Asia’s Most Popular Foods Two

1. Besh Barmak – Kazakhstan

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One of the most unique Asian foods is Besh Barmak, a popular Kazakhstan dish. It consists of boiled horse or

mutton meat with small pieces of pastry boiled in broth and sprinkled with parsley and coriander. The meat is

usually diced with knives and often mixed with boiled noodles. It is usually served in a big oval dish.

2. Shakshouka – Yemen

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This popular consists of poached or scrambled eggs cooked in a sauce of tomatoes, peppers and spices. It is a

Middle-Eastern egg and tomato dish and the staple not only of Yemeni but also of Algerian, Israeli, Moroccan and

Tunisian cuisine.

3. Shawarma – United Arab Emirates

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Shawarma which has become popular worldwide is the national dish of UAE. It is a Middle easternArabic-style

sandwich-like wrap usually composed of shaved lamb, goat, chicken, turkey, beef or a hala mixture of meats. It is

a popular dish and fast-food staple across the Middle East and North Africa.

4. Tabbouleh – Syria

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This tempting food from Syria is a Levanmtine Arab salad dish. Its primary ingredients are finely chopped parsely,

bulgur, mint tomato, scallion and other herbs with lemon juice, olive oil and various seasonings, generally

including black pepper and sometimes cinnamon and allspice.

5. Pad Thai – Thailand

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The delectable and mouthwatering Pad Thai is a dish of stir-fried rice noodles with eggs, fish sauce, tamarind

juice, red chili pepper, plus any combination of bean sprouts, shrimp, chicken or tofu, garnished with crushed

peanuts and coriander.

6. Dal Bhat – Nepal

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If you are a mountaineer and you are planning to reach the summit of Mt. Everest you need to have a taste of the

popular Nepalese dish called Dal bhat, a South Asian and staple dish that vary by locality, ethnic group, family, as

well as the season. It contains lentils, chili, onion, tomatoes and ginger along with herbs and spices such as

coriander, garam masala and turmeric.

7. Israeli Salad – Israel

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Salad is good as long as it is fresh and chemical-free. One salad worth trying is Israeli Salad. It is a chopped salad

of finely diced tomato and cucumber. It is widely regarded as an Israeli national dish. Israeli salad is usually

dressed with fresh lemon juice and olive oil. Parsley and spring onions are sometimes added and the cucumbers

are not peeled.

8. Donburi – Japan

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Aside from Sushi and Sashimi, another popular Japanese food is Donburi which literally means “rice bowl dish”. It

is consists of fish, meat, vegetables or other ingredients simmered together and served over rice. Donburi meals

are served in oversized rice bowls. Donburi are sometimes called Sweetened or Savory Stews on rice.

9. Stinky Tofu – Taiwan

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As the name suggest, Stinky Tofu has a strong odor. It is the favorite snack food of Taiwan and neighboring

countries and is widely loved. It is very commonly served on roadside stands and in night markets.

10. Curry Laksa – Singapore

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Curry Laksa is a coconut-based curry soup with tofu puffs, fish sticks, shrimp and cockles. Laksa is commonly

served with a spoonful of sambal chili paste and is garnished with Vietnamese coriander or laksa leaf.

11. Nasi Lemak – Malaysia

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Nasi Lemak is a popular dish sold not only in Malaysia and Singapore but also in Brunei and Thailand. It is called

the national dish, a national heritage of Malaysia. It can usually be found sold for breakfast.

12. Masgouf – Iraq

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Eating fish is healthy and one fish dish you’ll certainly adore is Masgouf, a traditional Iraqi dish. It is an open cut

fish grilled and spiced with salt, pepper and tamarind. Garnishes for this dish include chopped onions and

tomatoes. After the fish is well cooked and crispy, it is often sprinkled with the juice of a lemon.

13. Kabab Barg – Iran

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I love barbeque and I am sure you do. Kabab-e Barg is a Persian style barbecued lamb, chicken or beef kebab.

The main ingredients of Kabab Barg are fillets of beef tenderloin, lamb shank or chicken breast onion and olive

oil.

14. Chicken Tikka – India

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Chicken is cooked in so many ways and one unique chicken dish is Chicken Tikka, a dish of South Asia. It is

traditionally baked skewers with small pieces of chicken, usually boneless after marinating in spices and yogurt.

