Food-Food Name-Names Trivia Quiz

Answer: Hawaii

Lomi lomi salmon is a cold side dish of diced raw salted salmon, diced fresh tomato and diced sweet Maui onions. It may also contain green onions, red chili peppers, and/or cucumber. Lomi lomi is a Hawaiian word mean "massage" and refers to the preparation of rubbing the ingredients into the fish using the hands.

Answer: France/French

The term bonbon arose in 17th Century France and applied only to chocolate-robed (or fondant-robed) treats. Over time, the term came to mean any kind of candy and this is its modern meaning in French. The term is a reduplicant constructed from the French word "bon" meaning good. A literal translation would be "goody goody" which is not far off the mark.

Answer: cocoa

A cup of steaming cocoa is also known as "hot chocolate" in the US and as "drinking chocolate" in Britain.

Answer: fu-fu

The Jones Soda Company, well known for introducing exotic and surprising flavoured drinks such as "turkey and gravy," produces a cane-sugar soda called "Fufu Berry." This is a fruit punch as there is no such thing as a fufu berry. Fu-fu can also be spelled as foo-foo.

Answer: shabu shabu

Shabu shabu is sometimes compared to sukiyaki but that dish differs in that it tends to be sweeter (in the broth) and is often cooked all at once rather than a bit at a time. Both dishes are indebted to the ancient Chinese hot pot method of cooking. A meal of shabu shabu is often completed by adding rice or noodles to the stock, enriched by all that has been cooked in it, and consuming the result as a soup.

Answer: Hot chili peppers and a sauce made from them

Piri piri is the Portuguese term, pili pili is the Swahili term, peri peri is the Malawian term and pil pil is the Basque term. The African Bird's Eye Chili is thought to have been brought by Columbus from the Americas to Europe and then carried by the Portuguese to Africa. The chilies and the sauce are both fiery hot to the taste.

Answer: a very spicy dish with chili oil, Sichuan peppers and pork

Dandan noodles or dandanmian is a dish from the Sichuan region of China. It was sold by street vendors who carried it in pots suspended from poles. The word for the poles was dandan, from which the food's name derived: noodles carried on a pole. Like many dishes in Sichuan cooking, this one is hot hot.

Answer: tiny granules or spheres of dried semolina flour which are steamed for service

Couscous has been made and eaten in Northern Africa since before written records of such things were kept. It is also popular in Europe and North and South America. The French term for a steamer made especially for this purpose is couscoussière.

Answer: food

"Kaukau" is a pidgin slang word meaning "food" or "to eat." The native Hawaiian term for food is `ai. "Kaukau" may derive from the Hawaiian word for table (pâkaukau) or from a Chinese word for food (chow chow).

Answer: babas

This dessert was invented in France around 1835 but derived from much older desserts made on the same principal: some kind of sweet cake soaked in some kind of flavourful alcoholic liquor. The modern version ("baba au rhum') is served by Alain Ducasse as one of his specialties.