• Ethnic Cuisines

Get your ethnic foods passport ready!

Imagine yourself walking down the street with a rumble in your stomach and you are surrounded by restaurants. Only one problem. None of these ethnic restaurants serve food you are familiar with. So you do your best to ignore the hunger and walk on by. Trying ethnic foods can be a rewarding adventure.

Consider this page a Wikipedia portal to the many world ethnic foods and cuisines the planet has to offer. Browse by country to discover the typical ingredients and approaches to the preparation and serving of each cuisine:

African

Central Africa

• Cameroonian cuisine
• Congolese cuisine

East Africa

• Burundian cuisine
• Kenyan cuisine
• Tanzanian cuisine
• Ugandan cuisine

Horn of Africa

• Eritrean cuisine
• Ethiopian cuisine
• Somali cuisine

North Africa

• Algerian cuisine
• Egyptian cuisine
• Libyan cuisine
• Moroccan cuisine
• Sudanese cuisine
• Tunisian cuisine

Southern Africa

• Botswanan cuisine
• Cuisine of Madagascar
• Mauritian cuisine
• Namibian cuisine
• South African cuisine
• Zimbabwean cuisine

West Africa

• Burkinabe cuisine
• Cuisine of Côte d’Ivoire
• Ghanaian cuisine
• Nigerian cuisine
• Sierra Leonean cuisine
• Senegali cuisine

Asian

Central Asia

• Afghan cuisine
• Kazakh cuisine
• Kyrgyz cuisine
• Mongolian cuisine
• Tajik cuisine
• Tibetan cuisine
• Turkmen cuisine
• Uyghur cuisine (Cuisine of Xinjiang)
• Uzbek cuisine

East Asia

• Cuisine of Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong – western style
• Japanese cuisine
  • Okinawan cuisine
  • Ainu cuisine
• Korean cuisine
  • Korean temple cuisine
• Macanese cuisine
• Mongolian cuisine
• Taiwanese cuisine

China

Beijing cuisine Chinese aristocrat cuisine Chinese imperial cuisine Liaoning cuisine Chinese Buddhist cuisine Cantonese cuisine Chiuchow cuisine Hakka cuisine

Henan cuisine Anhui cuisine Fujian cuisine Hubei cuisine Hunan cuisine Chinese Islamic cuisine Shanxi cuisine Jiangxi cuisine Shanghai cuisine Tibetan cuisine

Jiangsu cuisine Huaiyang cuisine Guizhou cuisine Northeastern Chinese cuisine Shandong cuisine Shaanxi cuisine Szechuan cuisine (Sichuan) Yunnan cuisine Zhejiang cuisine Xinjiang cuisine

Southeast Asia

• Cambodian cuisine
• Indonesian cuisine
  • Indonesian Chinese cuisine
  • Javanese cuisine
  • Minangkabau cuisine
• Laotian cuisine
• Malaysian cuisine
  • Penang cuisine
  • Ipoh cuisine
  • Peranakan cuisine
• Cuisine of Burma/Myanamar
• Filipino cuisine
• Singaporean cuisine
• Thai cuisine
• Vietnamese cuisine

South Asia

• Bangladeshi cuisine
• Bhutanese cuisine
• Maldivian cuisine
• Nepalese cuisine
• Pakistani cuisine
• Sri Lankan cuisine

West Asia

Middle Eastern cuisine Assyrian cuisine Iranian cuisine Mazanderani cuisine Iraqi cuisine Kurdish cuisine

Arab cuisine Bahraini cuisine Kuwaiti cuisine Omani cuisine Qatari cuisine Saudi Arabian cuisine Yemeni cuisine

Levantine cuisine Israeli cuisine Jordanian cuisine Lebanese cuisine Palestinian cuisine Syrian cuisine

Caribbean

• Cuisine of Antigua and Barbuda
• Cuban cuisine
• Cuisine of Curaçao
• Dominican cuisine
• Dominican Republic cuisine
• Grenadian cuisine
• Guyanese cuisine
• Haitian cuisine
• Jamaican cuisine
• Martinican cuisine
• Puerto Rican cuisine
• Cuisine of Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Cuisine of Trinidad and Tobago

