Is there a day when Asian food isn’t supremely exciting? It doesn’t matter what kind, any Asian cuisine makes it feel like a holiday (for those of us who don’t eat it every day). Even if I’m ordering sweet and sour chicken for the second time this week – I’m just as excited! I was even happier when I learned I could make my favorites at home with easy Asian recipes.
Today, we’re going to focus mostly on easy Chinese recipes. (I know ‘Asian’ encompasses many, many other countries, but those are for another post.) Primarily, our readers love takeout fakeout recipes for Chinese food. General Tso’s chicken and orange chicken are your faves, and this comes as no surprise to me. I love those dishes too!
What makes Asian food so special? I think it’s secretly the best comfort food out there – made to be eaten in large amounts. 🙂 Plus, the combination of sweet, spicy and sour flavors keep you chowing down for hours.
Americanized variations of Asian recipes are extremely popular. We’re obsessed with Eggroll in a Bowl – need I say more? You’ll even see copycat recipes for famous Asian-inspired fast food like this Panda Express Chow Mein Copycat.
We gathered our favorite Asian recipes for this International Spotlight. Check ’em out – it’s easier to make your favorites than you thought!
International Spotlight: 15 Asian Recipes
- Jared’s General Tso’s Chicken
- General Tso Chicken Dump Dinner – Reader favorite!
- Eggroll in a Bowl
- Budget Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry
- Lil Luna’s Lemon Chicken – Mmm, creamy!
- Vietnamese Egg Rolls
- 30-Minute Ramen and Pork Stir Fry
- Simple Slow Cooker Teriyaki Chicken
- Tasty Pepper Steak
- Baked Chinese Egg Rolls
- Simple Sweet and Sour Pork
- Easy Orange Chicken – Crowd favorite!
- Cashew Chicken Dinner
- Shrimp Fried Rice
- Lil Luna’s Honey Sesame Chicken
 Love international recipes? Check out our other collections:
- International Spotlight: 10 German Recipes
- International Spotlight: 20+ Casserole Recipes From Around the World
- Easy Breakfast Recipes From Around the World
What’s your favorite Asian food?
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Hard to pick just one, but I suppose it would be Hunan Beef. Or for a single food item, baby bok choy.
Hard to say! Sweet and sour chicken, fried shrimp, teriyaki chicken and gyoza. Being gluten and dairy free for the last six months has really put a damper on my ability to enjoy these scrumptious things…bummer.
I absolutely love chicken fried rice. I could eat it for every meal and never get tired of it.
Almost anything with crunchy vegetables.
I absolutely love shrimp egg foo yong and would love to learn how to make it.
cashew chicken
General Tso Chicken is one of my all time favorites but I really love fried rice of any flavor too.
Singapore Rice Noodles
My favorite Asian recipe is Thai peanut chicken – a little spicy, a little hot, and lots and lots of taste!
I love shrimp eggrolls and Mongolian beef.
Sweet and sour pork is the best on my list yet sometimes hard to find these days for take out!
Sweet and sour pork–fried rice — fried dumpling — egg roll — fresh fruit — egg drop soup. and stir fried green beans !
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My favorite is Moo Goo Gai Pan
shrimpfried rice
Chicken chow fun!
Happy Family
A favorite at our house is spicy peanut noodles with spring rolls.
My favorite Asian food is sushi!!
General Tso’s Shrimp
pineapple fried rice is what I usually order
Orange Chicken or Sweet and Sour Pork
Sesame Chicken and Mongolian Beef
I haven’t really tried many Asian foods, but what I’ve tried, I loved. Gotta say that I really love egg drop soup, but am excited to try many more recipes.
almond chicken
Happy Family, Mongolian Chicken, Beef and Broccoli
Anything with shrimp and noodles will be my favorite dish, make it hot please.
Orange Chicken.
Peking Duck
I actually don’t have a favorite, I honestly haven’t tried any.. Thus would be a chance to cook some for myself 🙂
My favorite Asian food is sushi!
I love black pepper chicken, mongolian beef, garlic chicken for starters. Dim sum is a family fav too.
An all-time favorite has to be General Tso’s Chicken … Just spicy enough to tantalize the palate, yet it won’t take the chrome off of your bumper! And, Dim Sum is a tradition for Sunday Brunch!!
General Tso’s Chicken extra extra peppers, hot the better.Could eat this everyday.
My favorite Asian food is hands-down JAPANESE food. It’s so delicious and the flavors to many dishes are not too over powering. The food is always so thought out and I always get this feeling they put a lot of effort into the cooking and the arrangement of the food. When I was in Japan, everything I ate was good, weather it was expensive or cheap, it never disappointed me!
I love Pad See Saw, but I don’t think I have found an Asian dish I didn’t like.
oh my – this looks deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelicious! I would love to have this prize package!
