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Katsu Curry
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Tonkotsu Ramen
The milky, collagen-heavy pork broth that made Hakata famous, boiled hard for eight hours until the fat and gelatine…
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Egg Fried Rice
The test of any wok cook: separate grains, wisps of egg through every mouthful, and that faint smoky note from the…
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Korean Fried Chicken
Double-fried until the crust is glassy and stays crisp under the sauce, then glazed in sticky sweet-hot gochujang…
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Orange Chicken
The most ordered dish in American Chinese restaurants: craggy fried chicken tossed in a bright, sticky sauce built…
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Chicken Katsu Curry
Japan's favourite comfort food: a panko-crusted chicken cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with a thick, gently…
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Chicken Karaage
Japan's definitive fried chicken: thigh meat marinated in soy, sake and ginger, dusted in potato starch and fried…
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Steamed Pork Dumplings
Juicy jiaozi with a hand-rolled wrapper thick at the centre and thin at the edge — the shape that stops the base…
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Dinner
Kung Pao Chicken
Sichuan's most travelled dish, done properly: velveted chicken, blistered dried chillies, the numbing buzz of…
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Bibimbap
A bowl of rice topped with individually seasoned vegetables, marinated beef, a fried egg and gochujang, mixed…
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Miso Ramen
Sapporo-style ramen: a miso tare whisked into rich pork or chicken broth, stir-fried pork and vegetables piled on…
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Beef and Broccoli
The most useful stir-fry in the repertoire: velveted beef, crisp-tender broccoli and a savoury oyster sauce gravy…
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Beef Bulgogi
Thinly sliced beef marinated in soy, pear and sesame, then seared fast so it caramelises without stewing. Twenty…
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Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup
Taiwanese braised beef noodle soup: shin and tendon cooked for hours in a broth built on soy, doubanjiang and…
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General Tso's Chicken
The Chinese-American classic: crackling battered chicken in a sticky, tangy, faintly sweet sauce with a lick of…
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Chicken Teriyaki
Real teriyaki is a technique, not a bottled sauce: chicken pan-fried until the skin crackles, then glazed in a…
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Swedish Meatballs
Small, tender meatballs in a creamy pan gravy, served with lingonberry jam and mashed potato. The bread-and-cream…
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Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry
The dish every Chinese household cooks and no restaurant bothers to: eggs scrambled soft, tomatoes cooked down to a…
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Chicken Adobo
Chicken braised in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic and bay until the sauce reduces to a dark glaze. The Philippines'…
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Ahi Poke Bowl
Cubed raw tuna dressed in soy, sesame and sweet onion over rice. Hawaiian in origin and Japanese in influence, and…
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Sweet and Sour Pork
Cantonese gu lou yuk with a genuinely crisp coating and a sauce balanced by real pineapple and rice vinegar rather…
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Sesame Chicken
Orange chicken's darker, nuttier sibling: the same shattering fried crust in a soy and honey glaze thickened with…
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Pork Gyoza
Pan-fried pork dumplings with a lacy crisp base and a juicy, cabbage-sweet filling. The steam-fry technique gives…
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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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Bánh Mì
A crackling baguette filled with pâté, mayonnaise, cold cuts or grilled pork, pickled carrot and daikon, cucumber…
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Jamaican Jerk Chicken
Chicken marinated overnight in scotch bonnet, allspice and thyme, then cooked slowly over indirect heat until the…
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Nasi Goreng
Indonesian fried rice built on kecap manis and terasi, topped with a fried egg and prawn crackers. Every household…
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Chicken Lo Mein
Soft egg noodles tossed rather than fried, coated in a glossy soy and oyster sauce with chicken and crisp…
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Wonton Noodle Soup
