
Balachaung
The Burmese dried-shrimp relish that sits in a jar in every Yangon kitchen, the seasoning you reach for to lift a plate…
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The Burmese dried-shrimp relish that sits in a jar in every Yangon kitchen, the seasoning you reach for to lift a plate…

Salt cod soaks for 24 hours with several water changes to draw out the salt

Ensaladang talong is the Filipino smoky aubergine salad, a Sunday-lunch staple that uses one of the great vegetable…

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

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

Winged beans are sliced thin and tossed with kerisik (toasted grated coconut pounded to a fragrant paste), fresh herbs…

Napa cabbage quarters and salts in heavy salt water 4 hours; rinses well; drains

This is the elegant individual seafood flan from the French dinner-party tradition of the 1970s and 80s, a small pastry…

Dried red chillies are deseeded (most of them), garlic is sliced, shallots are sliced thin

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

Beef parboils briefly with stock cube and onion to make a quick stock

A boiled water-butter-flour dough rolls thin; a thick shrimp béchamel goes on top; folded into half-moons, sealed…

Salade niçoise is the classic Provençal salad named for the city of Nice, a composed plate of cooked ingredients laid…

A bright, punchy raw sambal built around belacan, the fermented Malaysian shrimp paste

Sambal terasi is the Indonesian fermented-shrimp-paste sambal, the spoonful of red fire that lives in a small dish…

A Yangon street-stall snack and the lunch office workers queue for at midday: broken samosas tossed in a hot yellow-pea…