Yeah, so, I looked into all of this when I created my thread a few years ago ...
The grouping which most accurately describes my region of interest is "Far East" ...
Trans-Pacific is pretty accurate, too ...
Asian doesn't work, it's much, much, larger ... and, in fact, included places where I've cooked their food pretty extensively in the past ...
I had a lot of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean and Moroccan food in previous chapters of my life, and was getting really into curry when I first came around these parts ...
Far Eastern food seems like the best yin to my yang, the diametrically opposite style of eating, and the direction I pull my dietary practices towards imho ...