Baklava Athenaeus. Several sources state that this Roman dessert continued to evolve during the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire into modern baklava. In antiquity the Greek word ' () was also used for Latin ', and the American scholar Speros Vryonis describes one type of plakous, koptoplakous (Byzantine Greek: κοπτοπλακοῦς), as a "Byzantine favorite" and "the same as the Turkish baklava", as do other writers. Indeed, the Roman word "placenta" () is used today on the island of Lesbos in Greece to describe a baklava-type dessert of layered pastry leaves containing crushed nuts that is baked and then covered in honey. Muhammad
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