Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Top 10 Most Popular Asian Dishes

1. Satay is meat roasted on a stick. The meat is usually chicken, beef, liver, heart, frogs or bugs. It can also be fish. It usually comes with peanut sauce and sticky, onions, and cucumbers.
2. Sushi is made up of rice, seaweed wrappers and soy sauce along with the raw fish. Rolling sushi is nearly an art form.
3. Chicken curry Asian style has coconut, saffron and ginger together with the curry.
4. Tom Yum is a watery dish that is served as a soup or main course and generally flavored with lemon grass, tamarind and lime. Occasionally it includes fish or mushrooms.
5. Fried rice is typically left over white rice fried with soy sauce and other flavors and tastes.
6. Dim Sum are little things steamed, filled, spicy, sweet, sour, and usually tasty.
7. Vietnamese spring rolls are pastries filled meats or vegetables and fried.
8. Hainanese chicken rice is plain boiled chicken served with white rice and cucumber, eggs or lettuce on the side. It is not spicy which is unusual but is usually accompanied by chili, sweet soya or ginger.
9. Laksa, a spicy noodle soup, is made with sweet and sour flavors. It might be thin or thick. Commonly the ingredients consist of thick noodles, coconut-based curry sauce, tofu, fish, shrimp and bean sprouts.
10. Fish balls are served cooked, fried or steamed and commonly eaten alone having been marinated, with a sauce, vinegar, soy sauce or garlic. At times they're mixed in a bowl with noodles, tofu or rice.