To find international flavors, take a walk through a food court in Chinatown

If you’re looking for an international culinary expedition, look no further than the Maunakea Marketplace Food Court and vicinity where you’ll find cuisine from at least 11 of the 21 APEC member nations.

You’ll even experience the ambience of a bustling, crowded Asian food bazaar complete with worthy edibles ranging from whole fried fish to mysterious blackened meat.

Triple One covers three nations at once with its menu of Chinese, Malaysian and Singaporean food, including laksa, a merger of all three cultures in a bowl of spicy seafood curry noodles. Just like neighboring 369 Singapore, it also offers nasi goreng, or fried rice, the national dish of Indonesia.

A couple of stalls within the marketplace honor Korean, Japanese and Thai traditions, but the number of Filipino food counters has increased. Among them are Nestor’s, Aje’s Cafe and H&J Cafe, where dishes range from the innocuous pork and vegetable stew, pinakbet, to blood stew.

You don’t even have to know how to read to order here. Triple One and 369 Singapore both have pictorial menus, and at the others, you can see what’s being offered in the steam trays and merely point to the dishes that look the most flavor-worthy.

Walk around more and you’ll pass a multitude of Vietnamese phó restaurants and eventually make your way to Green Door Cafe at 1110 Nuuanu Ave., where one-woman show Betty Pang cooks up the best Malaysian chicken curry in town.

In a nod to our northern neighbor, Canada, Loco Moco Drive-Inn inKapolei will be offering poutine while APEC is in town, through Nov. 13. The Quebec classic starts with a layer of french fries smothered with brown gravy and cheese curds, which here will be represented by cottage cheese.

Get it while it’s hot at 91-590 Farrington Highway (674-0788).