Baklava Baklava Baklava (, , or ; ) is a rich, sweet dessert pastry made of layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened and held together with syrup or honey. It is characteristic of the cuisines of the Levant, the Caucasus, Balkans, Maghreb, and of Central and West Asia. The word "baklava" is first attested in English in 1650, a borrowing from Ottoman Turkish . The name baklava is used in many languages with minor phonetic and spelling variations. Historian Paul D. Buell argues that the word "baklava" may come from the Mongolian root ' 'to tie, wrap up,
Mandu (food) Mandu (food) Mandu () are dumplings in Korean cuisine. "Mandu" can be steamed, boiled, pan-fried, or deep-fried. The styles also vary across regions in Korean Peninsula. "Mandu" were long part of Korean royal court cuisine, but are now found in supermarkets, restaurants, and snack places such as "pojangmacha", "bunsikjip" throughout Korea. The name is cognate with the names of similar types of meat-filled dumplings along the Silk Road in Central Asia, such as Uyghur "manta" (), Turkish ', Kazakh "mänti" (), Uzbek ', and Armenian "mantʿi" (). Chinese "mántou" (; ) is also considered a cognate, which used to mean