West Asian cuisine

thumb|Tea served in a tea room at the Shantytown Heritage Park in New Zealand thumb|Tea house in Moscow, 2017

thumb|A concave tawa designed for use in a home kitchen A tava(h) / tawa(h) (mainly on the Indian subcontinent), saj (in Arabic), sac (in Azerbaijani and Turkish), and other variations, is a metal cooking utensil. The tawa is round and is usually curved: the concave side is used as a wok or frying pan, the convex side for cooking flatbreads and pancakes. There are also flat tawas.