European

Northern Europe

British Isles Irish cuisine British cuisine English cuisine Scottish cuisine Welsh cuisine Cuisine of Saint Helena Anglo-Indian cuisine

Scandinavia Danish cuisine Cuisine of Faroe Islands Greenlandic cuisine Finnish cuisine Icelandic cuisine Lappish cuisine Norwegian cuisine Swedish cuisine

Western Europe

• Austrian cuisine
• Belgian cuisine
• Dutch cuisine
• French cuisine
• German cuisine
• Luxembourgian cuisine
• Swiss cuisine

Eastern Europe

Belarusian cuisine Czech cuisine Hungarian cuisine Moldovan cuisine Polish cuisine Romanian cuisine

Russian cuisine Tatar cuisine Slovak cuisine Slovenian cuisine Ukrainian cuisine

The Caucasus Armenian cuisine Azerbaijani cuisine Georgian cuisine

Baltic states Estonian cuisine Latvian cuisine Lithuanian cuisine

Southern Europe

Balkans Albanian cuisine Bosnian cuisine Bulgarian cuisine Croatian cuisine Greek cuisine Macedonian cuisine (Greek) Macedonian cuisine (Slavic) Montenegrin cuisine Serbian cuisine Turkish cuisine

Italian Peninsula Italian cuisine Sicilian cuisine Maltese cuisine Cuisine of San Marino

Iberian Peninsula Gibraltarian cuisine Portuguese cuisine

Spanish cuisine

• Andalusian cuisine
• Asturian cuisine
• Aragonese cuisine
• Balearic cuisine
• Basque cuisine
• Canarian cuisine

• Cantabrian cuisine
• Castilian-Manchego cuisine
• Catalan cuisine
• Galician cuisine
• Leonese cuisine
• Valencian cuisine

Indian

North Indian cuisines Punjabi cuisine Cuisine of Uttar Pradesh Rajasthani cuisine Mughlai cuisine Bhojpuri cuisine Bihari cuisine Kashmiri cuisine South Indian cuisines Kerala cuisine Tamil cuisine Andhra cuisine Cuisine of Karnataka Hyderabadi cuisine

East Indian cuisines Bengali cuisine Cuisine of Jharkhand Oriya cuisine North-East Indian cuisines Sikkimese cuisine Assamese cuisine Tripuri cuisine Naga cuisine

West Indian cuisines Goan cuisine Gujarati cuisine Maharashtrian cuisine Malvani cuisine Parsi cuisine Rajasthani cuisine Other Indian Chinese cuisine Jain (Satvika) Sindhi cuisine Chettinad cuisine Udupi cuisine Indian fast food

Latin America

Central

• Belizean cuisine
• Costa Rican cuisine
• Salvadoran cuisine
• Guatemalan cuisine
• Honduran cuisine
• Nicaraguan cuisine
• Panamanian cuisine

South

• Argentinian cuisine
• Brazilian cuisine
• Chilean cuisine
• Colombian cuisine
• Ecuadoran cuisine
• Peruvian cuisine
  • Peruvian-Chinese cuisine (chifa)
• Uruguayan cuisine
• Venezuelan cuisine

North America

• Canadian cuisine
  • Cuisine of Quebec
  • Cuisine of Toronto
  • Canadian Chinese cuisine
• Mexican cuisine
• Native American cuisine

United States

Northeastern cuisines Cuisine of New England Cuisine of Philadelphia Cuisine of New York City

Southern cuisines Cajun cuisine Floribbean cuisine Louisiana Creole cuisine Lowcountry cuisine Cuisine of Kentucky Southwestern cuisines New Mexican cuisine Tex-Mex cuisine

Western cuisines California cuisine Cuisine of California Hawaiian cuisine Pacific Northwest cuisine

Fusion cuisine Chinese American cuisine Euro-Asian cuisine Italian-American cuisine New American cuisine Other Fast food Barbecue Soul food

Oceania and the Pacific

• Australian cuisine
• Cuisine of Mariana Islands
• New Zealand cuisine
• Cuisine of Palau
• Samoan cuisine
• Tongan cuisine