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Cambodia's national dish, the centrepiece of any Khmer feast and the proper-occasion food across the country
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Cambodia's national dish, the centrepiece of any Khmer feast and the proper-occasion food across the country

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A Caribbean-Southern crossover that works because both traditions cook in a similar register: butter, peppers, alliums…

The older, more ceremonial form of lahpet, the version that predates the salad

A cataplana is a hinged copper clamshell pan, and the seafood stew named after it is one of those dishes where the cookware does the work

A pork and prawn filling is bound with shredded carrot, glass noodles and reconstituted wood-ear mushrooms, then rolled…

A quick anchovy-and-kelp stock makes the broth backbone (the Korean kitchen standard, taking 10 minutes)

Beef (or goat, or prawns) parboils briefly

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

A fast, fragrant, hands-on dish: medium shrimp roasted hard in a beer-and-butter pool, with the jerk flavours (Scotch…

Prawns (shrimp) curl naturally into half-circles

Sliced garlic (lots, like 8 cloves for a small dish) cooks slowly in olive oil till just turning gold

"Pad see ew" translates literally as "stir-fried with soy sauce", and that soy is the heart of the dish: dark, sweet and…

Spicy Thai salad with glass noodles, prawns, and pork

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