Understanding the Different Styles of Asian Food and Restaurants

Asian cuisine is pretty much an umbrella term that envelops over various cuisines that come out from Asia. There's South Asian cuisine, Central Asian cuisine, East Asian cuisine, and Southeast Asian cuisine. Each of those cuisines are also umbrella terms of their own. When you talk about Asian cuisine, there are so many different categories and sub-categories. It doesn't necessarily mean it's Oriental cuisine.

Cuisines from the numerous countries in the Middle East are considered West Asian cuisines. For example food from Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and various other countries in that region fall under the umbrella term of West Asian cuisine. I can't explain much about West Asian cuisine since I have yet to try their foods. Currently the area I live in, there's little to no restaurants that serve any West Asian cuisines. At the same time they're considered cuisines from the Middle East, they fall under the umbrellas of West Asian cuisine and Asian cuisine.

It says that Afghani cuisine is based mainly on bread and wheat products since the landscape allows for them to grow various crops. From what I read that most of the dishes in Afghanistan are similar to the ones in served in Iraq and Tajikistan.

One example of a dish popular in the Middle East is called baklava which is a sweet pastry. However, baklava is also part of the Mediterranean cuisine in Greek cuisine. Another example is Nan-i-Afghani which is Afghani bread which is a flat bread similar to tortillas and pita bread. A good number of the various Middle Eastern dishes are mainly wheat and vegetables with a good number being considered as pastries.

Mongolian dishes are mainly consist of meats and various dairy products. Authentic Mongolian dishes consist of the typical cattle which is beef. However, their dishes also consist of camel, sheep, goats, yak, and horse. Yes, the Mongolians do eat horse meat. Certain animals such as horses and camels are strictly forbidden in certain religious laws. If you do follow the strict dietary laws of certain religions, be very careful if you do decided to ever try out Mongolian cuisine.