An amazing Chinese satay sauce is called Sha Cha Jiang.
If you would like to make your dal-lentils much tastier, read how to do a South Indian Seasoning.
If you have some salmon caviar kicking around, you can make Japanese style Ikura Spaghetti.
Roasted eggplant dip is called Baba Ganooj, and it goes well with Humus on a Mediteranean platter. Here is a recipe for a gallon of chickpea curry.
And an excerpt from my traveling food diary.
When I was in New Zealand I went diving for, and ate Raw Sea Urchin -- 'Uni' in Japanese.