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Friday, September 19, 2008
Abigayle
I have always wanted to know what African and Asian people eat.
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Hello Abigayle: I am a registered dietitian. Here are links to an online encyclopedia as well as other cultural nutrition links. They will tell you what people in Africa and Asia eat. See how their foods fit into the new MyPyramid! If you have any other questions about food and nutrition, I would be glad to answer them.
Hi Abigayle, That's a great question, but it covers alot of different ethnicities and areas, so I will just look at some of Asia and then hopefully other people will tell you about what they eat in Africa.
Here are some popular foods in Japan: http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2035.html. Japanese people eat things like rice, seaweed, and gomaae (spinach with soya bean and sesame).
Korean people like a dish called kimchee, which is spicy, fermented vegetables, and it's eaten with rice. Here's a picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimchi.
In southeast Asia, in Thailand, people eat dishes like Tom Yum Goong, which is shrimp in clear soup made from lemon grass, kaffir lime, hot pepper, lime juice and fish sauce. They also like Fug Tong Gang Buad-- pumpkin cooked in sweet coconut milk. Here's a website that has pictures and more Thai food: http://www.thaitable.com/.
I am living in Indiana right now, but I was in the Army and stationed in Korea for about 3 years as a Korean Linguist. I can tell you some of the wierd and wacky food that they eat. I saw that Kendra wrote about Kimchee, but she left out the part where they bury it in the ground for six months or more before they eat it. Can you imagine what some of your mom's cooking would taste like after that! They have another food they like to eat on the coast and you have to be really careful when you chew. It is live octopus! You have to chew it really good or the tentacles will stick to your throat! And last but not least is a dish called "Bondaygi." It is silk worm larva. They served it at every buffet I ever went to. Well, that's just a little taste of my korean experience for you. I love the food there and wish I could go back. Oh and if you find yourself there I would suggest the "Boshingtong." In english we call it...dog stew! Tell Mr. Palmer I said "hi."
Hi, Abigayle! I'm Mr. Palmer's Uncle Don, I lived for 2 years in Taiwan, Republic of China and had quite an interesting menu to choose from! Here goes! All kinds of fish served with the head still on, and lots of rice, squid, octopus, sea cucumbers, raw fish, lots of rice, fermented cabbage, pig brain, blood popsicles(honest I'm not making this up!)deep fried gecko, lots of rice,blackbird on a stick, duck feet served cold with vinegar sauce, fish eyes, 1000 year old eggs, (not realy that old but tasted like it!) dog, (soory to tell you that but they do eat them), snake soup, turtle soup, frog soup,that's just a sample, there were a lot of food that would take too long to describe, but most of it tasted good! Did I say lots of rice?
Abigayl when i was most recently in South Africa helping save the ghost frog from extintion, i tried some really wierd food. The one was called Kudu it was a tpe of jerky it was quite spicy but very good. we mainly ate a lot of CASSAVA. Oh and by the way if you ever see a ghost frog and you want to scare it just yell BOO!!!
Thank-you for writing to me on my blog.I learned that there is alot of different foods around the world.It was really cool getting comments from all the people that wrote me.
8 comments:
Hello Abigayle: I am a registered dietitian. Here are links to an online encyclopedia as well as other cultural nutrition links. They will tell you what people in Africa and Asia eat. See how their foods fit into the new MyPyramid! If you have any other questions about food and nutrition, I would be glad to answer them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_Africa
http://www.eatrightny.org/nutrition_resources/files/CulturalNutritionResources.pdf
Karen Cox, MS, RD
Karen.Cox@state.co.us
Hi Abigayle,
That's a great question, but it covers alot of different ethnicities and areas, so I will just look at some of Asia and then hopefully other people will tell you about what they eat in Africa.
Here are some popular foods in Japan: http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2035.html. Japanese people eat things like rice, seaweed, and gomaae (spinach with soya bean and sesame).
Korean people like a dish called kimchee, which is spicy, fermented vegetables, and it's eaten with rice. Here's a picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimchi.
In southeast Asia, in Thailand, people eat dishes like Tom Yum Goong, which is shrimp in clear soup made from lemon grass, kaffir lime, hot pepper, lime juice and fish sauce. They also like Fug Tong Gang Buad-- pumpkin cooked in sweet coconut milk. Here's a website that has pictures and more Thai food: http://www.thaitable.com/.
Hi Abigayle,
I am living in Indiana right now, but I was in the Army and stationed in Korea for about 3 years as a Korean Linguist. I can tell you some of the wierd and wacky food that they eat. I saw that Kendra wrote about Kimchee, but she left out the part where they bury it in the ground for six months or more before they eat it. Can you imagine what some of your mom's cooking would taste like after that!
They have another food they like to eat on the coast and you have to be really careful when you chew. It is live octopus! You have to chew it really good or the tentacles will stick to your throat!
And last but not least is a dish called "Bondaygi." It is silk worm larva. They served it at every buffet I ever went to.
Well, that's just a little taste of my korean experience for you. I love the food there and wish I could go back. Oh and if you find yourself there I would suggest the "Boshingtong." In english we call it...dog stew! Tell Mr. Palmer I said "hi."
Bob G.
Hi, Abigayle! I'm Mr. Palmer's Uncle Don, I lived for 2 years in Taiwan, Republic of China and had quite an interesting menu to choose from! Here goes!
All kinds of fish served with the head still on, and lots of rice,
squid, octopus, sea cucumbers, raw fish, lots of rice, fermented cabbage, pig brain, blood popsicles(honest I'm not making this up!)deep fried gecko, lots of rice,blackbird on a stick, duck feet served cold with vinegar sauce, fish eyes, 1000 year old eggs, (not realy that old but tasted like it!) dog, (soory to tell you that but they do eat them), snake soup, turtle soup, frog soup,that's just a sample, there were a lot of food that would take too long to describe, but most of it tasted good! Did I say lots of rice?
Abigayl when i was most recently in South Africa helping save the ghost frog from extintion, i tried some really wierd food. The one was called Kudu it was a tpe of jerky it was quite spicy but very good. we mainly ate a lot of CASSAVA.
Oh and by the way if you ever see a ghost frog and you want to scare it just yell BOO!!!
Thank-you for writing to me on my blog.I learned that there is alot of different foods around the world.It was really cool getting comments from all the people that wrote me.
Sincerely,
Abigayle
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