Greek cuisine gyro, moussaka, dolmades, yuvarlakia and keftethes with the neighboring countries. To an even greater extent it is influenced by Italian cuisine and cuisines from other neighboring south European countries, and thus, especially in southern regions and the islands it includes several kinds of pasta, like hyllopites, gogkes and tziolia. Greek cuisine has a culinary tradition of some 4,000 years and is a part of the history and the culture of Greece. Its flavors change with the season and its geography. Greek cookery, historically a forerunner of Western cuisine, spread its culinary influence, via ancient Rome, throughout Europe and beyond. It
Vegetable soups in Filipino cuisine cabbage ("repolyo"), lemon grass ("tanglad"), "Momordica charantia" ("ampalaya"), young luffa ("patola"), unripe papaya ("kapayas"), and chayote ("sayote"). It may also be seasoned with pork, beef, chicken, fish stock and salt. Variations of this dish may contain coconut milk. Other variations may contain fresh or dried fish ("bulad" or "uga"), shrimp, mussels or clams. In the United States where "Moringa oleifera" may be hard to find, clover leaves may serve as a substitute. Vegetable soups in Filipino cuisine Vegetable soups in Filipino cuisine, called "utan", "utan bisaya", "sinabawang gulay", "law-oy" or "laswa" in various regional Philippine languages, are vegetable soups usually