🍜 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.

2 people 7 days ~€50–65 / week 183 ingredients

📅 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.
Chili Crab Chili crab is Singapore's most iconic dish, created in the 1950s and now deeply embedded in the city's food identity.
Tuesday
Nasi lemak Nasi lemak — whose name means fatty or rich rice in Malay — is Malaysia's national dish and the nation's breakfast.
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.
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.
Lok Lak Lok lak is Cambodia's best-known beef dish, born from the confluence of French colonial cooking and Chinese immigrant techniques.
Thursday
Coconut Rice Coconut rice is a staple across Southeast Asian, South Asian, and Caribbean cuisines — a simple technique with a surprisingly aromatic result.
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.
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.
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.
Saturday
Kimbap Kimbap — literally seaweed rice — is South Korea's national snack and the perfect food for picnics, long journeys, or a quick lunch.
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…
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…
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…

🛒 Complete shopping list

183 ingredients

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