East Asian food language wiki

Language translation of some cuisine from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and China.

• nasi - cooked rice
• goreng - fried
• ayam - chicken
• lemak - creamy (from coconut milk)
• mie (miàn)- noodles (Indonesian/Malay: mie, Chinese: miàn)
• char - stir fried (Cantonese)
• kway teow (guǒ tiáo)- flat rice noodles (Hokkien: kway teow, Mandarin: guǒ tiáo)
• chow (chǎo) - stir fried (Cantonese: chow, Mandarin: chǎo)
• lo (lāo)- stirred (Cantonese: lo, Mandarin: lāo)
• mian (miàn)- noodles (Mandarin)
• la (lā)- to pull or stretch (refers to hand-pulled noodles)

Some dishes made up of above words

• chow mein
• hokkien mie (Hokkien referring to region)
• mie goreng 
• nasi lemak ayam goreng
• nasi goreng
• mee siam (Siam referring to region)
• char kway teow
• la mian