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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.

  Terminology

In the United Kingdom, "Asian cuisine" most often refers to South Asian cuisine, while in the United States and Australia it usually refers to East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) and Southeast Asian cuisine, in addition to 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 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

  Central Asia

  Uzbek palov (pilaf)

• Afghan cuisine
• Kazakh cuisine
• Kyrgyz cuisine
• Tajik cuisine
• Turkmen cuisine
• Uzbek cuisine

  East Asia

  Peking Duck, a kind of national food in China

  Japanese sushi platter

  Tibetan momos served in a tomato-based broth

• Chinese cuisine
  • Cantonese cuisine(Yue cuisine)
    • Chaozhou cuisine
    • Hong Kong cuisine
    • Macanese cuisine
  • Jiangsu cuisine
    • Huaiyang cuisine
      • Shanghai cuisine
  • Shandong cuisine(Lu cuisine)
    • Beijing cuisine
    • Tianjin cuisine
  • Szechuan cuisine
  • Anhui cuisine
  • Fujian cuisine
  • Hunan cuisine(Xiang cuisine)
  • Zhejiang cuisine
  • Hakka cuisine
  • Taiwanese cuisine
  • Guizhou cuisine
  • Hainan cuisine
  • Henan cuisine
  • Hubei cuisine
  • Jiangxi cuisine
  • Northeastern Chinese cuisine
  • Shaanxi cuisine
  • Shanxi cuisine
  • Tibetan cuisine
  • Uyghur cuisine
  • Yunnan cuisine

• Japanese cuisine
  • Ainu cuisine
  • Okinawan cuisine
• Korean cuisine
• Mongolian cuisine

  North Asia

• Russian cuisine

  South Asia

  South Indian dosa

  Chicken tikka, popular in India

  Hoppers from Sri Lanka

  Persian chelow kabab, from Iran

• Bangladeshi cuisine
  • Bengali cuisine
• Bhutanese cuisine
• Indian cuisine
  • Andhra cuisine
  • Assamese cuisine
  • Bengali cuisine
  • Goan cuisine
  • Gujarati cuisine
  • Hyderabadi cuisine
  • Karnataka cuisine
  • Kerala cuisine
  • Marathi cuisine
  • Oriya cuisine
  • Parsi cuisine
  • Punjabi cuisine
  • Rajasthani cuisine
  • Sikkimese cuisine
  • Tamil cuisine
  • Awadhi cuisine
  • Kashmiri cuisine
• Maldivian cuisine
• Nepali cuisine
  • Newari cuisine
• Pakistani cuisine
  • Baloch cuisine
  • Sindhi cuisine
  • Punjabi cuisine
• Sri Lankan cuisine
  • Tamil cuisine

  Southeast Asia

  Ponorogo chicken satay from Indonesia, satay also popular across Southeast Asia

  Tom yum soup from Thailand

  Lebanese-style Hummus

  İskender kebap from Turkey

• Burmese cuisine
• Cambodian cuisine
• Indonesian cuisine

• Javanese cuisine
• Minangkabau cuisine
• Sundanese cuisine
• Chinese Indonesian cuisine

• Lao cuisine
• Malay cuisine
• Malaysian cuisine
• Peranakan cuisine
• Philippine cuisine
• Singaporean cuisine
• Thai cuisine
• Vietnamese cuisine

  Western Asia

• Armenian cuisine
• Assyrian cuisine
• Azerbaijani cuisine
• Bahraini cuisine
• Cypriot cuisine
• Georgian cuisine
• Iranian cuisine
• Iraqi cuisine
• Israeli cuisine
  • Jewish cuisine
• Kurdish cuisine
• Kuwaiti cuisine
• Lebanese cuisine
• Omani cuisine
• Palestinian cuisine
• Saudi Arabian cuisine
• Syrian cuisine
• Turkish cuisine
• Yemeni cuisine

  See also

	Food portal
	Asia portal

• Arab cuisine of the Persian Gulf
• Caucasian cuisine
• Fusion cuisine
• Mediterranean cuisine

  References

• Solomon, Charmaine; Solomon, Nina (2010.) "Encyclopedia of Asian Food." New Holland Publishers. ISBN 1-74257-009-7
• Trang, Corinne (2003.) "Essentials of Asian cuisine: fundamentals and favorite recipes." Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-0312-7
• Brissenden, Rosemary (2003.) "Southeast Asian Food: Classic and Modern Dishes from Indonesia, Malaysia." Penguin Books. ISBN 0-7946-0488-9

  External links

• Asian Food & Recipes at AsiaSociety.org