Prawn and pork wontons in a clear, dried-flounder broth with springy thin egg noodles. Cantonese, and the noodles go…
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Chicken Chow Mein
Springy egg noodles tossed with chicken and vegetables in a savoury brown sauce, with a few noodles crisped against…
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Scallion Pancakes
Layered flatbreads made from a hot-water dough, rolled with oil and spring onion, coiled and flattened so they fry…
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Crispy Spring Rolls
Shatteringly crisp vegetable spring rolls with a filling that stays crunchy inside the wrapper. Cooling the filling…
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Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken
Marinated chicken chunks coated in sweet potato starch, fried twice, and tossed with salt, white pepper and fried…
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Xiao Long Bao
Shanghai soup dumplings: pleated parcels holding pork and a mouthful of hot broth, created by folding chilled aspic…
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Kimbap
Seasoned rice and a row of cooked fillings rolled in seaweed, brushed with sesame oil and cut into coins. Korea's…
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Yakisoba
Wheat noodles fried on a griddle with cabbage, pork and a thick fruity brown sauce, finished with aonori, bonito…
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Dinner
Mapo Tofu
Silken tofu in a fierce, oily red sauce of fermented broad bean paste, minced pork and Sichuan peppercorn. Fifteen…
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Oyakodon
Chicken and egg over rice — the name means "parent and child" — simmered together in a sweet-savoury dashi until the…
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Galbi (Korean Short Ribs)
Beef short ribs butterflied thin, marinated in soy, pear and sesame, and grilled over fire until the sugars char…
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Tteokbokki
Chewy rice cakes simmered in a sweet-hot gochujang sauce until it clings. Korea's favourite street snack, and it…
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Lomo Saltado
Peru's great fusion dish: beef stir-fried in a wok with onion, tomato and soy sauce, served with both chips and…
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California Roll
The inside-out roll that introduced the West to sushi: crab, avocado and cucumber wrapped in seasoned rice and…
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Pad See Ew
Wide rice noodles charred in a screaming wok with dark soy, egg and Chinese broccoli. The dish is defined by wok…
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Red-Braised Pork Belly
Red-braised pork belly: cubes of belly caramelised in melted rock sugar, then braised in soy and Shaoxing wine until…
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Sundubu Jjigae
Silken tofu stew, arriving at the table in a stone pot still boiling violently, with a raw egg cracked in at the…
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Char Siu Pork
Cantonese barbecue pork with a sticky, deeply burnished glaze and rings of red at the edge. It takes forty minutes…
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Lu Rou Fan
Finely diced pork belly braised in soy, five spice and fried shallots until it becomes a glossy, gelatinous sauce…
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Gyudon
Thinly sliced beef and onion simmered for four minutes in dashi, soy and mirin, then tipped over rice. Japan's…
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Wonton Soup
Silky wontons with a prawn and pork filling floating in a clear, restorative broth. The wrappers are so thin they…
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Singapore Noodles
Thin rice vermicelli stained yellow with curry powder, tossed with prawns, char siu and egg. Despite the name it is…
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Dan Dan Noodles
Chengdu street noodles: a pool of chilli oil, sesame paste and black vinegar at the bottom of the bowl, topped with…
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Beef Chow Fun
Wide rice noodles seared in a smoking wok with velveted beef, beansprouts and chives. Judged on wok hei and on…
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Japchae
Chewy sweet potato noodles tossed with individually stir-fried vegetables and a sesame-soy dressing. Naturally…
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Char Siu Bao
Cantonese steamed barbecue pork buns: a snow-white, faintly sweet dough that bursts open at the top to reveal sticky…
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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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Tamagoyaki
Sweet rolled omelette built from a dozen thin layers, cooked in a rectangular pan and rolled onto itself again and…
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Char Kway Teow
Flat rice noodles fried at ferocious heat with prawns, Chinese sausage, cockles, egg and chives. Judged entirely on…
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Hot and Sour Soup
