Turkish cuisine of early Central Asian Turks. The combination of domed metal sač and oklava (the Turkish rod-style rolling pin) enabled the invention of the layered dough style used in börek (especially in "su böreği", or 'water pastry', a salty baklava-like pastry with cheese filling), güllaç and baklava. Börek is the general name for salty pastries made with yufka (a thicker version of phyllo dough), which consists of thin layers of dough. Su böreği, made with boiled yufka/phyllo layers, cheese and parsley, is the most frequently eaten. Çiğ börek (also known as "Tatar böreği") is fried and stuffed with minced meat. Kol
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