Tag Archive for: World Cuisine

Pakistan, India, Bangladesh – Tawa Chicken

Tawa is actually the piece of metal that is commonly used to fry the chapati or naan or chicken or any meat. This is the grilled shape of iron or metal which is when heated over the coal give you a very satisfying aroma of the dish.

Benin – Igname Pilée

Igname Pilée means ground yam, it is found by the origin from French language to mean Yam or ground yam. The dish signifies cultural meal as to many Benin inhabitants, yams were the most consumed meals. This character is even distributed to it’s neighbor countries like Nigeria.

Filipino – SInigang Na Baka

SInigang Na Baka is a classic Philippines stew/ soup dish and, is considered to be the national dish of Philippines. There are many stalls in the street of Philippines which sell this soup. SInigang is made in many different cities in Philippines but it is said it is a cultural phenomena of the Tagalog people. SInigang if translated into English means “stew” which is exactly what the dish itself is.

Korea – Gopchang Gui (곱창구이)

Gui is known to be the GRILL ITEM. Gopchang-GUI (곱창구이) is the “grilled intestines” could be small intestine and large intestine. The word Gui is derived from the other word, gupda (굽다), which means “To grill”. Relevantly, the history of Korean cuisine starts from the Three kingdom period and ends with the Joseon period followed by the Modern era.

Somalia – Doolshe Buuro

Talking about cakes in Somalia, you may be referring to most needed cuisine, start with spongy cakes to pound cakes. Pound cakes were merely produced at homes and sold in the tea shops. Pound cakes like Doolshe Buuro were once prepared with a secret-like guarded recipe, but now you can have it at your home kitchen.

Cameroon – Accra Banana

Accra banana is a snack made from grated cassava and ripe bananas. Accra banana has a long history as our great grandparents discovered this snack, passed it down to our grandparents then to our parents. In almost all occasions now, Accra banana is always seen on the table and it is very economical as it can serve a large number of people. It has become a source of income to many people and has also become very popular and on high demand.