Our Evolving Appreciation of Asian Cuisines

Walk through most grocery stores and you are bound to come across a variety of Asian ingredients, including noodle kits, fish sauce, miso, tofu, fruits and vegetables native to regions in Asia, bottles of soy sauce, and spice blends to make Indian sauces and Thai curries. Restaurants, too, are offering more authentic Asian fare like noodle dishes, dim sum, banh mi sandwiches, and pho. All of this caters to our ever-evolving tastes for new ingredients and new flavors. With the array of Asian ingr…