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Asian food incorporates a few significant territorial cooking styles: Central Asian, East Asian, North Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and West Asian. A food is a trademark style of cooking practices and conventions, for the most part connected with a particular culture. Asia, being the biggest and most crowded mainland, is home to numerous societies, a large number of which have their own trademark cooking.
How to Cook Pinoy Beef Steak
Start to Finish: 20 minutes, plus marinating time
Servings: 4
Difficulty: BeginnerPinoy beef steak, also known as bistek tagalog, is a traditional beef and onion dish from the Philippines. It is a blend of salty and sour, and is…
How to Make Manchurian
Manchurian is a dish made with deep fried vegetable balls that are served with a vegetable gravy. It is considered Indo-Chinese cuisine, a food that was originally Chinese but has been manipulated to serve an Indian pallet.The Chinese…
How to Make Nasi Goreng
Start to Finish: 30 minutes
Servings: 4
Difficulty Level: IntermediateNasi goreng is the traditional fried rice served throughout Indonesia. From home kitchens to outdoor street stalls, nasi goreng is spicy, warming and hearty.It…
How to Make an Easy Filipino Cassava Cake
Cassava, also known as manioc or yucca, is a staple root vegetable found throughout Southeast Asia and Latin America. When made into a flour, the natural stickiness of the tuber makes for chewy, moist baked goods.Filipino cassava cake…
How to Make Oriental Dressing
Cooks who plunder the Oriental pantry to make a dressing will find clean, zesty ingredients to perk up the standard combination of acid and oil.Drizzled over salads or used as a dipping sauce, Oriental dressing can be hot and spicy or…
Bok Choy Cooking Instructions
A member of the cabbage family, bok choy is often found in Asian cuisine, especially Chinese dishes. High in water, cooking bok choy requires a light hand and brief heating.Overcooking this vegetable renders it soggy and inedible, but…
How to Cook Bangus
Bangus, also known as milkfish or bangos, is a fatty white-fleshed fish with a rich taste and smooth texture. The fish has many pin bones. These thin bones run from the backbone of the fish through the fillets to its belly.Widely used…
Filipino Batchoy Recipe (iloilo Style)
Start to Finish : 90 minutes
Servings : 4
Difficulty : IntermediateBatchoy is a dish that hails from the city of Iloilo in the Philippines. A hearty, garlicky soup, this dish uses a variety of pig offal, beef and round egg noodles,…
Beef Tapa Recipe
Beef tapa is the opposite of a thick, juice steak, but in a good way. Traditional tapa, a Filipino heritage food, is thinly sliced, salt-cured venison, beef or lamb, fried until crumbly. The salt-curing occurs by way of a soy-sauce-based…
How to Make Kinilaw
Filipino kinilaw is analogous to South American ceviche and European rollmops; it's also a dish based on fresh seafood cured in food acid. Kinilaw na tuna, and its oyster-based variation, kilawing talabem, are quick-cured dishes that use…