I am absolutely shattered, having given up numerous past weekends and weeknights for a deadline that I just met tonight. My mind is fried (mmm…. fried….) so this is a good opportunity to post something I prepared earlier. Here’s a long overdue look at some of my favourite blog posts around the web recently.
Kitchen Butterfly created beautiful nikuman (that’s the Japanese for steamed pork buns for all of us who don’t speak Japanese) and they look very doable at home!
Michele Humes ate KFC in Thailand. If fast food looked like that here, I’d be eating it pretty often.
Butter dips! Even the name of this treat featured at the kitchn sounds a little unhealthy. They’re an easy biscuit that’s cooked in butter rather than have the butter in the dough.
This is Naive created a beautiful pictorial guide to fast food in Singapore (no, not the fast food above but hawker food). It’s a definite must read guide if you’re heading to Singapore for the first time.
Serious Eats features a recipe for salted butter break-ups by Dorie Greenspan (the cookie queen). I love their simplicity and their uneven shapes please me!
Helen of Food Stories makes scrumptious looking pork cheek tacos with blood orange and chipotle. I’ve gotta make them soon while blood oranges are still in season.
Just Bento wrote a guide to ekiben, those special bentos you only get at Japanese train stations.
Green chile biscuits with chorizo and chipotle gravy? Yes, please! I haven’t made biscuits for ages – need to rectify this.
Anger Burger posts about a DIY Japanese candy sushi kit. The flavour sounds vile but it looks fabulous!
Josh at Cooking the Books made rou jia mo, aka a Chinese hamburger. It’s the one thing I never got a chance to try in China but now I can make it at home.
All Things Chill has a recipe for Taiwanese aubergine in 8 minutes. Quick and easy – I like it.
Lizzie of Hollow Legs made fried pickles. Um, hello? Pickles are fab. Deep fried is fab. I think my head just exploded.
Food Jihad covers an amazing looking Yemeni restaurant in Cairo, long before she had to flee due to the crisis. If you’ve not seen them, her first hand view of what happened in Cairo during the revolution is worth reading.
Tamarind and Thyme 
Wed, 9 Mar, 2011 at 21:39
Nothing like a good round up post, love it ^_^ Hope you get some rest soon sister, you sound exhausted.
Wed, 9 Mar, 2011 at 23:09
hope you get some down time soon, take care!
Thu, 10 Mar, 2011 at 14:09
Hope you get the chance to chillax out now…
Interesting blogs on here. You learn so much about food as I’ve never heard of an ebiken before now. Oh I liked the bit about food blogging in Delicious magazine as I prefer to read blogs as they are more immediate and very quick to pick up on trends.
Thu, 10 Mar, 2011 at 19:14
I just love the KFC in Thailand!
I’m not sure what they’d do to English-up a KFC, perhaps put it in a Yorkshire pudding and douse it in gravy?
Fri, 11 Mar, 2011 at 06:22
Hi Su-Lin, greetings from California. My name is Mario and I wanted to say thank you for adding me as a friend on UK Foodblogger. Tamarind and Thyme are great seasonings and a great name for your blog. I write a blog on love and relationships told through stories of Food and Recipes. Please visit my blog when you get a chance, Maybe leave a comment or Follow if you like the writing. That would be great.
Fri, 11 Mar, 2011 at 14:33
Thanks for the mention! I love these round-ups; always good to discover new blogs.
Fri, 11 Mar, 2011 at 21:14
Great list here Su-Lin!
Am back in KL right now and O.M.G. it’s not going to be easy to not get my camera out!
Sun, 13 Mar, 2011 at 00:12
I love these post. 🙂
Mon, 14 Mar, 2011 at 16:57
Sasa: The weekend was fantastic and I almost forgot to come into work again today. 😀 Thank you!
kat: Thank you so much! I’m so glad that you and your friends are safe in Japan!
Robert: Yes, thank you! Chillaxed all weekend! As for the ekiben, it’s been my dream to travel around Japan while feasting on these… love the packaging and the way they highlight local specialities!
Mr Noodles: I didn’t try it when I was in Thailand! Next time! (And next time, my husband will probably think I’ve lost it when I drag him to KFC…)
Mario: I’ll definitely visit your blog. Thank you for dropping by!
Lizzie: My blog reader is utterly cluttered up with so many blogs…it’s nice to get some of them out there to people!
Shu: 😀 Saw your first post already! With food like that, I too would find it hard to keep the camera packed away!
Alison: Thank you!