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Anticuchos

Anticuchos

Grilled skewers in ají and vinegar — traditionally heart, honestly also steak if that is what you will eat.

2 hr 30 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️

Dakgalbi

닭갈비

Spicy stir-fried chicken with rice cakes, cabbage and sweet potato — Chuncheon's table-grill export.

50 min·Medium·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Jeyuk bokkeum

제육볶음

Spicy stir-fried pork with gochujang and gochugaru — weeknight heat with rice that you will need.

47 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Salsa roja

Salsa roja

A cooked or roasted red table sauce — tomato, chilli, garlic — not a jar of taco topping.

25 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️

Tibs

ጥብስ

Seared beef or lamb with onion, chilli and rosemary — the sizzling platter, not a stew.

27 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️

Huevos rancheros

Huevos rancheros

Fried eggs on tortillas with a cooked salsa — ranch breakfast, not brunch theatre.

25 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️

Batata harra

بطاطا حارة

Potatoes fried and tossed with garlic, chilli and coriander — hot in both senses if you want them to be.

40 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️

Misir wat

ምስር ወጥ

Red lentils in berbere — the fasting pot that is also Tuesday dinner.

55 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Doro wat

ዶሮ ወጥ

Chicken in a dark berbere-onion sauce, a hard-boiled egg — the feast pot, not a weeknight curry.

2 hr·Medium·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Tteok-kkochi

떡꼬치

Rice cakes on a stick, fried and brushed with a sweet-hot glaze — the other street tteok.

30 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️

Jjamppong

짬뽕

A Korean-Chinese seafood noodle soup so red and briny it fogs your glasses.

45 min·Medium·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Rose tteokbokki

로제떡볶이

The creamy, pink, extremely 2020s cousin of street tteokbokki — still Korean, just wearing a dairy jacket.

30 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️

Chilaquiles

Chilaquiles

Yesterday's tortillas, today's salsa — softened, not soggy if you are lucky, with cream, cheese and an egg.

30 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️

Kimchi-jeon

김치전

A sour, lacy kimchi pancake — the fridge-door dinner when the kimchi is too ripe to be polite.

22 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️

Oi-muchim

오이무침

Smashed cucumber salad with gochugaru, garlic and sesame — the 10-minute banchan that wakes up a heavy table.

15 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️

Dan dan mian

担担面

Sichuan noodles in a sesame-chilli sauce with a little pork — mala, not a peanut-butter soup.

27 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Tacos al pastor

Tacos al pastor

Mexico City pork tacos with achiote, chilli and pineapple — shawarma technique that became something entirely Mexican.

3 hr 10 min·Medium·🌶️🌶️

Dubu-kimchi

두부김치

Warm tofu with stir-fried kimchi and pork — a drinking-table plate that is also a real dinner with rice.

25 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️

Bún bò Huế

Bún bò Huế

A central Vietnamese beef-and-lemongrass noodle soup — thicker noodles, a redder broth, and more chilli than phở.

3 hr 30 min·A bit of work·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Pad krapow

ผัดกะเพรา

Holy basil stir-fry, ripping hot, with a fried egg and rice — the Thai plate people actually order on a Tuesday.

20 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Dakbokkeumtang

닭볶음탕

Chicken and potato braised in a gochujang pot until the sauce clings — also called dakdori-tang, still a weeknight hero.

1 hr·Easy·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Yukgaejang

육개장

Shredded beef soup, red with gochugaru, full of fernbrake and spring onion — hangover logic that also works at lunch.

1 hr 55 min·Medium·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Khao soi

ข้าวซอย

Northern Thai curry noodles — coconut broth, boiled noodles, fried noodles on top, pickle on the side.

55 min·Medium·🌶️🌶️

Budae jjigae

부대찌개

Army-base stew: kimchi, spam, sausages and ramyeon in a gochujang broth that refuses to be precious.

40 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Bibim-naengmyeon

비빔냉면

The same chewy cold noodles as mul-naengmyeon, but tossed in a sweet-hot gochujang sauce instead of ice broth.

30 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Kimchi jjigae

김치찌개

A bubbling kimchi stew with tofu and pork — the Korean answer to 'what is in the fridge and why is it sour'.

50 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Mapo tofu

麻婆豆腐

Sichuan tofu in a chilli-bean sauce with minced pork, Sichuan pepper, and enough oil to carry the mala.

35 min·Medium·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Gamjatang

감자탕

Pork backbone and potato in a gochugaru pot — a late-night stew you eat with your hands and a lot of rice.

1 hr 55 min·Medium·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Larb

ลาบ

Isaan minced-meat salad — lime, fish sauce, toasted rice powder, herbs. Heat that wants sticky rice.

25 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Som tam

ส้มตำ

Isaan green papaya salad pounded in a mortar — lime, fish sauce, chilli, peanuts, and a crunch that should be loud.

20 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Yangnyeom chicken

양념치킨

Twice-fried Korean chicken in a sticky sweet-chilli glaze — the reason 'chimaek' became a word.

1 hr·Medium·🌶️🌶️

Tteokbokki

떡볶이

Chewy rice cakes in a glossy gochujang sauce — the street stall that made K-food a late-night sport.

30 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️🌶️

Sundubu jjigae

순두부찌개

A raging bowl of soft tofu, chilli broth and a cracked egg — the stew you eat before the spoon melts.

35 min·Easy·🌶️🌶️🌶️