Joy Turner

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Archive for the 'World Cuisine' Category

Chinese Food Basic Ingredients

Being the novice in Chinese food cooking can be quite confusing and challenging. First of all, with just a quick look through Asian recipes a person could get the impression it is extremely expensive or impossible to prepare with some regular ingredients. The truth is, for the most Chinese meals there is no need for [...]

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Hog Roast Around the World

All around the world food is very important part of the celebrations and in many countries hog roast represents the fusion of the old tradition and the modern party. Pig roasting is very popular in Eastern European countries, UK, Philippines, Cuba and in recent years even in the U.S. Foreigners often disagree with this way [...]

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Marzipan – When Almond and Sugar Fall in Love

For more than one thousand years, people have combined sugar and blanched ground almonds to make tasty paste called marzipan. Even though it is originally from the Orient, this confection is widely popular all around the world, and particularly in Europe. EU law defines that something could be sold and produced under name of marzipan [...]

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Asian Food Recipes

The term “Asian food” in the United Kingdom generally refers to South Asian food (Sri Lanka, Burma, India and Pakistan), while in the United States and Australia it usually refers to East Asian food (with the origins in Imperial China encompassing modern Japan and the Korean peninsula) and Southeast Asian food.  In Asia, the term [...]

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Enjoy the Delicious Malaysian Cuisine

Malaysia comes in south east part of Asia and it is very unusual that one part is Thailand’s south on the south east Asian peninsular, along with Singapore as its tip. This is the place where the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur is found. The other part falls throughout the sea of South Chinaand forms one [...]

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Sri Lanka Holidays – What to eat?

Before I headed out to Sri Lanka on my fam trip, I was told by my colleagues I was going to eat a lot of rice and curry, and I needed to get some egg hoppers for breakfast, (preferably a local stall on the side of the road somewhere) Heading straight to the Mudhouse, in [...]

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