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From India to China to Indonesia, senior food and wine editor Susan Jung tells you how to prepare delicious Asian dishes such as curry puffs, XO sauce, beef rendang, kimchi, and shrimp toast. Learn how to make these and dozens more dishes on this page.

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  • Shruti Taneja, the Delhi-based founder of Nivaala, was inspired to start helping people record their ‘family food culture’ after missing her late mother’s food
  • The project has evolved from selling blank journals to tailor-made cookbooks containing families’ and other recipes that can be passed down through generations

The head chef at Hong Kong contemporary Cantonese restaurant Ho Lee Fook, ArChan Chan Kit-ying, reveals how reading a collection of old Chinese cookbooks from the 1950s changed the way she cooks.

Former long-serving Post food editor Susan Jung recalls making fried chicken in her grandmother’s kitchen growing up in California. It was a natural subject for her first cookbook since leaving the Post, she says.

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Chicken Manchurian was created in the 1970s in Mumbai, by chef Nelson Wang, and today is the most popular ‘Chinese’ dish in India, found on every Indian Chinese restaurant menu.

Ian Goh recently won first prize in the Asian edition of the S. Pellegrino Young Chef Awards. The Singaporean explains how his Hainanese heritage inspired his competition-winning dish.

Butter chicken started as a roadside culinary experiment, and quickly grew into arguably India’s favourite dish. Today, Indian-born chefs are spreading this comfort food around the world.

When Hong Kong-born Dominica Yang found her mother’s handwritten recipes, she wrote a cookbook based on them, Mum’s Kitchen – Back to Basics, dedicated to her mum and her late sister.

Take some firm, mild-tasting fish, slice, coat with Goji powder and slow-fry. Fry sliced shallots and cashews. Mix tamarind paste and fish sauce, add water. Fry, add chillies and shallots, coat fish and serve.

This pork belly recipe from the Philippines should be started the day before; the belly is simmered, dried for eight hours in the fridge, then deep-fried twice.

Angela Dimayuga realised her culture’s food could be as sophisticated as European cuisines after she turned to her grandma for lessons. She includes some of her lola’s recipes in a cookbook.

Thailand’s classic hot, sweet and sour flavours are enhanced by bitter melon in a cold yet fiery raw prawn dish. Fry the prawn heads separately following our second recipe.

This Lunar New Year dish, meant to bring prosperity, is a mix of fresh and dried ingredients, and many alternatives can be substituted if you can’t find them in the shops.

Easily transported and cooked, and today made with a variety of meats, the much-loved staple food has travelled with Hong Kong’s diaspora to the farthest corners of the world

This is nothing like your English pork pie – it’s pretty, delicate and light. Serve it as a starter at a holiday meal or add it to your holiday buffet.

Hong Kong waffles, served with peanut butter and condensed milk, are an old street snack that is mostly found in cafes today, and you can easily make your own.

Simran Savlani, author of A Spark of Madness – an Amalgamation of 116 Vegetarian and Vegan Asian Staples, has ‘never followed a recipe line for line’ and wants others to also ‘freestyle in the kitchen’.

This take on a Chinese favourite uses strawberry jam for the sweet and vinegar for the sour. Use Thai tempura powder to coat the pork, or make your own.

This Hong Kong classic can be done low-and-slow or in a pressure cooker – beef cheeks cook more consistently than brisket, and tendon adds texture to the sauce.

The delicious snacks can be made with beef or lamb mince, and you can buy stock and gelatin to make your own jelly stock, which turns to an amazing gravy when hot.

No celebration in the Philippines is complete without a big plate of lumpia Shanghai, spring rolls that are commonly deep-fried and were first made popular by Chinese settlers.

Social media success can open many doors for amateurs. We talk to Instagramers Michael Zee, Jen Balisi and Joanne Lee Molinaro, who all now have cookbook deals.