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The Burmese yellow split-pea fritter, sold by street vendors in hot oil-spattered cones of newspaper across Yangon's evening markets
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The Burmese yellow split-pea fritter, sold by street vendors in hot oil-spattered cones of newspaper across Yangon's evening markets

This dish works best with raw beef that has been sliced paper thin, as it cooks in seconds when placed in the hot broth

The celebration-day Bengali fish curry, the one you cook for a Saraswati Puja lunch or a weekend when family are visiting

A fragrant Malaysian noodle soup combining shellfish with a spicy coconut curry broth, rice noodles, and fresh herbs

Goan fish curry is the dish that turns up at every Goan family lunch, a sharply acidic, deeply red coconut curry that…

Goan prawn pulao is the green-flavoured rice dish that uses a fresh herb masala instead of the more typical brown spice…

Poached chicken is shredded and tossed with finely shredded cabbage, carrot and onion that has been softened in a light vinegar bath

Pork belly is simmered until tender, prawns are poached briefly, and vermicelli is cooked just al dente

A Burmese aubergine dish, the kind of thing that turns up on a weekday table next to a simple curry and rice

A masala paste of shallot, ginger, garlic and red chilli is bloomed in coconut oil with mustard seeds, fenugreek and curry leaves

Firm white fish is scored, rubbed with a spice paste of ginger-garlic, Kashmiri chilli, ajwain (carom), turmeric and…

Machher jhol is the everyday fish curry of Bengal, eaten with steamed rice almost daily in households on both sides of the border

A two-part dish: a deeply concentrated prawn-and-chicken stock built from roasted prawn shells, layered with a freshly…

Myanmar's national breakfast, the rice-noodle soup that streetcorner stalls in every city open before dawn for

The Burmese fish cakes that arrive at lahpet-thoke salad tables and street snack stalls alike, bright with lime and curry leaf

Cari ourite is the dish that turns up at every Mauritian fisherman's Sunday lunch, and at every Creole restaurant on the south coast