Southeast Asian cuisine mainly consists of lightly prepared dishes with strong, aromatic seasonings like basil, coriander, lime, lemongrass etc. The ingredients that are commonly utilized in Southeast Asian cuisine are rice, ginger, garlic, chillies, dried onions, sesame seeds, tofu and soy sauce. But, there's one such popular and most ordinarily used ingredient in Southeast Asian cuisine is fish sauce. Fish sauce is valued as a cooking ingredient in Thai, Indonesian and Vietnamese cuisine.