🍜 Weekly meal plan
Asian Food Tour
Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, India and Indonesia on your plate. Seven days of Asian flavours, spices and cooking techniques.
📅 Full weekly plan
| Day | Lunch | Dinner |
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| Monday |
Kottu
Kottu roti is Sri Lanka's most recognisable street food — a chopped mixture of roti bread, eggs, vegetables, and chicken or beef stir-fried on a hot griddle.
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Nasi Uduk
Nasi uduk is the fragrant coconut rice that defines Jakarta's street breakfast, a tradition believed to have emerged from the Betawi (the city's…
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| Tuesday |
Kimbap
Kimbap — literally seaweed rice — is South Korea's national snack and the perfect food for picnics, long journeys, or a quick lunch.
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Laksa
Laksa is a spiced noodle soup that defines the Peranakan — the mixed Malay-Chinese — culinary tradition of maritime Southeast Asia.
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| Wednesday |
Coconut Rice
Coconut rice is a staple across Southeast Asian, South Asian, and Caribbean cuisines — a simple technique with a surprisingly aromatic result.
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Dhal
Dhal is the daily bread of the Indian subcontinent — eaten every single day in millions of homes from Punjab to Tamil Nadu, from the street-food…
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| Thursday |
Gado-Gado
Gado-gado is an Indonesian salad of boiled and blanched vegetables, fried tofu and tempeh, and hard-boiled egg, brought together by a thick peanut sauce poured warm at the table.
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Rendang
Rendang originates in the Minangkabau highlands of West Sumatra, developed as a preserved dish: by reducing the coconut milk completely and frying…
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| Friday |
Kung Pao Chicken
Kung Pao Chicken — 宫保鸡丁, Gōngbǎo Jīdīng — is a classic dish of Sichuan province, created in honour of Ding Baozhen, the 19th-century governor who…
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Nihari
Nihari takes its name from the Arabic word for morning — nahar — because this was traditionally a dish eaten at dawn, after fajr prayers, by the workers and nawabs of Mughal Delhi.
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| Saturday |
Ayam Penyet
Ayam penyet emerged in Surabaya, East Java, in the 1990s, as a street-food innovation combining traditional chicken-frying techniques with the…
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Bún bò Huế
Bún bò Huế comes from the former imperial capital of Huế in central Vietnam, where it is one of the city's defining dishes.
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| Sunday |
Mie Goreng
Mie goreng — literally "fried noodles" in Indonesian — is one of the archipelago's most popular street foods, a perfect example of how immigrant…
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Pad Thai
Pad Thai is Thailand's national street dish — a rapid rice-noodle stir-fry born in 1930s Bangkok, when the government promoted wheat noodles over…
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🛒 Complete shopping list
All ingredients for the week, sorted alphabetically. Estimated ~€50–65 for 2 people.
~€50–65 / week
182 ingredients
- Vegetables & herbs
- Meat & fish
- Dairy & eggs
- Dry goods
- Sauces & oils
- Miscellaneous
- Pantry staples
Why plan meals in advance?
- Reduce food waste by up to 30%
- Save time and money — one shopping trip
- Eat healthier
- Eliminate the daily "what should I cook?" stress