This marinated fish recipe hails from Myanmar’s Shan State, which borders Thailand, and sees its influences come from the cross-border inclusion of lime and coriander.

Life is like a box of chocolates – especially if you share a stellar dessert recipe. From now until that mother-of-all-treat holidays, Halloween, everything on The Melting Pot is sweet as, including our Lindt chocolate giveaway.

Think you know Middle Eastern food? Think again. Stylish Tehran native and architect Sahar Farzanfar gives a taste of her crave-worthy Iranian comfort foods, from upside-down rice cake with barberries, to lamb & celery leaf stew, and pomegranate-marinated kebabs.

Singaporean food isn’t just chilli crab and Hainanese chicken rice, argues food blogger Penny Cai. It’s also about non-boring breakfasts. So goodbye cereal, and hello steamed ‘chwee kueh’ rice cakes.

VIDEO: Melbourne’s Victoria Thaine – actress, keen home cook and former star of online spoof MasterChef Reject – shares a how-to video for making her Moroccan-style, slow–cooked whole hogget shoulder with broad bean salad & fresh pita.