- Armenia- roasted vegetables and lamb
- Iranian - chelokabab
- North Korea- rice
- South Korea - pekpan, kimch'i
- Japan- sushi, tempura
- Turkey - kabab
- Iraq - wheat, barley and dates
- China - rice, noodle, mantou, baozi, jiaozi
- Isreal - jaffa
- Thai - tom yum soup, also fish and coconut milk
- Filipinos-rice
