Asian Food Tier List: 16 Cuisines, Head-to-Head
All 16 cuisines here, ranked by 39 players. Japanese leads: it wins 78.5% of its matchups (n = 121) and was champion in 13 of 39 brackets. Disagree? Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
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NepaliMomos, dal bhat
FilipinoAdobo, lumpia, sinigang
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Asian Cuisines: the community’s best
Win rate across 585 head-to-head picks from 39 finished brackets. n is the number of matchups behind each win rate; only entrants with 30 or more are listed.
| # | Asian cuisine | W–L | Win rate | vs .500 | Titles | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 95–26 | 78.5% | 13 | 121 | ||
| 2 | ChineseDim sum, stir fry, dumplings | 88–30 | 74.6% | 9 | 118 | |
| 3 | 74–33 | 69.2% | 6 | 107 | ||
| 4 | ThaiPad thai, curries, tom yum | 58–36 | 61.7% | 3 | 94 | |
| 5 | 49–36 | 57.6% | 3 | 85 | ||
| 6 | 44–37 | 54.3% | 2 | 81 | ||
| 7 | 44–38 | 53.7% | 1 | 82 | ||
| 8 | 23–39 | 37.1% | 0 | 62 |
Asian Cuisines: the community tier list
From 585 head-to-head picks in 39 finished brackets. Placed by win rate, steadied toward 50% for entrants with few matchups: S is 75% or more, A 60%, B 50%, C 40%, D 25%.
Stier, win rate 75% or more
- Japanese
Atier, win rate 60% or more
- Chinese
- Korean
- Thai
Btier, win rate 50% or more
- Indian
- Vietnamese
- Taiwanese
Ctier, win rate 40% or more
- Nobody yet
Dtier, win rate 25% or more
- Indonesian
- Filipino
- Pakistani
- Singaporean
- Bangladeshi
- Malaysian
- Nepali
- Sri Lankan
Ftier, win rate 0% or more
- Burmese
How the Asian Cuisines bracket works
This Asian cuisine tier list is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Japanese or Thai? Chinese or Korean? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. A straight list invites you to hedge. A matchup does not, and that is what makes the final 16-deep order worth screenshotting.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), with every one of the 16 choices in the field. Entrants are drawn by a seed that changes daily, and New draw picks a fresh one, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 16 entrants
All 16 entrants are listed below, including Japanese, Thai, Chinese and Korean. Updated
- JapaneseSushi, ramen, tempuraPhoto: Sixgimic / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- ThaiPad thai, curries, tom yumPhoto: Takeaway / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- ChineseDim sum, stir fry, dumplingsPhoto: El Mono Español / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- KoreanBBQ, bibimbap, kimchiPhoto: TheDream 더 드림 더드림 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5
- IndianCurry, naan, biryaniPhoto: Gerda Arendt / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- VietnamesePho, banh mi, spring rollsPhoto: Matsuoka.A / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- FilipinoAdobo, lumpia, sinigang
- IndonesianNasi goreng, satay, rendangPhoto: Zul Rosle / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- MalaysianLaksa, nasi lemak, roti canaiPhoto: Meandkancil2020 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- TaiwaneseBeef noodle soup, bubble teaPhoto: 迷惘的人生 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- SingaporeanChili crab, Hainanese chickenPhoto: Terence / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
- BurmeseMohinga, tea leaf saladPhoto: Wagaung at English Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- NepaliMomos, dal bhatPhoto: Subhashish Panigrahi / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sri LankanHoppers, kottu rotiPhoto: Lankan Foodie / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- PakistaniNihari, biryani, seekh kebabPhoto: Jess Lander / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- BangladeshiHilsa fish, biryaniPhoto: Tahmid Munaz / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Tier list instead?
Load all 16 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
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Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Answer as if both options were in front of you and you could only eat one.
- The default run puts all 16 choices in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- Watch for the choice you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Questions people ask
What is the best Asian cuisine?
According to 39 BracketRanker players, Japanese (Sushi, ramen, tempura). It wins 78.5% of its head-to-head matchups (n = 121) and was champion in 13 of 39 brackets (33.3%).
How many choices are in the Asian Cuisines bracket?
The pool holds 16 choices. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16 slots.
Which choices are included?
Japanese, Thai, Chinese, Korean, Indian, Vietnamese, Filipino, Indonesian, Malaysian, Taiwanese, Singaporean and Burmese, plus 4 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Asian Cuisines bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up, and your progress is saved on this device after every pick.
Is this a asian cuisines tier list or a ranking?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other choice grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two choices that never met. If you would rather place the choices into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 16 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community asian cuisines ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the Asian Cuisines community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 16 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which choices are included?
Use the bracket maker: add your own choices, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 16 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.