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Pad Thai
The real thing is sour, salty and only lightly sweet — a world away from the ketchup-orange version. Tamarind, palm…
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Birria Tacos
Jalisco's chilli-braised beef, shredded into tortillas that have been dipped in the scarlet fat from the braise…
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Authentic Guacamole
The Mexican original is made in a molcajete and contains no garlic, no cumin and no soured cream — just avocado…
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Dinner
Tacos al Pastor
Chilli-and-achiote-marinated pork, shaved off a vertical spit and served with pineapple, onion and coriander. This…
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Phở Bò (Beef Noodle Soup)
A clear, aromatic broth simmered for four hours with charred ginger and onion and a bundle of toasted spices, poured…
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Dinner
Thai Green Curry
Cracking the coconut cream until the oil separates, then frying the paste in it, is the step that turns a flat curry…
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Loaded Nachos
The real thing, not a pile of chips with sauce poured over: every chip laid out individually, each one bearing its…
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Dinner
Slow-Braised Carnitas
Pork shoulder braised in its own fat with orange and bay until it falls apart, then crisped under a hot grill so…
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Beef Rendang
Beef simmered in coconut milk and spice paste for four hours until the liquid has gone entirely and the meat fries…
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Thai Red Curry
Chicken and vegetables in a coconut curry built by cracking the cream, frying the paste in the separated oil, and…
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Caipirinha
Lime muddled with sugar in the glass, filled with cachaça and crushed ice, and stirred until the outside frosts…
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Classic Mojito
White rum, lime, sugar, soda and a great deal of mint, pressed rather than pulverised. Bruise the mint too hard and…
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Classic Margarita
Three ingredients in the right proportions, shaken hard and served over ice with a half-salted rim. No mixers, no…
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Dinner
Tandoori Chicken
A double marinade — first in lemon and salt, then in spiced yogurt — gets flavour deep into the meat before it hits…
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Quick Meals
Pad Kra Pao (Thai Basil Chicken)
Thailand's most-eaten dish: minced pork fried hard with garlic and chillies, tossed with holy basil, and served over…
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Dinner
Jamaican Jerk Chicken
Chicken marinated overnight in scotch bonnet, allspice and thyme, then cooked slowly over indirect heat until the…
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Lunch
Mission-Style Burrito
San Francisco's contribution to world food: a steamed flour tortilla wrapped around rice, beans, meat, cheese, salsa…
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Dinner
Hainanese Chicken Rice
A whole chicken poached gently and plunged into ice, with rice cooked in the poaching stock and rendered chicken…
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Desserts
Key Lime Pie
Sharp, silky lime custard in a buttery graham crust, set by nothing but the chemical reaction between lime juice and…
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Tom Yum Goong
The hot-and-sour prawn soup that defines Thai cooking: lemongrass, galangal and lime leaf simmered into a broth…
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Pisco Sour
Pisco, lime, sugar syrup and egg white shaken hard twice, poured over a fine foam and finished with three drops of…
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Dinner
Curry Laksa
Curry laksa: a coconut and spice paste soup with two kinds of noodle, prawns, tofu puffs and cockles, finished with…
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Baja Fish Tacos
Baja-style tacos with beer-battered white fish, a lime crema and shredded cabbage for crunch. Twenty minutes from…
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Piña Colada
Rum, coconut cream and pineapple blended with ice into something thick enough to stand a straw in. Puerto Rico's…
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Peruvian Ceviche
Firm white fish cured for ten minutes in lime juice with chilli, red onion and coriander, served immediately with…
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Elote — Mexican Street Corn
Charred corn slathered in crema and mayonnaise, rolled in salty cotija and dusted with chilli and lime. It is the…
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Khao Soi
Northern Thailand's coconut curry noodle soup, with soft egg noodles beneath and a nest of crisp fried ones on top…
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Breakfast
Arepas
Griddled corn cakes made from pre-cooked maize flour, split open and stuffed. Venezuelans and Colombians both claim…
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Misal Pav
Sprouted moth beans in a thin, fiery gravy, topped with farsan, raw onion and coriander, with a slick of red rassa…
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Tom Kha Gai
The gentler sibling of tom yum: coconut milk smooths the sourness into something creamy and fragrant, with chicken…
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Quick Meals
Fried Sweet Plantain
Very ripe plantain sliced on the diagonal and fried until the sugars caramelise into a dark crust around a soft…
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Dinner
Nihari
Beef shank stewed overnight in a spice-heavy gravy thickened with wheat flour, finished with ginger, chilli and…
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Beef Suya
Thin beef skewers coated in yaji, a spice mix built on ground peanuts, chilli and ginger, grilled over coals and…
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Cuban Sandwich
Roast pork, ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and mustard pressed in Cuban bread until the cheese melts and the crust…
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Dinner
Ghormeh Sabzi
The Persian herb stew: several bunches of herbs fried down almost to black, with lamb, kidney beans and dried limes…
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Colombian Empanadas
Corn dough shells filled with potato and shredded beef, deep fried until the outside is crackly and deep yellow…
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Thai Pineapple Fried Rice
Fried rice with pineapple, cashews and a curry-scented edge, served in the hollowed shell if you are feeling…
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Salt and Pepper Squid
Squid in a light cornflour crust, flash fried and tossed with chilli, garlic and toasted salt and pepper. A…