Sharp with black vinegar, hot with white pepper rather than chilli, and thickened to that distinctive silky body…
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Sukiyaki
A hot pot cooked at the table: thin beef seared in a heavy iron pan, then simmered in a sweet soy warishita with…
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Dakgalbi
Chicken and cabbage stir-fried at the table in a gochujang marinade on a huge flat pan, with rice cakes and sweet…
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Crispy Vegetable Tempura
Tempura batter should be lumpy, ice-cold and barely mixed — everything you would consider wrong in any other batter…
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Xinjiang Cumin Lamb
Xinjiang's signature: lamb seared hard in a smoking wok with whole cumin seed, chilli flakes and nothing much else…
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Yakitori Chicken Skewers
Charcoal-grilled chicken skewers lacquered in a tare that gets richer every time you use it. The Japanese izakaya…
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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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Lechon Kawali
Pork belly simmered until tender, dried overnight in the fridge and then deep fried so the skin blisters into…
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Haemul Pajeon
A large, shaggy pancake of spring onions and seafood, fried until the edges are lacy and crisp. Eaten on rainy days…
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Mapo Eggplant
Aubergine fried until it collapses, then simmered in doubanjiang, garlic and Sichuan pepper. The vegetarian cousin…
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Pork Shogayaki
Thin pork loin fried fast and finished in a ginger, soy and mirin sauce that reduces to a glaze in under a minute…
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Twice-Cooked Pork
Sichuan's huiguorou: pork belly simmered whole, cooled, sliced paper-thin and returned to a searing wok with…
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Takoyaki
Osaka's street-food icon: molten batter spheres with a nugget of octopus at the centre, turned with a skewer in a…
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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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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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Breakfast
Loco Moco
Rice, a hamburger patty, brown gravy and a fried egg, stacked in that order. Hawaii's answer to a plate lunch, and…
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Breakfast
Century Egg Congee
Rice cooked in eight times its volume of stock until the grains collapse into a silken porridge, served with century…
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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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Kake Udon Noodle Soup
Thick, bouncy udon in a clear kake broth of dashi, soy and mirin — restorative, restrained and on the table in…
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Zaru Soba
Buckwheat noodles rinsed in ice water and served cold on a bamboo mat with a small cup of concentrated dipping…
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Peking Duck
Lacquered, glass-crisp skin carved off a duck that has been air-dried for a full day, wrapped in thin pancakes with…
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Unagi Don
Grilled freshwater eel lacquered in a sweet soy tare, laid over rice with more tare spooned across. Eaten in the…
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Shui Zhu Fish
White fish poached in a chilli and Sichuan pepper broth, buried under dried chillies and garlic, and finished by…
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Mul Naengmyeon
Chewy buckwheat noodles in an icy beef and radish broth, with pear, cucumber, sliced beef and half a boiled egg. The…
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Dinner
Buta no Kakuni
Pork belly simmered for two and a half hours in dashi, soy and sake until a chopstick passes through it without…
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Agedashi Tofu
Silken tofu dusted in potato starch, deep fried until the outside is a thin crackling shell, and served in warm…
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Nikujaga
Beef and potatoes simmered in dashi, soy and mirin until the potatoes have soaked up the broth and started to fall…
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Dinner
Lion's Head Meatballs
Enormous pork meatballs braised in a light broth with cabbage, so tender they barely hold together. From Huaiyang…
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Chawanmushi
A savoury egg custard steamed in a lidded cup, holding prawn, chicken and ginkgo nuts suspended in a set so delicate…
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Tofu and Edamame Stir-Fry
Firm tofu pressed, cornflour-crusted and fried hard, then tossed with edamame and greens in a garlic-ginger sauce…