I love most Asian dishes. My favorite would probably be sesame beef
Though in my heart I would really like to say “just about all of them!”, I do have a soft spot for shrimp toast. I wish I had some right now!
Cashew chicken is my favorite, but I really like a lot of Asian dishes.
I love California rolls and steam fried dumplings with wasabi and soy sauce equally!
I have recently started enjoying Asian recipes. My favorite recipe to try so far is Dorayaki.
Sarawak Laksa! ^__^
It’s more of an Americanized Chinese food but i just LOVE leftover cold chicken balls dipped in sweet and sour sauce!
General Tso Chicken is my all time fave!!!
sushi <3
I love, love, love Asian food. Anything with Chicken, Shrimp, Veggies, etc…
I like anything with shrimp in it, and noodles. And make it HOT!
I don’t know how they do it but there’s a place near me that makes shrimp and green beans that are out of this world good. It’s fairly a simple dish but oh so much beyond great tasting. I just can’t get enough of this dish.
Kung Poa Chicken
I love lo mein, mongolian beef, cashew chicken…white rice, cabbage rolls, just all of it!
Hands down—General Tso’s chicken
Eggrolls, dumplings, sesame chicken, or orange beef.
Hard to pick just one – crab rangoons or wonton soup or General Tso’s chicken or…… LOL
Any kind of mooshu!!!
Definately Shrimp in Garlic Sauce!
My all time favorite is Mongolian Beef over steamed rice. Nothing better! Yum!
My favorite is General Tso’s chicken. My favorite to make are egg rolls and Yaki mondu. I got the recipe from an Asian lady at the first Asian restaurant I went to (many moons ago).
I love shrimp and snow peas with shrimp fried rice
I love cashew chicken, lo-mein chicken, most all shrimp dishes. Would love to win the books, then I start
making the dishes at home…
Chicken & Broccoli. But the Chicken Cashew always runs a close second.
While I was stationed in Tainan, Taiwan my favorite was Mongolian BBQ. We would enter the building and pick up a bowl in which we would place the various ingredients that were laid out for us to choose from. After filling the bowl it was delivered to the “chef” who would throw it on a flat surface over a hot fire and cook it up. When it was finished we would retrieve our bowls, sit down, and begin picking up the food with our chop sticks and “chow down”. Very “ding how!!!”
Sesame chicken
I love House Special Fried Rice and Crab Rangoons. I would love to win the Asian cookbooks so I can learn how to cook more dishes.
I love Orange Shrimp, California roll, and Chicken Egg Foo Young. Orange Shrimp was my Mother-in-laws favorite, and the first dish she thought me.
Impossible to choose just one since I have spent time (while in the Air Force) in Japan, Vietnam, Thailand and Phillippines! Pork Fried Rice, Shrimp Fried Rice, Sweet and Sour Pork, Orange Chicken, Gyoza, Sushi, Pancit, Spring Rolls, Egg Rolls.
Orange chicken and spicey rice with egg drop soup.
My favorites fried wontons and crab ragoons.
Springfield Missouri (or Springfield Style) Cashew Chicken. It is my favorite. Crispy fried chunks of white chicken meat with a oyster chicken broth sauce poured over with green onion and toasted cashews on top. All served over steamed or fried rice. It is a simple dish invented by David Leong in 1963 at Springfield Missouri. It is a local and state favorite that has found it’s way across America. There is many different variations to the original recipe and that’s what makes it a wonderful treat to go and try the different styles all around Springfield. It goes great with hot or cold tea served with egg rolls and crab rangoon. It has been our family favorite for years. We even make it at home it is very simple to make.
my favorite is Shrimp Lo-Mein, & Steamed Dumplings. Sorry, couldn’t choose just one!
Anything in peanut sauce but I truly love wonton’s in peanut sauce.
I love General Tso’s Chicken and any veggie dishes. I would love this prize as I am always looking for something new to try.
I love fried dumplings.
Peking duck at a good restaurant, beef and vegetable stir fry if I’m cooking.
My favorite Asian food is an appetizer…pork dumplings either steamed or fried. My husband also would make this his favorite. We usually
make the dumplings together and eat them as an entrée.
Ikura sushi.
I love most Oriental but MooShu , especially pork, is my all time favorite & great egg rolls on the side. Would love a duck sause that includes mashed fruit like apricot or apples in it. Any suggestions?
The Korean BBQ in Hawaii is the absolute best!!!
My favorite Asian food is traditional Japanese “Yakisoba”. With stir fried noodles and vegetables. Have looked for years for a good recipe. Harry 🙂
I love chicken lo mien….with egg drop soup on the side! Allllll good!!!
My favorite Asian food? Anything I can (1) do at home, with ingredients I am likely to have in the pantry, and (2) enjoy with my sweetie in front of the TV in our jammies watching old Godzilla movies!
My favorite is Mongolian Beef by far!