UAE's rainy day delights: Top comfort foods craved during rain

1. Champorado or tsampurado: A sweet chocolate rice porridge from Philippines. Its main ingredients are glutinous rice, cocoa powder, milk or coconut milk, and sugar. It can be served hot or cold at tea time.

2. Ramen noodles: Ramen is a Japanese dish or "pulled noodles". It consists of wheat noodles served in a meat or fish-based broth, often flavoured with soy sauce or miso, and uses toppings such as meat, boiled egg and scallions.

3. Bulalo is a beef dish from the Philippines. It is a light coloured soup that is made by cooking beef shanks and bone marrow until the collagen and fat has melted into a clear broth. It typically includes leafy vegetables, corn on the cob, scallions, onions, garlic, ginger, and fish sauce.

4. Danggit Fried Rice Danggit Fried Rice is a simple fried rice version composed of garlic, cooked white rice, and chopped dried danggit, which is also known as rabbitfish from the Philippines.

5. Malabari Parotta and Beef Fry: A Malabari parotta is a layered flatbread, originating from Kerala in India and made from polished wheat flour. It is usually served with egg curry or a beef fry that involves cooking with spices, chilies, fresh coconut and curry leaves.

6. Pakoda or bhajiya: Pakoda or bhajiya is a fried snack made with spiced chickpea batter from India. It is street food and are basically vegetable fritters.

7. Samosa: A samosa is a fried or baked pastry filled with potatoes, onions, peas, meat, or lentils. It is extremely popular across India as a tea-time snack.

8. Thukpa: It is a soupy noodle soup from Tibet that has filtered down into India. It is usually made in winter and filled with vegetable, dumplings and meat.

9. Kappa: A highly traditional dish made from steamed and cooked tapioca, it is spiced with chillies, curry leaves and fresh grated coconut sometimes. It is very popular in the southern part of India, often served with red fish curry or a chutney made from green chillies called kandhari.

10. French fries: The eternal global favourite across ages, made from cut potatoes, it can be had with various dips or topped with warm cheese sauce.