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Dinner
Chicken Cauliflower Fried Rice
Cauliflower blitzed to rice grains and fried hard with chicken thigh, egg and spring onion — the wok dish without…
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Kaya Toast
Charcoal-toasted white bread with a slab of cold butter and coconut-pandan jam, eaten with soft-boiled eggs seasoned…
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Gomae
Blanched spinach squeezed dry and dressed in a sweet-savoury sesame paste ground in a mortar — the Japanese side…
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Oi Muchim
Korean cucumber salad: sliced, salted, squeezed and tossed with gochugaru, garlic and sesame — sharp, hot and…
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Honey Garlic Chicken
Chicken thighs seared hard and glazed in a four-ingredient sauce that reduces to a lacquer in the time it takes to…
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Holiday Specials
Green Bean Casserole
The Thanksgiving standard rebuilt from ingredients rather than tins: a real mushroom velouté, blanched beans that…
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Sesame Peanut Noodles
Cold noodles in a peanut, sesame and black vinegar sauce, thinned with hot noodle water so it coats instead of…
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Black Pepper Beef
Velveted beef seared hard with peppers and onion in a sauce built on a great deal of coarsely cracked black pepper…
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Garlic Mushroom Toast
Mushrooms cooked hard in a dry pan until they squeak and brown before any fat goes in, then finished with garlic…
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Scallion Oil Noodles
Shanghai’s cong you ban mian: spring onions fried slowly in oil until they are dark and brittle, the oil they leave…
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Dinner
Kjøttkaker
Norwegian meat cakes: coarse beef bound with potato starch and milk, fried and then simmered in their own brown…
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Lunch
Australian Meat Pie
A shortcrust base and a puff lid over a thick, dark beef filling that has been cooked and then cooled before it goes…
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Spam Musubi
A slab of glazed Spam on a block of sushi rice, wrapped in nori. Hawaii's most-eaten snack, sold from every petrol…
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Dinner
Lentil Shepherd's Pie
Brown lentils and mushrooms cooked down with red wine and Marmite into something dark enough to carry a mash lid…
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Mushroom Stroganoff
Mushrooms browned hard in three batches, then a paprika and mustard sauce finished with cashew cream. The sourness…
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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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Dinner
Tofu Katsu Curry
Firm tofu pressed, crumbed in panko and baked crisp, over a proper katsu sauce built from onions cooked down for…
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Siu Mai
Open-topped pork and prawn dumplings in a yellow wrapper, finished with a dot of roe. The other half of the dim sum…
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Cheung Fun
Sheets of rice batter steamed on a tray, rolled around prawns or beef and dressed in sweetened soy. The most…
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Lunch
Lo Mai Gai
Sticky rice packed around chicken, sausage and mushroom in a lotus leaf and steamed until the leaf perfumes the…
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Chicken Feet in Black Bean Sauce
Chicken feet deep-fried, soaked until they puff, then braised in black bean and steamed. Three stages, two days, and…
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Sheng Jian Bao
Shanghai buns with a crisp fried base and soup inside, cooked base-down in a covered pan and finished with sesame…
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Lunch
Rou Jia Mo
Chopped braised pork packed into a flatbread baked on a griddle. Xi'an has sold it for two thousand years and calls…
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Lunch
Liangpi
Cold wheat noodles made by washing the starch out of a dough, steamed into sheets and cut into wide slippery ribbons…
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Smashed Cucumber Salad
Cucumber hit with the flat of a cleaver until it splits, salted, drained and dressed in garlic and vinegar. Fifteen…
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Bang Bang Chicken
Poached chicken torn into shreds under a sesame and chilli sauce. Named for the stick used to beat the meat loose…
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Century Egg with Cold Tofu
Century eggs on cold silken tofu with soy, chilli oil and a great deal of coriander. Assembly only, five minutes…
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Appetizers
Red Oil Wontons
Pork wontons under a slick of red chilli oil, black vinegar and garlic. Sichuan's answer to the soup version, and…
