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I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.

Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that's usually working in Asian food.

When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.

My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.

I think that people are getting really excited about different ethnic food, and almost even micro-ethnic food. So it's not just, 'I love Asian,' it's Szechuan or Hunan, this one style from China.

I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it's actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

Spices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I've always loved the Mediterranean flavors.