Cambodian cuisine distinctive and complex spice blend called "kroeung." Other ingredients for kroeung used by Khmers in America are lemongrass, turmeric powder, garlic, prahok, and lemon leaf. This is an important aromatic paste commonly used in Cambodian cooking. Many vegetables used in Khmer cuisine are also used in Chinese cuisine. Vegetables such as winter melon, bitter melon, luffa, water spinach and yardlong beans can be found in soups and stews. Oriental squash can be stewed, stir fried or sweetened and steamed with coconut milk as a dessert. Vegetables like mushrooms, cabbage, baby corn, bamboo shoots, fresh ginger, "kai-lan" ("Chinese kale"), snow peas,
Assyrian cuisine be consumed to treat upset stomachs and indigestion. Traditional Assyrian coffee is made in large bronze Jezve (which is covered with Assyrian imagery) and is served sweetened, similar to Turkish coffee. Turkish coffee which is a hold-over from Ottoman times is often used the same way though with a twist of fortune telling called "finjan" which is a form of tasseography. When the coffee is consumed the fortune teller will look at the bottom of the cup and read you your future. Assyrian cuisine Assyrian cuisine is the cuisine of the indigenous ethnic Assyrian people, Eastern Aramaic speaking Syriac Christians