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Marbled Tea Eggs
Hard-boiled eggs cracked all over and simmered in tea, soy and star anise until the shell pattern shows through as…
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Dinner
Dongpo Rou
Squares of pork belly tied with string and braised in Shaoxing wine and soy for three hours, until the fat is…
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Dinner
Yuxiang Rousi
Shredded pork in a sweet, sour and hot sauce that contains no fish at all — the name refers to the seasonings…
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Dinner
La Zi Ji
Fried chicken pieces buried in a wok of dried chillies and Sichuan pepper, from which you hunt out the chicken…
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Dinner
Duo Jiao Yu Tou
A split fish head steamed under a mound of chopped salted red chillies. Hunan's signature, and it uses fresh pickled…
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Dinner
Beggar's Chicken
A whole chicken wrapped in lotus leaves, sealed in clay and baked for three hours, then broken open at the table…
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Dinner
Soy Sauce Chicken
A whole chicken poached in a dark soy master stock until the skin is mahogany and glossy. The stock is kept and…
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Dinner
Three Cup Chicken
Chicken cooked down in equal parts sesame oil, soy sauce and rice wine until the sauce is a glaze, with a great…
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Dinner
Da Pan Ji
Chicken, potatoes and peppers stewed with beer and chilli in one enormous plate, with wide hand-pulled noodles slid…
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Dinner
Braised Beef Brisket
Brisket and daikon braised for three hours in a chu hou and bean paste sauce until the tendon has gone to jelly. The…
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Dinner
Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs
Short ribs braised in Chinkiang vinegar and rock sugar until the sauce reduces to a lacquer. Shanghai, and it is…
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Dinner
Steamed Ribs with Black Bean
Bite-sized ribs marinated with fermented black beans and garlic, steamed for twenty-five minutes on a plate. Easier…
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Dinner
Mei Cai Kou Rou
Pork belly fried, sliced, packed face-down over preserved mustard greens and steamed for two hours, then turned out…
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Dinner
Ginger and Scallion Crab
Whole crab chopped through the shell, dusted in cornflour, flash-fried and tossed with a mountain of ginger and…
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Dinner
Steamed Whole Fish
A whole fish steamed for twelve minutes and finished with smoking oil poured over raw ginger and spring onion. The…
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Dinner
Dry-Fried Green Beans
Green beans fried until their skins blister and wrinkle, then tossed with minced pork, preserved vegetable and…
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Dinner
Di San Xian
Potato, aubergine and green pepper each fried separately then brought together in a garlicky sauce. Dongbei, and the…
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Dinner
Choy Sum in Oyster Sauce
Choy sum blanched in oiled salted water and dressed in warmed oyster sauce. Three minutes, and the oil in the water…
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Dinner
Home-Style Tofu
Tofu triangles fried until golden and puffed, then braised with pork and doubanjiang. What Sichuan households cook…
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Dinner
Yong Tau Foo
Tofu, peppers, aubergine and chillies stuffed with a fish and pork paste, fried and then simmered in a clear soup…
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Lunch
Hot Dry Noodles
Wuhan's breakfast: alkaline noodles blanched, oiled, cooled and then reheated to order under sesame paste, pickled…
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Lunch
Biang Biang Noodles
Belt-wide noodles pulled by hand and slapped on the counter, under chilli, garlic and a ladle of smoking oil. Named…
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Dinner
Yangzhou Fried Rice
Fried rice with prawns, char siu and egg, where every grain is separate and coated in yolk. The version everything…
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Dinner
Claypot Rice
Rice cooked in a clay pot with sausage and chicken laid on top, until a crisp golden crust forms on the base that…
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Lunch
Zongzi
Glutinous rice packed with pork belly and salted egg yolk into a bamboo-leaf pyramid, tied with string and boiled…
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Dinner
Vinegar Cabbage
Cabbage torn by hand rather than cut, fried hard with dried chilli and finished with black vinegar. Five minutes…
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Dinner
Stir-Fried Lotus Root
Lotus root sliced thin, rinsed of its starch and fried for barely two minutes, so it stays as crisp as an apple.
