Nigeria – Stew Sauce

The question about cuisines and their origin has been a thought that I have been thinking of. The are many cuisines around the world coming from different tribes and regions. The question I use to ask myself is, how where the cuisines formed.

Levant, Egypt – Ful Medames With Challah

Ful medames is the Levantine salad made up of fava beans and raw vegetables. Ful medames is eaten in Arabic countries, Asia, Middle Eastern, and North African. This salad is the most ancient dish of Egyptian cuisine. There are many varieties of the dish around the world.

Tanzania – African Yellow Split Peas-Rice Mix

In Tanzania, yellow split peas serves much starts from foods to business as some fry and sell them as packed in small packets and usually sells them at a cost of 1.43$ per packet.

Benin – Aloko

Aloko is a simple fried ripe banana crispy from Benin. It is loved by many because of the consistency of its sugar after being fried. The cuisine is sold in the streets food centers, whereby you may find it chopped in various shapes.

Filipino – Sans Rival (Dessert Cake)

Sans Rival is an cake type dessert. It is not a normal cake as normally cakes are soft but due to meringues this cake gets a crunchy texture which adds another dimension of flavor and complexion to the dish. Sans Rival is an French word which means “without rival”. The first Sans Rival was made in the years between 1920 and 1930. Its background may be French but it was first made in the Philippines.

South Africa – Potjiekos

Potjiekos is a South African food. This name means “small pot food”. This meal is usually prepared on a three stone fire side using a small pot that has three legs.

Japan – Melonpan

Sweet bun soft inside covered with crispy-crunchy cookie dough is the best thing for a snack as a biscuit, like a cookie, as a bun. This is known as melonpan because of having the same shape like melon. This is more like a bun in texture but having many flavors to be added on to give exotic flavors and new tastes. There are various types of the melonpan bun with different fillings and stuffing added.

Cameroon – Nso Koki Corn

Nso koki corn is a form of corn that is opposite to the legendary known type of Koki, known as Koki beans. In the mouth, it has the feeling of being hard and soft at the same time, though generally, it is harder in the mouth. Nso koki corn is a meal from the Banso inhabitants, also known as the Nso inhabitants.

Cameroon – Meat Pie

This is an occasional kind of meal. Pies are wonderful meals and could be serve as a main dish because they are heavy and tasty when prepared well.

Korea, Japan – Bibimbap / Korean Mixed Rice Bowl

Bibimbap is a dish from Korean national cuisine. It is actually a rice dish which means Mixed Rice. In this dish, many different ingredients are added like stir-fried vegetables, cooked meat chunks, raw vegetable salad, noodles, spices and herbs, eggs, etc. BIBIMBAP was first time recorded in a book of JOSEON. There are different versions of Bibimbap.