Krillion Recorded answers
2,182 recorded answers
How to approach it
Fan out through the region's culinary map rather than chasing one famous export. Begin with the everyday staples cooked at home, then move along the coasts for seafood and coconut, inland for wheat breads and dairy, and up into the hills for fermented and smoked preparations. Festivals and religious calendars are another rich seam, since almost every community has sweets and savoury treats tied to specific celebrations. Write down whatever surfaces and check each candidate against the wording: it has to be a genuinely prepared dish with a name of its own, not a raw ingredient or a restaurant invention. Expect a very long list of correct entries, so breadth beats caution. Keeping to one narrow cuisine limits how many valid names you can produce.
Get a hint
Start with the subcontinent's home cooking: the everyday breads, lentil preparations, vegetable dishes and rice plates that families eat several times a week rather than festival showpieces.
A little more
Then widen to celebration and street food: sweets made for weddings and holidays, fried snacks sold at stalls, and the drinks that accompany them, since these often carry distinctive regional names.
One step further
Finally sweep the less obvious corners: coastal seafood preparations, hill-country fermented and smoked foods, and dishes named after the vessel or technique used to cook them.
Reveal answers 2,182
- BolaniRare60points
- Bombay potatoesRare60points
- ChaasRare60points
- Chana masalaRare60points
- Chicken 65Rare60points
- Chicken chettinadRare60points
- Chicken lollipopRare60points
- Chilli chickenRare60points
- Chilli paneerRare60points
- Chole bhatureRare60points
- Chop sueyRare60points
- Chow meinRare60points
- Coconut riceRare60points
- Curd riceRare60points
- Dahi puriRare60points
- Dal baati churmaRare60points
- Dal bhatRare60points
- Dal makhaniRare60points
- DhansakRare60points
- DhoklaRare60points
- DopiazaRare60points
- DosaRare60points
- Dum alooRare60points
- Egg bhurjiRare60points
- Fish fryRare60points
- Goan fish curryRare60points
- Gobi manchurianRare60points
- Hakka noodlesRare60points
- HaleemRare60points
- HalwaRare60points
- HandiRare60points
- IdiyappamRare60points
- JalebiRare60points
- JalfreziRare60points
- Kabuli pulaoRare60points
- KachoriRare60points
- KadhiRare60points
- Kaju katliRare60points
- KarahiRare60points
- Kathi rollRare60points
- KeemaRare60points
- KheerRare60points
- KhichdiRare60points
- KiribathRare60points
- KottuRare60points
- KulchaRare60points
- KulfiRare60points
- Laal maasRare60points
- LadduRare60points
- Lemon riceRare60points
Why these answers count
Scoring here rewards volume and specificity in roughly equal measure. Rarer regional preparations sit at the top of the band: Aab gosht earned 85 points, and so did dozens of entries drawn from household vegetable cooking and festival sweets such as Adadiya and Adhirasam. The single 100-point response indicates that one especially obscure name sat above the rest, but the bulk of accepted answers clustered at 85, which tells you the crowd recognized a very deep bench of genuine dishes. The 60-point tier is where more common or broadly known items landed; still correct, just far less surprising, so they earned a smaller reward. Almost nothing in the reveal looks like a modern restaurant invention or a packaged product, which fits the pattern that traditional, named home preparations survive the check. Practical conclusion: choose the culturally densest branch of the cuisine you know and keep listing named dishes, because the distance between an 85 and a 60 is usually just how local and how specific the name sounds. Guessing one famous dish and stopping is the main way to underperform.