Secondly, authentic recipes are prepared with some of the best cooking methods like stewing, grilling, and baking, which require the least amount of oil, and hence they preserve the food's nutrition to the fullest. It also means that other cooking methods like frying, deep frying, and stir frying were introduced to this area by foreign countries like China and Japan. Thai food is also hugely influenced by Dutch, French, and Portuguese cuisine and other nearby Asian regions like Vietnam, Burma, Malaysia, and Laos.