🍜 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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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Chili Crab
Chili crab is Singapore's most iconic dish, created in the 1950s and now deeply embedded in the city's food identity.
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| Tuesday |
Nasi lemak
Nasi lemak — whose name means fatty or rich rice in Malay — is Malaysia's national dish and the nation's breakfast.
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Tom Yum
Tom yum is Thailand's most internationally recognized soup, built on a distinct combination of hot, sour, salty, and lightly sweet flavors in a single broth.
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| Wednesday |
Banh Xeo
Bánh xèo — whose name literally means sizzling cake — is a crispy Vietnamese crepe coloured bright yellow by turmeric, made from a batter of rice flour and coconut milk.
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Lok Lak
Lok lak is Cambodia's best-known beef dish, born from the confluence of French colonial cooking and Chinese immigrant techniques.
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| Thursday |
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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Yakitori
Yakitori is the bar food of post-war Tokyo: small skewers of chicken grilled fast over high heat, eaten one at a time with cold beer or sake.
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| Friday |
Kare-Kare
Kare-kare is a Filipino braised stew built around a thick peanut sauce colored deep gold by annatto, with oxtail or beef shank as the primary protein.
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Tempura
Tempura is Edo-period street food at its most refined: a lace-thin batter that crackles around prawns, sweet potato and kabocha rounds, and slim Japanese eggplant.
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| Saturday |
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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Onigiri
Onigiri are older than sushi: rice balls shaped into triangles, discs or barrels with a salted plum, grilled fish or seaweed at the centre have been…
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| Sunday |
Tteokbokki
Tteokbokki is one of South Korea's most popular street foods — cylindrical rice cakes cooked in a thick, spicy sauce made from gochujang, the…
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Shoyu Ramen
Shoyu ramen is Tokyo's style and the oldest of the major ramen families — the bowl that set the template when Chinese noodle stalls opened in the…
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🛒 Complete shopping list
All ingredients for the week, sorted alphabetically. Estimated ~€50–65 for 2 people.
Vegetables & herbs
- Aubergine1 large
- Bamboo shoots100 g
- Bok choy1 large
- Carrots300 g
- Cucumber300 g
- Curry leaves
- Daikon25 g
- Fat spring onions150 g
- Fresh chillies
- Fresh coriander
- Galangal25 g
- Garlic
- Ginger50 g
- Head of lettuce1 small
- Japanese eggplant
- Japanese sweet potato200 g
- Kabocha squash200 g
- Kaffir lime leaves
- Leek200 g
- Lemon wedges
- Lemongrass3
- Lime juice100 ml
- Lime zest
- Long green beans200 g
- Mung bean sprouts200 g
- Onion100 g
- Red onion350 g
- Shallot150 g
- Specialty mushrooms200 g
- Spinach100 g
- Spring onions25 g
- Sweet chili sauce25 ml
- Thai red chillies
- Tomatoes
Meat & fish
- Anchovy stock500 ml
- Beef cut600 g
- Chicken bone stock1.5 L
- Chicken sauce400 ml
- Eomuk150 g
- Ikan bilis50 g
- Imitation crab sticks200 g
- Large prawns400 g
- Live mud crabs1.5 kg
- Narutomaki fish cake4
- Oxtail1.2 kg
- Peeled prawns300 g
- Pork belly700 g
- Prawns300 g
Dairy & eggs
- Eggs19 large
- Full-fat coconut milk1.2 L
- Hard-boiled eggs
Dry goods
- Cylindrical rice cakes500 g
- Japanese short-grain rice500 g
- Long-grain jasmine rice400 g
- Long-grain rice400 g
- Ramen noodles300 g
- Rice50 ml
- Rice flour250 g
- Short-grain white rice350 g
- Steamed rice
Sauces & oils
- Chicken stock1.5 L
- Dashi200 ml
- Gochugaru
- Gochujang50 ml
- Ketchup50 ml
- Mirin
- Oyster sauce50 ml
- Sake
- Sambal oelek50 ml
- Tamarind paste25 ml
- Tomato paste75 ml
Miscellaneous
- A few sesame seeds
- Annatto seeds25 ml
- Bagoong
- Belacan
- Coconut oil75 ml
- Dark soy sauce125 ml
- Fried mantou
- Furikake25 ml
- Godhamba roti650 g
- Nori12
- Palm sugar50 ml
- Pandan leaves
- Pandan leaves tied into a knot
- Sesame seeds
- Shichimi togarashi
- Shishito peppers100 g
- Skinless peanuts50 g
- Sparkling water350 ml
- Sri lankan curry powder
- Strips danmuji
- Tom yum paste25 ml
- Unsweetened desiccated coconut25 g
- Unsweetened peanut butter200 g
Pantry staples
- Black pepper
- Butter
- Cornstarch
- Fish sauce
- Flour
- Kashmiri chilli powder
- Neutral oil
- Rice vinegar
- Salt
- Sesame oil
- Soy sauce
- Sugar
- Turmeric
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