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Open 7 days a week
Mon – Sat: 9am – 6.30pm
Sundays: 10.30am – 5.30pm
Welcome to our blog!
For lovers of all oriental cuisine!
Join us in the discovery of delicious recipes and ingredients, share your own favourite dishes and keep up to date on the latest news and events - not to mention special offers!
We are an Oriental foods specialist, providing the finest oriental ingredients including: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Filipino, Indian, Singaporean and more!
Our UK branches are located across Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes - catering to many local restaurants and of course the huge amount of people who love Oriental cuisine!
We sell fresh, frozen, dried, pickled, preserved and wholesale goods. You won't find our ingredients in your local supermarket for an authentic fish head curry or for the best spring rolls in the world!
Central Oriental is a family business and were one of the first businesses to import Oriental ingredients into the UK.
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Recent Recipes
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Tempura!
Everyone’s favourite and if you haven’t tried it – you are missing out! Tempura is a popular Japanese dish where seafood and vegetables are deep fried in a light crispy batter. Common ingredients in traditional tempura include: Seafood: Prawn, shrimp, squid, scallop, anago (conger eel), ayu (sweetfish), crab, and a wide variety of fish Vegetables: bell [...]
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Chilli Crab Recipe
CHILLI CRAB RECIPE INGREDIENTS: 1 Dungeness Crab (about 2 lb size) 1 sprig of coriander (chopped for garnishing only) 1 tablespoon of sugar 2 tablespoons of tamarind juice Salt to taste 2 tablespoons of cooking oil 1/4 cup of water SPICE PASTE: 8 dried red chilies (soaked in hot water and deseeded) 1 tablespoon of taucheo [...]
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In the beginning, there was food
W0w, our very first blog post! Here at Central we are very excited to be joining the online world and are very keen on exploring and creating online communities dedicated to the discovery of new and exciting flavours of the East! This blog is for all those who are passionate about Oriental cuisine, those who [...]
Can you let me know if you can supply me with some lotus seed paste
thanks
Yep, we stock lotus seed paste in all our branches. Unfortunately we can’t do home delivery at this time.
If you need help with anything else, feel free to send us an email at: templefoods@gmail.com
Happy New Year!