Cultural appropriation is the act of taking or lending ideas, arts, foods, fashion styles and iconic objects from other cultures in another country (Ziff and Rao,1997). It has been around since the colonisation era. After that globalisation had allowed interactions with different groups of people which allowed more cultural appropriation. However, some people still consider it as stealing of intellectual properties, traditional knowledge and unique expressions without permission from a cultural community that does not belong to the individual. There are four types of cultural appropriation which are mainly exchange, dominance, exploitation and transculturation (Rogers, 2006). Cultural exchange is a reciprocal transfer of artefacts, rituals or technologies between cultures with equal levels of power. Cultural dominance is the use of influence or control in a context in which the dominant culture has been appropriated by the subordinated culture. Cultural exploitation is the appropriation of a subordinated culture by the dominant culture without permission or compensation. Transculturation is culturally created from multiple cultures such that identifying of the single origin of the formal culture is problematic. In this essay, it will explain mostly on exploitation on cultural appropriation. It will be narrowed down to the appropriating specific foods or cuisines like chilli crab, bak kut teh and nasi lemak in South-East Asia as well as burritos and spaghetti in the Western