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Sauce Pois refers to Haitian pureed beans that served with rice or polenta. It is made of red, black, white beans or green peas or pigeon peas, scallions, garlic, parsley, thyme and salt to taste. The ingredients are cooked together until tender, half of the cooked beans are pureed and mixed with the whole beans and cook some more until the desired consistency. Sauce Pois is also known as Pois en Sauce. Sauce Pois is pronounced "sos pwa".

Sinki refers to a vegetarian food of Sikkim in India. Sinki is fermented radish tap root prepared during winter, when plenty of fresh radish are still available. Sinki is served as a good appetizer due to the high content of lactic and acetic acid developed during fermentation.

Spinach Poriyal refers to a south Indian sauceless green vegetable dish specifically from the state of Karnataka, India Spinach Poriyal is one of the kinds of South Indian curry which is made from chopped spinach leaves cooked with mustard seeds, whole red chillies, split Bengal gram and freshly grated coconut and curry leaves. Traditionally, it is served as a starter dish, but can also be served anytime of the day.

Serondeng Pandag refers to Brunei's chicken specialty - garlic fried chicken that is wrapped in pandan leaves. Pandan leaves are used extensively in Southeast Asian cooking because of the aroma that it imparts to the food, particulary for rice dishes.

Shehed is Urdu for "Honey" , referring to a sweet food made by certain insects using nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees (the genus Apis) is the one most commonly referred to and is the type of honey collected by beekeepers and consumed by humans.

Seasoned Rice Vinegar refers to a slightly sweet, mild-tasking vinegar made from fermented rice. Seasoned Rice Vinegar is used in Japanese, Korean and Chinese cooking.