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Appetizers
Wood Ear Salad
Rehydrated wood ear fungus in black vinegar, garlic and chilli oil. Almost no calories, no cooking to speak of, and…
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Dinner
Hot and Sour Potato Slivers
Potato cut into matchsticks, rinsed of starch and fried for ninety seconds so it stays crunchy. Sour, hot, and…
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Lunch
West Lake Beef Soup
A thick clear soup of minced beef and egg white with a great deal of coriander. Hangzhou, and it takes twenty…
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Lunch
Egg Drop Soup
Stock thickened lightly and finished with beaten egg poured in a thread so it sets into ribbons. Ten minutes, four…
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Appetizers
XO Sauce
Dried scallop and shrimp shredded and fried with chilli, ham and garlic until crisp. Invented in a Hong Kong hotel…
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Appetizers
Chilli Paneer
Battered paneer tossed with peppers and onion in a dark, glossy soy and chilli sauce. Indo-Chinese, and the one…
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Appetizers
Gobi Manchurian
Cauliflower fried in a spiced batter and tossed in a dark garlic and soy sauce. Kolkata Hakka cooking, and the dish…
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Dinner
Hakka Noodles
Egg noodles tossed with shredded vegetables over a high flame. The Indian Chinese restaurant staple, and fifteen…
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Dinner
Schezwan Fried Rice
Fried rice with a spoonful of red schezwan sauce through it. Nothing to do with Sichuan, everything to do with the…
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Appetizers
Chicken Lollipop
Chicken wings frenched into a lollipop, battered red and fried. Bar food across India, and the reason wing drumettes…
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Appetizers
Vegetable Momos
Pleated Himalayan dumplings of finely chopped cabbage and carrot, steamed and eaten with a fiery tomato chutney.
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Dinner
Budae Jjigae
Army base stew: kimchi, gochujang, sausage, tinned meat and instant noodles in one bubbling pan. Invented from…
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Lunch
Onigiri
Rice pressed round a filling and wrapped in a band of nori. Japan's packed lunch, and the reason convenience stores…
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Dinner
Shoyu Ramen
A clear chicken broth seasoned with a soy tare, with chashu pork, a marinated egg and thin curled noodles. The…
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Dinner
Japanese Curry Roux
Flour and butter cooked slowly to a nutty brown and spiced. Make it once and the shop-bought blocks stop being…
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Appetizers
Moo Ping
Pork shoulder marinated in coconut milk and white pepper, threaded on bamboo and grilled over charcoal. Bangkok…
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Quick Meals
Pad Woon Sen
Glass noodles tossed with egg, prawns and vegetables in a light soy dressing. Twenty-seven minutes and lighter than…
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Lunch
Bún Thịt Nướng
Grilled lemongrass pork over cold rice vermicelli with herbs, pickle and nuoc cham poured over. A hot and cold bowl…
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Quick Meals
Vegetable Stir-Fry
Whatever is in the fridge, cut evenly and cooked hard for four minutes in a sauce that clings. Twenty-five minutes…
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Appetizers
Lumpiang Shanghai
Thin pork and vegetable spring rolls, rolled pencil-thin and fried hard. Filipino parties are counted in these.
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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
Hokkien Mee
Thick yellow noodles braised in dark soy with prawns, pork and cabbage until the sauce coats every strand. Kuala…
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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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Dinner
Tteok Galbi
Short rib meat taken off the bone, chopped, seasoned and shaped back onto it, then grilled with a soy and pear glaze.
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Dinner
Dubu Jorim
Tofu slabs pan-fried until golden, then braised in soy and chilli until the sauce has almost gone. Thirty minutes.
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Dinner
Ojingeo Bokkeum
Squid scored, cut and stir-fried in gochujang with onion and courgette. Thirty-five minutes, and the squid cooks in…
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Lunch
Zosui
Rice simmered in dashi with egg stirred through. Thirty minutes, and what Japanese households make from yesterday's…
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Dinner
Katsudon
A pork cutlet simmered for ninety seconds in dashi and onion with egg poured over, slid onto rice. Forty minutes.
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Appetizers
Hiyayakko
Cold tofu with ginger, spring onion and soy. Ten minutes, four ingredients, and it depends entirely on the tofu.
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Lunch
French Dip
Thin roast beef in a roll with a cup of the roasting juices to dip it in. Forty-five minutes, and the jus is the…
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