It’s hump day (mid-week) so what better way to enjoy the slow slide to the weekend than another whet-your-appetite-feast-for-your-eyes-grey-matter-tickler that is the “Name the Dish” challenge! This week, we are graced by the beauties of the red dishes and this is the penultimate challenge!
You can check the past challenges here: blue ,green , orange ,pink and purple dishes! And if you’re new to it all, the challenge is really simple. All you have to do is to try and name all the dishes that you see in the images posted. They are all numbered and I’ve also provided zoomed-in images that show the dishes slightly better!
When providing your answers, please also indicate the number of the dish that you’re referring to. And I would highly encourage you to answer in your own language too and if you can, do also add the English translations. It’s super fun to see what the dishes are called locally!
For example:
Ikan bilis (anchovies)
Keju (cheese)
… and so on. And you don’t have to be super accurate!
And I hope that you will enjoy these challenges. They are a great way to expand your culinary knowledge and learn about the different dishes from all around the world! So let’s get going! Whoop! Whoop!
And here’s a confession, I also do not know what dish #11 is! So, I’m hoping someone in the community might recognise what it is! I’m thinking it might be a Korean style/type dish! Help!!!
Feel free to tag a few of your foodie friends to see how well they do in naming the dishes! And if you have any fun facts about any of the dishes shown, feel free to share them with us all!And also, I’ve recently completed the edit of Episode 2 of the #LocalGuidesKitchen video series where I had @Lusianaa guide me on how to make moss pudding (puding lumut in Indonesian). The live stream was cut short because of technical issues so, now, you can finally watch how the episode proceeded! You can watch it here.
@kvlpilote Thanks for taking part!! I actually don’t know what food from Cameroon would be like and am super curious to know more! If you can show some dishes that can only be found in Cameroon, please do so! And also let us know what they are (what are they made of etc) if they are very foreign to us!
@Lusianaa thanks for the Indonesian names! As usual, I’m learning something new from all of you: pastel tutup! And thanks for #11! I wasn’t sure because the egg is normally just broken over the rice.
@Velvel I don’t eat a lot of Korean food actually. The cuisine is quite new to me and I usually have to rely on others to order the food. I have been to a local Korean restaurant and chose the set menu (makes it easier since I don’t have to choose!) and the dishes were amazing! I do love kimchi a lot! And the kimchi set at this restaurant is fantastic!
Thanks to everyone who gave this a try! I hope that you’ve enjoyed making the guesses! Here comes the answers!
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Answers are shown below!! If you haven’t tried guessing the names of the dishes yet,
now’s the time to scroll back up and do so!
Grapefruit juice
Garlic shrimps
Salad (with cottage cheese)… sorry… but zooming in lets me see it
Cottage pie or sheperd’s pie… or maybe even just a dish of mash potatoes! A cottage pie is made with minced beef whilst a sheperd’s pie uses minced lamb or mutton. More info here.
Cream biscuits. The ones that I’ve had uses vanilla flavoured cream but back home, I love getting the peanut butter version! Mmmmm!
Selection of artisan bread
A lovely stack of pancakes with maple syrup and a bit of melted butter on top! I love a good pancake!
Har gau or steamed prawn dumplings. A very common dimsum dish that is lovely! You can find the recipe and how to make it here.
Pan fried salmon, with lemon and dill
Pretzel. Did you know that a pretzel is considered a sign of good luck and spiritual wholeness? In doing this post, I started to do a research on its history and it’s absolutely fascinating! Shh… but I thought it had origins from America and, erm, I’m not a huge fan of them!
Bibimbap. Thanks @Velvel@Lusianaa !! Another fascinating post found online that tells me that bibimbap translates to “mixed rice”. Like most food history, there’s no one theory or origin story!
Lobster roll! You can just see the top chunk is the meat from the pincer!
Steamed bao buns with a meat filling. I’m guessing it’s a pork belly filling which is rather popular but my guess is as good as yours. Super tasty and here’s another post about the different type of bao buns that you can get. For me, when bao buns are mentioned, I usually think of the traditional round shaped buns with fillings on the inside. These flat/folded buns are kinda new to me and I wasn’t sure if it has origins from Taiwan~~/Japan~~. Any Local Guides care to chime in? (Edit: Thanks @Velvel for confirming that its origin is from Taiwan!)
The King of Fruits… it’s none other than the lovely durian! Love the flavour and love the taste… but it’s not everyone’s cup of tea! Some folks think it smells of gas, kerosene, onions or sweaty socks!! And yes, that description does not make durian sound very appetising… but if you can get over the smell, it is quite amazing!
And that’s the answers for the red dishes! I’m adding extra information in to expand on my own knowledge pool and I hope you enjoy learning about the various dishes!
If you have any information/experience/stories to share about any of these dishes, feel free to do so in the comments below!
Yummy Yummy delicious post … thank you @Velvel for the tag, I’ll try too as well also if some of them I really have no idea of their names also if I know them , and I’ve skipped @AdrianLunsong 's spoilers :
@Sophia_Cambodia Yes… my favourite is durian flavoured ice cream! I don’t know why! My family thinks the taste is weird (ie. not very authentic) but I just like durian ice cream!
@LuigiZ Hah! It’s quite interesting when you look at dish #5 and your answer is “German biscuits”. For me, they are peanut butter/vanilla cream biscuits because that’s what I normally get in Malaysia growing up. But if look at it from a UK context, I would think they are cheese biscuits because that’s what I normally find in the supermarkets here.
Haha indeed @AdrianLunsong and I think you are right … it is nice to see the different perception we have based on what we commonly use in our countries, or commonly get used with.
I said German biscuits because they resembled me a typical German biscuit chains we can find here in supermarkets (and they are quite famous in Germany), the shape and consistency got them in my mind but not knowing the name I just said German biscuits . It is funny those items we can found at the Lidl supermarkets chain which in Italy sells most of the best foreign items, with lot of German and US articles especially during special holiday seasons in those countries … and we refer to the delicious German biscuits Lidl sells (since the name is difficult to remember for us).
Well, they said that if you are the starter, start eating durian in the form of ice-cream first as it is not too strong like the fresh fruit @AdrianLunsong
Those who grew up eating durian don’t find fresh durian smelly or too strong but those who grew up without it and start to eat when they are elder cannot really take it!
,green 
, orange 
,pink 
and purple 
dishes! And if you’re new to it all, the challenge is really simple. All you have to do is to try and name all the dishes that you see in the images posted. They are all numbered and I’ve also provided zoomed-in images that show the dishes slightly better!
So, I’m hoping someone in the community might recognise what it is! I’m thinking it might be a Korean style/type dish! Help!!!
And also, I’ve recently completed the edit of Episode 2 of the #LocalGuidesKitchen video series where I had @Lusianaa guide me on how to make moss pudding (puding lumut in Indonesian). The live stream was cut short because of technical issues so, now, you can finally watch how the episode proceeded! You can watch it here.
I’m familiar with this one, but don’t know the name.
Well done on 
but I thought it had origins from America and, erm, I’m not a huge fan of them! 
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… it is nice to see the different perception we have based on what we commonly use in our countries, or commonly get used with.