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Cochinita Pibil
Yucatán pork marinated in achiote and bitter orange, wrapped in banana leaves and cooked slowly until it falls into…
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Moqueca Baiana
Bahian fish stew of coconut milk, tomato, peppers and coriander, cooked in a clay pot and finished with dendê palm…
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Breakfast
Huevos Rancheros
Fried eggs on crisped tortillas under a warm, smoky ranchero sauce, with black beans and avocado. The Mexican…
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Larb Gai
Minced chicken tossed with toasted rice powder, lime, fish sauce and a great deal of mint and shallot. Isaan…
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Bún Chả
Hanoi's great lunch: charred pork patties and belly slices floating in a warm sweet-sour dipping broth, with cold…
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Kottu Roti
Godamba roti chopped on a hot griddle with vegetables, egg and curry, in a rhythm of metal blades that you can hear…
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Healthy
Som Tam (Green Papaya Salad)
Green papaya pounded with garlic, chilli, lime, palm sugar and fish sauce in a clay mortar. Bruising rather than…
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Dinner
Bún Bò Huế
Central Vietnam's spicy beef and pork noodle soup: a lemongrass and shrimp paste broth, thick round rice noodles…
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Michelada
Beer, lime, hot sauce and Worcestershire over ice in a chilli-salt-rimmed glass. Mexico's answer to the Bloody Mary…
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Dinner
Pancit Canton
Wheat noodles tossed with pork, prawns, chicken and vegetables in a soy and oyster sauce broth the noodles absorb as…
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Tinga Tostadas
Crisp fried tortillas topped with chicken tinga — shredded chicken in a smoky chipotle and tomato sauce — with…
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Cơm Tấm
Broken rice with a marinated grilled pork chop, shredded pork skin, a steamed egg meatloaf and a fried egg, all…
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Gado-Gado
Blanched and raw vegetables, tofu, tempeh and boiled egg under a warm peanut sauce, with prawn crackers on top…
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Aguachile
Raw prawns cured in minutes in lime juice blitzed with green chilli and coriander, layered with cucumber and red…
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Soto Ayam
Indonesian turmeric chicken soup with a fragrant spice paste, served over noodles and rice with sambal, fried…
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Bandeja Paisa
The Antioquian platter: beans, rice, chicharrón, chorizo, minced beef, a fried egg, plantain, avocado and an arepa…
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Nigerian Pepper Soup
A thin, fiercely hot broth built on a blend of West African spices, with goat, fish or chicken and almost nothing…
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Pozole Rojo
Mexico's celebratory hominy stew: pork simmered until tender in a brick-red guajillo broth, served with a table full…
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Causa Limeña
Cold layers of yellow potato mashed with lime and ají amarillo, packed around a chicken or crab filling and turned…
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Nyama Choma
Goat or beef rubbed with salt and grilled slowly over low coals for an hour or more, then chopped on a board and…
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Sambal Goreng Tempeh
Tempeh fried until crisp then tossed through a sweet-hot sambal of chilli, shallot and palm sugar until every piece…
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Drinks
Agua de Jamaica
Dried hibiscus steeped and sweetened into a deep crimson agua fresca — sharp, floral and served in a jug over ice on…
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Sobolo
The Ghanaian hibiscus drink, steeped with pineapple skin, ginger and cloves and drunk cold from a bottle on any hot…
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Kachumbari
Kenya’s everyday salad: tomato, onion and chilli with lime and coriander, salted and drained so it stays crisp…
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Chicken Quesadilla
A properly built quesadilla: cheese against the tortilla on both sides so it welds shut, filling in a thin layer…
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Dinner
Chicken Tortilla Soup
A brothy Mexican soup with real depth: dried chillies toasted and blended into the base, chicken poached in it and…
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Dinner
Corn on the Cob
Eight minutes in unsalted water with a spoonful of sugar, and butter that goes on while the cob is still steaming…
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Drinks
Nimbu Pani
Indian lemonade, with black salt and roasted cumin alongside the sugar. Savoury, sour and far more refreshing in…
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Healthy
Cuban Black Bean Soup
Dried beans, a sofrito built on cumin and green pepper, and a ham of smoke from nothing but paprika. Thick enough to…
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Healthy
Sweet Potato and Black Bean Tacos
Sweet potato roasted with chipotle until the edges char, black beans warmed with lime, and a quick pickled onion for…
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Healthy
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup
Squash roasted until it is caramelising at the edges before anything is blended, with the onions and garlic roasted…
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Quick Meals
Chilli Prawn Tacos
Prawns seared 90 seconds a side in a chilli and lime rub, with a crunchy cabbage slaw and a chipotle crema…
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Appetizers
Chana Chaat
Chickpeas tossed with raw onion, tomato, chaat masala and tamarind, assembled in ten minutes and eaten within…
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Dinner
Coconut Dal
Sri Lankan parippu: red lentils cooked soft in coconut milk with turmeric, finished with a tempering of mustard…
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Dinner
Pulled Jackfruit Tacos
Young green jackfruit shredded and cooked down in a chipotle and orange braise until the edges catch, which is where…
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Drinks
Asab
Sugarcane juice, pressed and drunk within minutes. Nothing is added and nothing can be — it oxidises so fast that…
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Desserts
Mango Pomelo Sago
Mango purée and sago pearls with pomelo segments stirred through, served very cold. Invented in Hong Kong in the…
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Dinner
Panang Curry
A thick, sweet red curry finished with kaffir lime and crushed peanuts. Drier than the other Thai curries, and richer.
