Iconic Asian food

The history of Asia's favourite dishes
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Dish in Focus: smoked butter chicken at Leela
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Hot stuff: 5 chilli sauces to try with as much complexity as kick
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The Indian cookbooks preserving ‘a legacy’ by recording old family recipes
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How old Chinese cookbooks helped a Hong Kong chef modernise her food
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100 Top Tables
Dish in Focus: smoked butter chicken at Leela
Dining
Hot stuff: 5 chilli sauces to try with as much complexity as kick
Profile
The Indian cookbooks preserving ‘a legacy’ by recording old family recipes
Food & Drink
How old Chinese cookbooks helped a Hong Kong chef modernise her food
Summary
Where is sushi from? How about tempura, and sriracha? How did Korean fried chicken become so popular, and what's the story with butter chicken? We explore the history of some iconic Asian dishes and foods...more
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How were Hong Kong egg tarts invented?
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In Numbers
The history of tofu goes back over
2,000 years
but went mainstream in the US when 1960s counterculture explode
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Created in Taichung, Taiwan in the
1980s
bubble tea is a mix of milk tea, tapioca pearls and syrup
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In the
1920s
the British introduced the custard tart to the city of Canton, now Guangzhou.
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