Around the world in 7 dishes – without leaving the comforts of home

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Around the world in 7 dishes – without leaving the comforts of home

While you lot're staying rubber at home, a taste of far flung lands is merely a dish – and a phone phone call, text message or mouse click – away.

23 Apr 2022 06:30AM (Updated: 09 Jul 2022 06:35AM)

Chef Nipaporn Doungiaisantisuk turns out some of the most underrated Thai nutrient at Blue Jasmine. This simple dish of Cha Om fried eggs with pungent acacia leaves (Southward$12) and a punchy nam prik kapi (a spicy paste of chillies, palm sugar, lime, shrimp paste and pea eggplant) is soul-soothing for anyone who's grown upwardly eating fried eggs and chillies on hot rice. For Chef Nipaporn, it is a cornball reminder of quick meals her female parent would whip up at home in Chiang Rai.

GASCONY, French republic

Originally a dish made to sustain Gascons during the cold winter months, duck confit'southward rich, glistening comforts have made information technology pop all year round. At chophouse-epicerie SoFrance, ducks are marinated in common salt, orangish zest, star anise and thyme for four hours, confited (cooked in its own fat) for 18 hours, and seared to yield crisp pare and flavor-saturated mankind that falls off the bone. The confit duck legs (S$32) are served with roasted pebble-sized Grenaille potatoes seasoned with the gentle rut of espelette peppers.

MEXICO

Imagine a casual, colourful eatery along a cacophonous street in United mexican states, chomping on fajitas and nachos, shimmying to cheerful tunes in the background. Now get that Classic Fajita from El Mero Mero, filled with 250g of grilled chicken (Due south$38) or beef (S$42), lots of sauteed onions, serrano chillies and infant potatoes. Plop every bit much sour foam and guacamole on it every bit you tin muster, and life is muy buena over again.

PERU

Sudado Pescado. (Photo: TONO Cevicheria)

Tono Cevicheria'southward name (which means party in Peruvian) and its Sudado Pescado (Due south$24), are firm testaments of its native culture's festive spirit. There is flavour in spades in this traditional Peruvian fish stew, simmered with fruity xanthous chillies, onions, tomatoes, parsley and potatoes. Savor it slowly while daydreaming about that hike in Machu Picchu that you've always wanted to practise.

Espana

From the fan-baiting open kitchen of atmospheric establishment FOC comes a taste of ane of Espana'southward almost emblematic meals – squid ink paella with prawns and squid (South$28). Arroz (round, shortgrain rice) is steeped in the ebony salinity of squid ink and a tasty seafood stock, and cooked over an open flame till a precious layer of socarrat (crispy rice) forms at the base of the pan. It'south as close as we'll become to enjoying the briny flavours and breezes of the Spanish seas for now.

TURKEY

At Summerlong, the iconic Imam Bayildi (S$25) takes the form of an eggplant stuffed with garlic, tomatoes and feta cheese, and baked to smoky, squishy lusciousness. Information technology is light even so securely savoury and deliciously comforting in these times. Its name, Imam Biyildi, translates to "the imam fainted", and comes from legend that a Turkish imam who ate a similarly tasty stew of aubergines and other vegetables collapsed from the sheer pleasure of information technology. We'll have some of what he had, delight.

UZBEKISTAN

At its most bones, plov is rice fabricated with whatever ingredients the people of Central Asia accept on hand. At contemporary Fundamental Asian eating house The Nomads, plov (Southward$32) is inspired by the Uzbek manner and gussied upwards with wagyu striploin and tea-braised quail eggs. The result is a rich risotto-esque dish, almost gamey with the beef and unctuous nuggets of bone marrow save for the brilliant acidity of pickled carrots and brandied raisins.

Around the world in 7 dishes – without leaving the comforts of home

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