Asian Cuisine

Asian Cuisine

Asian cuisine styles can be broken down into several regional styles that have roots in 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 derived the states that once made up British India – Burma, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan as well as several other countries in this region of the continent; Central Asian and Middle Eastern.

MAJOR REGIONAL CUISINES

North Asia

  1. Russian Federation

East Asia

  1. China
  2. Japan
  3. North Korea
  4. South Korea
  5. Mongolia
  6. Taiwan
  7. Hong Kong
  8. Macau

Southeast Asia

  1. Brunei
  2. Cambodia
  3. East Timor
  4. Indonesia
  5. Laos
  6. Malaysia
  7. Myanmar
  8. Philippines
  9. Singapore
  10. Thailand
  11. Vietnam

Central Asia

  1. Turkmenistan
  2. Tajikistan
  3. Kazakhstan
  4. Kyrgyzstan
  5. Uzbekistan

Southwest Asia

  1. Afghanistan
  2. Azerbaijan
  3. Georgia
  4. Iran

Indian Subcontinent

  1. India
  2. Pakistan
  3. Bangladesh
  4. Sri Lanka
  5. Tibet
  6. Bhutan
  7. Nepal
  8. Maldives
  9. British Indian Ocean Territory

Middle East

  1. Egypt
  2. Syria
  3. Lebanon
  4. Jordan
  5. Israel
  6. Palestine
  7. Iraq
  8. Cyprus
  9. Turkey
  10. Saudi Arabia

Arabian Peninsula

  1. Kuwait
  2. Oman
  3. Qatar
  4. United Arab Emirates
  5. Yemen
  6. Bahrain
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