Confinement food refers to a series of dishes and soups specially planned for postpartum mothers, with two main purposes of helping them to recover after childbirth and promoting breast milk production. Many Asian communities around the world have the practice of serving confinement food to mothers right after they give birth, including Chinese, Indian, Malay, Indonesian, Korean, and Japanese. Asian confinement foods are often prepared using healthier cooking methods like steaming, braising, stewing and stir frying, and served warm to the mothers. Confinement food has a long history in many Asian cultures, and each culture tends to prepare them with certain ingredients that are traditionally believed to be beneficial to new mothers.