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Chopsticks and raw fish, rice and seaweed, sake and curry: The world of Asian cuisine is large and for the most part well known, but not well understood. Today I shall be talking about cuisine from East Asia: Korea, China, and Japan.

So, let's start with Korea, shall we? Koreans eat rice (well...duh) and use it to make flour and rice cakes called tteok as well. A famous Korean dish is kimchi--which is basically pickled vegetables, especially cabbage and raddish. To give you a mental image: it's all weird and red, it's spicy, and it has a very pugnent smell. It smells...not very pleasing to the nose. (Unless you're Korean and you practically sleep in kimchi.) Koreans also eat lots of noodles and seafood and various types of meat (including dog and beef and pork, etc.).

As for the Chinese, they'll eat almost anything it seems. Rice is, of course, very prevelent in this culture as well. Chinese people also drink tea, but then again: This is Asia, people. Chinese people eat a lot of noodles as well.

In Japan, raw fish is common. Noodles, like soba and udon and ramen are also common. Again, rice and tea are common. Sake is basically rice wine and is the common alcoholic beverage. (I've realized that I used the word "common" too many times in this paragraph.)

You should all go eat Asian food.