The cuisine in Timor L’Este is mostly influenced by Southeast Asia and the typical Portuguese dishes from its period under Portuguese influence. Regional popular ingredients are pork, basil, vegetables, fish, rice, corn, tropical fruit, and root vegetables. Like other countries in the region, the food is typically divided into two different categories: non-vegetarian and vegetarian. The cuisine uses mainly rice (since its largely homegrown). Other types of main bases are sweet potatoes, corn, cassava and taro. To add up to the base of every dish there is usually a vegetable component, also with homegrown products such as cow-peas, onions, spinach, and cabbage. Commonly, the dishes combine pork, poultry and goat. Together with meat, fish also occupies a huge range of the food (since after agriculture is the nation’s second biggest sector).