Type of Cuisine Various Contries

Oriental cuisine is a type of cuisine that comes from the Asian island countries such as Indonesia, China, Japan, India, Arabia, Pakistan and other eastern countries. The oriental cuisine is a blend of some Asian recipes that are easily recognizable from the look, aroma and taste because oriental cuisine always uses the main ingredients such as garlic, soy sauce, fish sauce, oyster sauce, tomato sauce, sesame oil, ang chiu etc. Spices used are usually fresh spices that directly formulated. The strikingly sharp oriental states are Indian, Pakistani and Burmese. While Japan, Korea and Vietnam follow the taste. Chinese cuisine in general. Muang Thay, Filipino, and Malaysian tastes are closer to the taste of Indonesian cuisine.

Oriental cuisine is always served as a staple food such as rice, noodles or corn so it contains more carbohydrates than animal and vegetable proteins. Oriental cuisine is quite varied in the use of foodstuffs from vegetables, meats such as beef and chicken meat and various seafood are processed either burned or fried. In oriental food is not known menu arrangement. The presentation of the menu stands alone because there is no standard arrangement menu. The oriental food processing technique is complex and old but the presentation procedure is simpler, served together with the same cutlery for different food types and is implemented at once. Consists of staple foods, side dishes and vegetables.

Characteristics of cuisine of some oriental countries; including:

1. Chinese cuisine
   Chinese cuisine is one of oriental food that is known and loved by the people of Indonesia. Materials and seasonings are easily obtained. The staple food of the Chinese is rice served with side dishes. Instead of rice is usually used noodles or vermicelli. Materials that are widely used for side dishes are pork, poultry, eggs and seafood products known as seafood. Vegetables are jelly, cabbage, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, peas, tofu and mushrooms. The main flavoring spices are various soy sauce, sauce, oyster, vetsin, garlic, pork oil, sesame oil, peanut oil and chicken oil.

The specialty of Chinese cuisine is fast processing and comes with tomato sauce, vinegar sauce and soy sauce. Sausage cuisine is always served in a bowl. The cutlery is chopsticks, because it's a big cut of groceries to take it easy.

1. Japanese cuisine
   Japanese cuisine is heavily influenced by Chinese and Korean cuisine. The hallmark of this country is to use raw fish or chicken as an entree. The arrangement of Japanese food is influenced by the American food arrangement where always served a kind of lettuce or soup, then staple food and dessert. Sop was served in a bowl with a spoon or a duck spoon, then followed another dish with a little rice eaten with chopsticks. The famous Japanese foods include sukiyaki, tempura and yakitori. Spices are widely used, among others, garlic, ginger, pepper, various soy sauce, shoyu, mirin, sake, vetsin, vinegar and mosterd. Japanese food also uses a variety of mushrooms. Other foodstuffs are the same as Chinese dishes. The tools for serving Japanese food have interesting shapes and names with lacquer and porcelain. The Japanese dining table is short-legged and the person sitting is sitting cross-legged around on the pillow.

2. Indian, Arabic, and Pakistani Cuisine
   The Arab, Indian and Pakistani staple foods are rice and all kinds of bread, eaten with side dishes such as gule and curry. Goat guling or grilled meat and kebabs are the most famous foods. In northern India and Pakistan the main food is a country of bread made from wheat flour and water without yeast.

There are several types of bread made, including:

a) Nan and chapatti are made from a mixture of wheat and thinly formed water.

b) Rhoti is a kind of chapatti made thicker

c) Paratha bread is thicker than chapatti and fried in butter or ghee.

In southern India, the staple food is rice eaten with side dishes of pork, chicken, eggs and seafood. Also used are nuts and chutney. Seasonings used are dry seasonings with strong aromas and flavors. One of the most popular spices is curry. In the food is also used oil samin camel oil for frying or sauteing.Selain it is also used yoghurt. As desserts are used cakes or candied fruit.

1. Filipino cuisine
   The staple food of the Philippines consists of rice eaten with side dishes, especially Fish Fund is a blend of Eastern and Western cuisine. American influence is mainly seen in desserts of pudding, ice cream and fruit.

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