The food in Avatar: Seven Havens leans South Asian and Korean. Pavi’s favorite snack is kachori, a fried, stuffed pastry, and Jae’s favorite meal is kimchi jjigae, a Korean kimchi stew. Book 1 also features mochi on sticks and lotus fritters at Ellora’s festival, bitter melon spring rolls, morning chai, and a cafeteria food fight with bowls of curry rations. Almost all of it is real food you can make or buy.
Updated November 3, 2026 · Food lines checked against the episode transcripts for Episodes 1 and 4, and episode recaps for Episodes 5 and 8. Light spoilers for Book 1.
Every food in Avatar: Seven Havens Book 1
| Food | In the show | Real-world version |
|---|---|---|
| Kachori | Pavi’s favorite snack (Ep. 1 and 4) | Fried pastry stuffed with spiced lentils |
| Kimchi jjigae | Jae’s favorite meal (Ep. 1) | Korean kimchi stew |
| Mochi sticks | Ellora’s festival (Ep. 1) | Rice dumplings on a skewer (dango) |
| Lotus fritters | Ellora’s festival (Ep. 1) | Fried lotus stem or root |
| Chai | A joke about the Avatar’s morning chai (Ep. 1) | Spiced milk tea |
| Bitter melon spring rolls | A local shop’s specialty (Ep. 4) | Spring rolls filled with bitter melon |
| Sesame buns, congee and oatmeal | Ellora’s food supplies (Ep. 4) | Sesame buns and rice porridge |
| Curry rations | The cafeteria food fight (Ep. 5) | Curry and rice |
| Pudding and tea | The Envoys summit (Ep. 8) | Pudding and tea |
Kachori: Pavi’s favorite snack
In the first episode, Agam, a local baker, loudly complains that a customer didn’t want her “fresh, delicious kachoris” and says she’ll have to throw them out, knowing Pavi is listening from her hiding spot. It’s a small kindness to a kid living on Ellora’s streets, and it tells you a lot about Pavi in one scene. By Episode 4, she knows the snack so well she says, “I’d recognize those kachori crumbs anywhere.”
The real thing: kachori is a deep-fried, flaky pastry from North India, usually stuffed with spiced lentils or onion and served with tamarind chutney. Indian grocery stores sell them fresh or frozen, and they reheat well in an oven or air fryer.
Kimchi jjigae: Jae’s favorite meal
When Pavi says she doesn’t trust anyone, Jae tries to win her over by telling her things about himself, including “My favorite meal is kimchi chigae.” It’s the most Jae way to earn trust: honest, a little awkward and about food.
The real thing: kimchi jjigae is a Korean stew made with well-fermented kimchi, usually with pork or tofu, and served bubbling hot with rice. Older, sourer kimchi makes a better stew, so it’s a good use for the jar that’s been in your fridge a while.
Festival food: mochi sticks, lotus fritters and chai
Ellora’s festival in Episode 1 is the best food scene of the season. Someone calls out, “Save some mochi for me, Lulu!” and Lulu promises to save five sticks. Jae’s squad keeps trying to get lotus fritters, and Captain Karthik eventually orders Jae to take a break: “In other words, go get some fritters. That’s an order.” A squad member even jokes that maybe the Avatar “just needed her morning chai.”
- Mochi sticks: chewy rice dumplings on a skewer, sold as dango in Japan. Asian grocery stores carry them, and the three-color kind looks great on a party table.
- Lotus fritters: the show doesn’t say what’s in them, but lotus is fried all over Asia. In India, sliced lotus stem (kamal kakdi) is fried into pakoras, and in Japan lotus root is a classic tempura.
- Chai: black tea simmered with milk, sugar and spices like cardamom and ginger. It’s easy to make with tea bags.
Bitter melon spring rolls and Episode 4’s food
Episode 4 is all about food, because raiders called the Faceless are stealing Ellora’s supplies. During a raid on a grain mill, Daemin yells, “You’re depriving Ellora of its oatmeal and congee!” Later, Agam hands the group free samples and spare bitter melon spring rolls for the road. One of the twins takes a bite: “The bitter melon is really bitter.” Then: “Just how I like it!”
The episode also has stale sesame buns (“So stale and crunchy!”) and a pot of blubber tagine at Uki’s family home, which is the one dish on this list you probably can’t recreate.
The real thing: bitter melon is a bumpy green gourd eaten across South Asia, China and the Philippines, and it really is that bitter. Slicing it thin and salting it for 15 to 20 minutes tames the bitterness before you fry it or roll it into spring rolls.
The curry ration food fight and the pudding guy
In Episode 5, Pavi escapes trouble in a cafeteria by bending every bowl of curry rations into the air and flinging them in all directions, which starts an all-out food fight. In Episode 8, a chef carrying pudding keeps getting knocked over by a paper airplane at the Envoys summit, and the tea served there is so bad that everyone notices, a hint that the caterers aren’t who they say they are.
A Seven Havens watch-party menu
Planning to rewatch Book 1 or wait for Book 2 with friends? This menu covers the whole first season and works without any cooking skills:
- Kachori with tamarind chutney from an Indian grocery, warmed in the oven.
- Three-color mochi sticks for the festival episode.
- Vegetable spring rolls, with a few bitter melon ones for anyone brave enough.
- Masala chai, brewed strong with milk.
- Kimchi jjigae as the main meal if you want something hot. Skip the blubber tagine.
More Avatar: see the full Avatar: Seven Havens episode guide, our 15 strongest Avatar characters and the most expensive Avatar Magic cards.
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