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Alamang refers to the Filipino word for "tiny shrimps". It is often used to make fermented sauce called Bagoong Alamang. A popular side condiment for a dish called Kare-Kare and partner of sliced green mangos as salad.

Adas refers to "Lentils" in Yemen. Adas also refers to a vegetable dish from Yemen made from lentils cooked with tomatoes, onions, garlic and spices.

Adas is also spelled Addas.

Awamori is an alcoholic beverage indigenous to and unique to Okinawa. It is not a brewed beverage, but distilled from rice as it is also made from rice.

Deutsch: Alligatorbirne / Español: Pera de caimán / Português: Pera de jacaré / Français: Poire d'alligator / Italiano: Pera di alligatore /

Alligator pear is another name for avocado. It is a pear-shaped, thick-skinned tropical fruit with a green buttery flesh used for making salads, fruit juices or guacamole, and many other dishes.

- Aloo Tama (Alu Tama) :

Aloo Tama also known as Alu Tama refers to Nepal's food which simply means "Potato Bamboo Shoots". It is a unique and classic Nepali curry flavor dish. It is a unique dish from Nepal since it uses bamboo shoots as its main ingredient which is a rarely used ingredient in Indian and South Asian curry and Chinese cuisine which rarely use curry.

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Cooking Tip: Bake in the oven with ginger or fennel seeds and grated orange or lemon peel. Use apples in a fruit salad with finely chopped rosemary, poppy seeds or cress grinded. If the apples begin to darken and there is no lemon then dip them peeled in salted water.

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