15. Khachapuri – Georgia

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Bread is basically the staple of many people in the world. A delicious bread dish you will surely like is Khachapuri

or Cheese Bread, a filled bread dish from Georgia. The bread is leavened and allowed to rise, and is shaped in

various ways. The filling contains cheese, eggs and other ingredients.

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Asia’s Most Popular Foods

Here’s a list of some of the most popular Asian foods.

1. Qaboli Palao – Afghanistan

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Qaboli Palao is the national dish of Afghanistan. It is consists of meat & stock, topped with fried raisins, slivered

carrots and pistachios. It is a dish in which a grain, such as rice or cracked wheat, is browned in oil, and then

cooked in a seasoned broth.

2. Peking Duck – China

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One of the most famous dishes from China is Peking Duck or Peking Roast Duck. The dish is prized for the thin,

crispy skin. It is often eaten with pancakes, spring onions and hoisin sauce or sweet noodle sauce.

3. Rendang – Indonesia

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This delicious and popular food in Indonesia is made from beef slowly cooked in coconut oil and spices for several

hours until almost all the liquid is gone, allowing the meat to absorb the spicy condiments.

4. Larb – Laos

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Larb is a meat salad most often made with chicken, beef, duck, turkey, pork and fish, flavored with fish sauce and

lime. The meat can be either raw or cooked; it is minced and mixed with chili, mint and assorted vegetables.

5. Biryani – Bangladesh

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The tempting and spicy Biryani is a set of rice-based foods made with rice, spices and meat/chicken/vegetables.

The name is derived from the Persian word berya which means “fried” or “roasted”.

6. Mohinga – Myanmar

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This very popular Burmese food called Mohinga which is usually eaten as breakfast is rice vermicelli in fish soup.

It is considered by many to be the national dish of Myanmar. It is readily available in most parts of the country. In

major cities, street hawkers and roadside stalls sell dozens of dishes of mohinga.

7. Sizzling Sisig – Philippines

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This unique Philippine food is a boiled, grilled or deep-fried part of pig’s head and liver chopped in tiny pieces and

seasoned with onion, chili pepper, calamansi and mayonnaise and sometimes top with fresh egg.

8. Ema Datsi – Bhutan

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A visit to the “land of the Thunder Dragon” will give you a chance to have a taste of Ema Datsi, a dish made from

homemade cheese and hot peppers. Cheese is produced by several ethnic minority groups by either using goat’s

milk or cow’s milk.

9. Kibbeh – Lebanon

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This is not a nut or vegetable fruit it’s Kibbeh, a dish made of burghul and chopped meat. The best-known variety

is a torpedo-shaped fried croquette stuffed with minced beef or lamb. Other types of kibbeh may be shaped into

balls or patties, and baked or cooked in broth.

10. Kimchi Jjigae – South Korea

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Kimchi is a very popular food in Korea and it has many variations, one of which is Kimchi jjigae. It is a variety of

jjigae or stew-like dish made with kimchi and other ingredients which include scallions, pork, onions, diced tofu

and seafood.

11. Nihari – Pakistan

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One very popular dish eaten as breakfast in Pakistan is Nihari. It is a stew made from beef shank and spices.

Nihari is known for its spiciness and taste.

12. Mansaf – Jordan

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Mansaf is popular dish in Jordan. It is a dish made of lamb cooked in a sauce of fermented dried yogurt and

served with rice that originated in Arabia. Today it has been adopted as the national dish of Jordan.

13. Menemen – Turkey

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Menemen is a dish commonly eaten for breakfast with bread. It includes egg, onion, tomato and green peppers

(paprika) and spices (such as ground black pepper, ground red pepper, salt, oregano, and mint). Turkish

sausages such as Sucuk or Pastırma and Black or Green olives can also be included as ingredients.

14. Cahn Chua – Vietnam

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This recipe, which literally means “sour soup”, is similar to Philippines’ “Sinigang”. It is a sour soup typically made

with fish from the Mekong River, pineapple, and tomatoes. Okra and bean sprout are also added. It is flavored

with tamarind broth and garnished with the lemony-scented herb ngo om (Limnophila aromatica), caramelized

garlic, and chopped scallions, as well as other herbs.

