A Recipe For The Home Cook

Foods Distincitve to Guam

Guam's Delicious Recipes

Born and raised on Guam, I never stop comparing parties with the village-wide fiestas where EVERYONE is invited. Rub elbows with the mayors and senators of the island, and never tire of the abundance of food, music and laughter. With its multi-cultur...

Filipino Foods

Oompa Lumpia 1-2-3

Okay - so it's pretty much a guarantee that if I'm throwing a party or coming to a potluck, I'll be making lumpia (pronounced loom-pee-uh) by request. I don't know what it is exactly that makes my recipe different, but I've even had a few Filipinos t...

Taiwanese Food

The Cuisines of Taiwan have several variations. In addition to the following representative dishes from the Hoklo ethnicity, it also encompasses aboriginal, Hakka, and local derivatives of Chinese cuisines (one famous example of the last is beef noodle soup).

Taiwanese cuisine itself is often associated with influences from mid to southern provinces of China (Canton, Fujian, etc., due to proximity) along with Japan (due to Taiwan's time under Japanese rule). Traditional Chinese food to be found in Taiwan, alongside classically Taiwanese and Hakka-style dishes, includes dishes from Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Shanghai, Hunan, Sichuan and Beijing.


Pork, rice, soy, are very common ingredients. Beef is far less common, and some Taiwanese (particularly the elderly generation) still refrain from eating it. This is in part due to a traditional reluctance to slaughtering precious cattle needed for agriculture, and an emotional attachment to such beasts of labour.

Taiwan's cuisine has also been influenced by its geographic location. Living on a crowded island, the Taiwanese had to look aside from the farmlands for sources of protein. As a result, seafood figures very prominently in their cuisine. This seafood encompasses many different things, from large fish such as tuna and grouper, to sardines and even tiny fish the length of a thumbnail. Crustaceans, squid, and cuttlefish are also eaten.

Because of the island's sub-tropical location, Taiwan has an abundant supply of various fruit, such as papayas, melons and citrus.

Some of Taiwan's agricultural products in general are rice, corn, tea, pork, poultry, beef, fish, and other fruits and vegetables.

The scarcity of natural resources has made for hard living on the island. As the Taiwanese had to make do with very little, they show remarkable adaptiveness and creativity when it comes to preparing food.

From many of their dishes, the Taiwanese have shown their inventiveness in the selection of spices. Taiwanese cuisine relies on an abundant array of seasonings for flavour: Soy sauce, rice wine, sesame oil, Black beans, pickled radishes, peanuts, chili peppers, parsley, and a local variety of basil ("nine story tower"). The resulting dishes thus combine and form interesting tastes which make Taiwanese cuisine simple in format yet complex in experience.

Foods from Taiwan

It's a small island, but it's not small on taste!

Taiwanese Hotpot (Huo Guo / Shabu Shabu)

This lens introduces one of my wife's and my favorite choices for eating out in Taiwan: Hot Pot (huo guo in Chinese and shabu shabu in Japanese).  If you have not tried Chinese (or Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, etc.) style hot pot, I hope this le...

Taiwan Tea

I love simple, but high-quality teas.  So I am fortunate to live in Taiwan, which produces some of the best teas in the world.  I also love the uncomplicated rituals of preparing social tea in Taiwan.  I use the term "social tea&q...

Taiwan Tea Bars

Taichung (táizhōng), Taiwan is the often referred to as the birthplace of the modern tea house.  Anyone who has spent any time in Taiwan has almost certainly visited one of the islands many tea houses. Modern Taiwanese tea houses are a f...

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