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Thai Yellow Curry
The mildest of the Thai curries, yellow with turmeric and thick with potato. The one to cook for people who say they…
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Crying Tiger Beef
Grilled beef sliced across the grain and served with nam jim jaew, a roasted rice and chilli dipping sauce. The…
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Dinner
Phở Gà
Chicken pho: a clear broth of charred ginger and onion with poached chicken and flat rice noodles. Lighter than the…
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Dinner
Bò Kho
Beef shin stewed with lemongrass, star anise and annatto until it falls apart, with carrots cut thick. Eaten with…
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Chicken Fajitas
Marinated chicken and peppers cooked hard in a dry pan and brought to the table still spitting. The sizzle is the…
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Dinner
Carne Asada
Skirt steak in a lime and orange marinade, grilled fast over the fiercest heat and sliced across the grain. Twenty…
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Pico de Gallo
Tomato, onion, chilli, coriander and lime, chopped small and salted. Fifteen minutes, no cooking, and it improves…
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Salsa Verde
Tomatillos and green chilli charred under a grill and blitzed with coriander and lime. Twenty-five minutes and…
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Lunch
Sopa de Fideo
Thin noodles toasted golden in oil, then simmered in a tomato broth. Thirty minutes, and it is what Mexican children…
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Desserts
Arroz con Leche
Rice simmered slowly in milk with a cinnamon stick and a strip of lime peel. Forty-five minutes, mostly unattended.
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Dinner
Menudo
Tripe simmered three hours with hominy in a red chilli broth. Mexico's Sunday morning cure, and there is no fast…
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Quick Meals
Ground Beef Tacos
Minced beef cooked with real spices rather than a sachet, in corn tortillas with whatever you have. Twenty-five…
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Appetizers
Pol Sambol
Fresh coconut pounded with dried chilli, red onion and lime until it turns coral pink. Fifteen minutes and no cooking.
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Dinner
Chicken Inasal
Chicken marinated in calamansi, lemongrass and vinegar, then grilled under a constant basting of annatto oil.
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Appetizers
Sisig
Pork face and belly boiled, grilled, chopped fine and served on a plate hot enough to keep frying it at the table.
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Dinner
Ayam Goreng
Chicken simmered in turmeric and lemongrass, then fried, with the spiced poaching liquid fried alongside into crisp…
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Dinner
Jerk Pork
Pork shoulder in a scotch bonnet and allspice marinade, cooked slowly over smoke until the outside is black and the…
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Breakfast
Khai Jiao
A Thai omelette dropped into deep hot oil so it puffs and crisps at the edges. Thirteen minutes, and it goes on rice.
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Dinner
Pad Prik King
Green beans and pork stir-fried in red curry paste with no coconut milk at all. A dry curry, and thirty minutes.
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Lunch
Bún Riêu
A tomato and crab broth with floating clouds of crab and egg, over rice vermicelli. Sharper and lighter than phở.
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Lunch
Gỏi Gà
Poached chicken torn into shreds with cabbage, herbs and a sharp fish sauce dressing. Forty minutes, mostly cooling.
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Appetizers
Aloo Chaat
Potato cubes fried until the corners shatter, tossed with chaat masala, lime and coriander. Thirty minutes.
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Lunch
Sopa de Tortilla
A chilli and tomato broth with crisp tortilla strips added at the table so they keep their crunch. Forty-five minutes.
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Dinner
Camarones a la Diabla
Prawns in a red chilli sauce hot enough to justify the name, made from soaked guajillo and chipotle. Thirty-five…
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Appetizers
Esquites
Corn cut off the cob and fried, then dressed with mayonnaise, lime, chilli and cheese and eaten from a cup with a…
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Desserts
Paletas
Fresh fruit blended with a little sugar and lime and frozen in moulds. Fifteen minutes of work and no cooking.
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