Sizzling Sisig (Filipino Crispy Pork with Eggs)

Pork and Vegetable Lumpia from 'The Adobo Road Cookbook'

These lumpia, or Filipino spring rolls, are fried and filled with moist ground pork, carrots, peas, and bean sprouts. Fish sauce adds a layer of salty complexity, but otherwise these are simply straight-up, easy-to-eat, fried goodness.

Lumpiang Shanghai (Filipino Egg Rolls)

A party favorite at Filipino gatherings and a crowd pleasing snack for all ages.

Gado-gado (Indonesian salad)

tempeh and fried tofu For blanched vegetables: 1 cup of string beans cut into 4 cm long pieces, 1 cup of shredded cabbage, 1 cup of mung bean sprouts, 2 small chayotes cut into wedges (2 cups' worth), 1 cup of water spinach ("ong choy"), 1 cup of Chinese spinach Chinese spinach water spinach...

Green Papaya Salad

Considered to be one of the top 50 foods in the world, Green Papaya Salad is zingy, spicy, savoury and sweet. Famous traditional Thai salad.

Charles Phan's Green Papaya Salad with Rau Ram, Peanuts, and Crispy Shallots

Phan's version is relatively simple; crisp green papaya slivers mingle with pickled carrots, fried tofu, cucumbers, and celery. A dressing of potent fish sauce, vinegar, garlic, and chiles brings the vegetables together, and then the whole caboodle is topped with fried shallots and roasted peanuts. You will, of course, have find a good way to julienne a giant papaya, pickle carrots, fry both tofu and shallots, and mix it all together before dinner. It is no last-minute side dish, but you'll be h...

Bangkok Street Food's Green Papaya Salad

This recipe from Bangkok Street Food comes from years of on-the-street research—that is, loads of spicy-fresh papaya salads made streetside, pounded with a mortar and pestle for optimal enjoyment. Aside from the papaya and a really fabulous dressing of chiles, garlic, and fish sauce, this salad calls for a few other veggies: long beans and Thai eggplant. Finished off with a handful of roasted peanuts and chewy dried shrimp, this papaya salad is tasty on so many levels—crisp, hot, sweet, crunchy,...

Gado Gado (Indonesian salad with peanut sauce)

This is an Indonesian Gado Gado with a fabulous peanut sauce that is true to the authentic flavours but easier to make. Use any vegetables you want!

Tortang Talong (Filipino Eggplant Omelette)

Crispy, succulent egg-battered fried eggplant stuffed with seasoned ground pork.

Halo-Halo (Filipino Shaved Ice Dessert)

Shaved ice, fruit, tapioca pearls, evaporated milk, ube ice cream, and leche flan.

Pancit Palabok (Filipino Noodles With Smoky Pork and Seafood Sauce)

This classic Filipino noodle dish is packed with pork, chicken, shrimp, and layer upon layer of seafood flavor.