Asian cuisine - 564 cooking recipes

When they talk about Asian cuisine, they mean a general concept that includes the cuisines of countries such as Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, as well as all the countries of Central Asia. That is, it is not so much a geographical location as the belonging of the local residents to a certain race. And, let’s say, Afghan cuisine is not considered Asian, but rather Arabic. And Turkish will be eastern.

A huge number of Asian recipes differ from each other in many ways. For example, Japanese tends towards greater balance, low use of fats, plenty of fish and rice. But the Kazakh, on the contrary, loves hearty, fatty dishes with a lot of meat: beef, lamb, etc. In Muslim countries there are no recipes with pork - there this meat is considered dirty. But the Chinese actively use this product in their dishes.

This means that there are no specific guidelines by which an Asian dish can be distinguished. It will be necessary to talk about the culinary preferences of a particular country. Thai and Korean cuisines love hot spices - the same can be said about Chinese. In Japan, they love rice - they prepare not only first and second courses with it, but also desserts and alcoholic drinks.

Perhaps we can say that Asian cuisine has a weakness for thick soups: they are eaten in all of the listed countries. Only in each of them they are called differently: lagman, romaine, tom yum, danhuatan, kugigugse, pho. And many first courses include a certain type of noodles: some are homemade, wide and flat, some are rice or egg, round, glass.

An incomplete list of countries (republics, regions) whose cuisines are usually classified as generalized Asian:

Afghanistan, Buryatia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Tibet, Tuva, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan