Dapanji to reproduce a Sichuan taste. The dish was served on a big plate by restaurateurs along the Xinjiang highways as a quick fix for hungry truck drivers who often arrived at an odd time of the day. Its rich flavor and heartiness quickly made the dish a favorite of the region, and the dish then spread to the rest of China. The main ingredients are chicken, bell peppers and potatoes, cooked with onions, garlic, ginger, chili peppers, ground cumin, star anise, ground Sichuan peppers, cooking oil, also optionally soy sauce and beer. The chicken is cut into bite size pieces
Hot and sour soup depending on what is available locally to the cook. Possible ingredients include various combinations of pineapple, tomato, ngo gai, fried garlic, papaya, lotus root, Thai basil () and Thai chili. "Tom yum" is a Thai soup flavored with lemon grass, lime, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, fish sauce and chilis. Sour curry (Thai: แกงส้ม, RTGS: Kaeng som) is a soup-like spicy and sour Thai curry. "Sinigang" is a Filipino soup or stew characterized by its sour and savoury taste most often associated with tamarind. "Canh chua" (literally "sour soup"), a sour soup indigenous to the Mekong River region of southern Vietnam,