15. Kabsa – Saudi Arabia

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Kabsa is a very popular in Saudi Arabia. It is family of rice dishes that are served not only in Saudi but also in

other Arab states of the Persian Gulf. It is made from a mixture of spices, rice, meat and vegetables. There are

many kinds of Kabsa and each kind has uniqueness about it.

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Common Foods & Drinks Which Are Considered Taboo

It’s a common knowledge that pork is forbidden to the Jews, Muslims and other religious groups basically due to

traditional and religious beliefs that pigs are the most unclean animals. Here are some of the commonest foods

consumed by majority of the world’s population but are considered taboo for others.

Banana

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Bananas are very popular fruits from tropical regions of the world. It is tagged as a “complete food” by dieticians.

Sounds funny but for some people like Polynesians, the banana was traditionally taboo for women. In addition to

this, pregnant women are discouraged to eat twin bananas in the Philippines so that they will not bore twin babies.

Papaya

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Another vitamin-rich fruit of the tropics is the papaya but in some parts of China, the papaya can be taboo for

men. I presume, the reason for this is that – consuming or eating papaya will lessen their sexual desire because it

is believe by some that papaya is a coolant.

Spices

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Can you imagine the taste of foods cooked without spices? Spices make foods taste and smell better but to

Buddhist spices like garlic, Allium chinense, asafetida, shallot, and Allium victorialis (victory onion or mountain

leek) are forbidden.

Spicy Foods

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It's fine with me if foods are not spicy. Kashimiri Brahmins forbid strong flavored foods. They believe that garlic, onion, and spices such as black pepper and chili pepper’s pungent flavors on the tongue inflame the baser emotions.

Root Crops

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Living in a tropical area, many of our basic foods are root crops like camotes, potatoes, carrots, shallot to name a

few but in Jainism; any kind of roots are considered taboo, since the process of uprooting causes the organisms

associated with the root in the soil to die.

Lettuce and Butterbeans

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I love lettuce and I ocassionaly eat beans. In Yazidism (a Kurdish religion with ancient Indo-European roots and

most live in northern Iraq), the eating of lettuce and butterbeans is taboo. The Muslim religious teacher and

scholar, Falah Hassan Juma, links the sect’s belief of evil found in lettuce to its long history of persecution by

Muslims and Christians.

Beans

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The followers of Pythagoras were vegetarians (in fact “Pythagorean” at one time came to mean “vegetarian”),

however their creed prohibited the eating of beans. The reason is unclear: perhaps the flatulence they cause,

perhaps as protection from potential favism (a disorder characterized by a hemolytic reaction to consumption of

broad beans, with a name derived from the Italian name of the broad bean (fava)), but most likely for magico-

religious reasons

Coffee and Tea/Cola Drinks

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Millions of people drink coffee and tea from around the world but hot drinks are taboo for members of The Church

of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and some other Mormon groups. It is also a taboo for them to drink cola

drinks.

Coffee

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Likewise, coffee is also taboo for Rastafaians (a monotheistic, new religious movement that accepts Jesus Christ

and Haile Selassie I, the former Emperor of Ethiopia, as incarnations of God, called Jah or Jah Rastafari. Haile

Selassie is also seen as part of the Holy Trinity and as the returned messiah promised in the Bible).

Onion

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Another religious group that forbids the consumption of onion, one of the most popular spices use in the world,

are the members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Members abstain from all vegetables of

the onion family. They believe that these excite damaging passions. The spice asafoetida (hing) is used instead

of onion or garlic and provides a somewhat similar taste in their vegetarian cookery.

Beef

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Large quantity of the world food supply is from beef. I love steaks, and any food made from beef but Hinduism

forbids consumption of beef because cow is regarded as the holiest animal of all animals.

Shellfish, Lobsters, Shrimps and Others

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Judaism forbids the consumption of these creatures. Judaism has one of the longest lists of food taboos; these

include eel, catfish, crawfish and all fish with no fins and scales, amphibians, reptiles, rabbit, dog and many more.

So, it’s a common fact that certain foods are consume or eaten by others but not by some. In your place, are there foods considered taboo?

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