by Henry Chew

Created on: June 17, 2009

Something tells me that I am going to enjoy writing this piece. I love food, and have always been interested in dishes prepared by people from different cultures and races.I think in today's world we are quite lucky in a sense that there are all kinds of foods available to us. Fancy restaurants and international hotels are able to offer a variety of cuisines from all over the world. I have to admit, that I can be quite adventurous when it comes to my choice of food, when traveling abroad. I remembered just last year, me and my colleagues ate some bats during a business trip to Indonesia. The experience satisfied my curiosity over its taste and I learned that they actually are quite good if stewed with soy sauce. But back at home, I tend to be more predictable and prefer foods that I have always liked since young. So here is my list of top 10 favorite foods rated from number 10 to number 1.

#10. Tom Yam

Tom Yam dish from Thailand is famous for its distinct spicy and sour flavored soup. The soup is made from combinations of spices, plant leaves and lime juice. Seafood, poultry or beef is added into the soup to make it sweeter. The Tom Yam dish is served with fragrant jasmine rice or just rice. This dish will send excitement through your taste buds like nothing else. When I first tried it, I got choked as I never felt so spicy and so sour at the same time. My Thai acquaintance laughed at me but encouraged me to finish it. After that first experience with Tom Yam, I kept on wanting for more.

#9. Kimchi Jjigae or Korean Kimchi Soup

No need to travel all the way to Korea for this healthy soup. Almost all Korean restaurants serve them. Kimchi alone is not that tasty as it is a kind of fermented vegetables. Normally the choice of vegetables would be cabbage, but sometimes they would use cucumber also. The vegetables are fermented in a brine of ginger, garlic, scallions and chilly pepper. The result is a super healthy food and I kid you not. Kimchi is undeniably one of the world healthiest food ever invented. Health Magazine named kimchi in its list of top 5 "World's Healthiest Food" and it is for the same reason that it ended up in this list of mine. A small serving of kimchi contains 80% of daily recommended intake of vitamin C and carotene. It is also rich in vitamin A, Thiamine, Riboflavin, Iron and lactic acid bacterium that aid our digestive system. Some researchers also claim that it reduces growth of cancer cells in a patient. Kimchi soup is normally

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