How to pronounce Apong

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /apoŋ/. In plain English letters that is AH-pong, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Apong?

Apong is a drink of India. Where it comes from: Arunachal Pradesh. People usually eat it on festive days. Its main ingredients are rice. It tastes sour.

Where Apong comes from

Apong is one of 63 signature dishes of India on this map. See all dishes from Assam.

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• Assam tea অসম চাহ · Drink · Assam

  Assam tea is a black tea named after Assam, where it is produced, made from the native Assam variety of the tea plant.

• Hyderabadi biryani हैदराबादी बिरयानी · Rice dish · Hyderabad

  Biryani reached India with Persian and Mughal cooks, and Hyderabad, ruled for two centuries by the Nizams, made its own version the city's signature.

• Masala dosa ಮಸಾಲೆ ದೋಸೆ · Main dish · Udupi, Karnataka

  A dosa is a thin, crisp pancake of fermented rice and black-gram batter, and dosas have been eaten in south India for centuries.

• Butter chicken मुर्ग़ मखनी · Main dish · Delhi

  Butter chicken, or murgh makhani, has a clear modern origin.

• Vada pav वडा पाव · Street food · Mumbai

  Vada pav is Mumbai's street food: a spiced potato fritter in chickpea batter, pressed into a soft bread roll called pav with garlic and green chutneys and a fried chilli.

Food of India

Dishes like Apong in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Apong:

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• Awamori 泡盛 · Drink · Okinawa, Japan

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