Explore Asian cuisines through recipes with useful context
Find cooks and recipe sources for a specific cuisine, dish or technique you want to learn.
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The Woks of Life
Family-run recipe blog from a Chinese American family, covering home-style Chinese dishes and other Asian cooking with explanations of technique and ingredients.
Why it is here: Chinese home cooking explained by a family that cooks it daily, with ingredient guides for shoppers new to the cuisine.
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Just One Cookbook
Japanese recipe blog by Nami, who writes in English about everyday home cooking from Japan. Recipes are paired with notes on ingredients and technique.
Why it is here: Reliable Japanese home recipes with clear guidance on pantry items such as dashi, miso and soy sauce.
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Maangchi
Korean cooking site by Emily Kim, known as Maangchi, with recipes and videos for home cooks. Also offers cookbooks and ingredient guides.
Why it is here: Step-by-step Korean recipes taught on video, from everyday side dishes to kimchi and stews.
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Hot Thai Kitchen
Thai recipe site by Pailin Chongchitnant with written recipes and video lessons. Covers classic dishes and ingredient guidance for cooking Thai food at home.
Why it is here: Thai dishes taught by a trained cook, with video lessons and guidance on finding ingredients abroad.
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Spice the Plate
Asian cooking blog with recipes and tips for making traditional and modern dishes at home. Covers many cuisines from the region.
Why it is here: Asian recipes and cooking tips for the home kitchen, spanning traditional dishes and modern variations.
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Chopstick Chronicles
Japanese recipe blog sharing home-style dishes with step-by-step directions. Focuses on cooking Japanese food from scratch.
Why it is here: Japanese home recipes with step-by-step directions, useful for cooks learning the basics of the cuisine.
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Greedy Girl Gourmet
Southeast Asian recipe blog covering dishes from across the region, with step-by-step instructions for home cooks.
Why it is here: Southeast Asian dishes explained for home cooks.
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The Japanese Kitchen
Japanese food blog by Tanpopo Journeys, with recipes for home-cooked dishes. Recipes are shared with notes for cooks outside Japan.
Why it is here: Japanese recipes adapted for cooks abroad, with notes on ingredient choices.
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MIWA's Japanese Cooking
Japanese home cooking site by Miwa, with recipes, meal plans and vegan options. Recipes cover everyday Japanese food.
Why it is here: Everyday Japanese recipes with meal plans and vegan options, helpful for planning a full week of dishes.
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Rasa Malaysia
Asian recipe blog founded by Bee Yinn Low, covering Chinese, Malaysian and other Asian dishes along with American recipes. Focused on easy home cooking.
Why it is here: Easy Asian recipes with a Malaysian perspective, including takeout-style dishes made at home.
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JustHungry
Japanese recipe site written by Makiko Itoh, who covers Japanese home cooking and food culture. Posts include recipes and background on ingredients.
Why it is here: Japanese home cooking with cultural and ingredient background from a long-running blog.
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Japanese Cooking 101
Japanese cooking site with easy recipes and cooking videos covering everyday dishes. Aimed at people learning to cook Japanese food at home.
Why it is here: Easy Japanese recipes with video demonstrations, suited to beginners learning the cuisine.
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Viet World Kitchen
Cooking blog by Andrea Nguyen, a Vietnamese food author, with recipes and writing on Vietnamese and wider Asian cooking and traditions.
Why it is here: Vietnamese cooking from a food writer who teaches technique and ingredients for the home kitchen.
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RecipeTin Japan
Sister site of RecipeTin Eats focused on Japanese home cooking, with home recipes. Covers everyday Japanese dishes with practical instructions.
Why it is here: Japanese home recipes with clear instructions, from a team known for recipe testing.
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Omnivore's Cookbook
Chinese recipe blog by Maggie Zhu, covering home cooking from Chinese cuisines with an aim of making the dishes easy to cook.
Why it is here: Chinese home recipes simplified for Western kitchens, with explanations of key ingredients.
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Hiroko's Recipes
Recipe site by Hiroko Liston, a Japanese cook living in the United States, with Japanese recipes and cooking classes.
Why it is here: Japanese recipes from a cook living abroad, who knows how to source ingredients outside Japan.
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Create Eat Happy
Japanese home-cooking blog with recipes, kawaii bento ideas and sweets, along with step-by-step YouTube cooking videos.
Why it is here: Japanese recipes and cute bento ideas with video, suited to cooks who enjoy playful presentation.
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My Korean Kitchen
Korean recipe blog with easy home-style Korean dishes, written to help cooks outside Korea make them in an ordinary kitchen.
Why it is here: Easy Korean home recipes written for cooks outside Korea.
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HAPPY DONABE LIFE - Mrs. Donabe's Rustic Japanese Kitchen
Blog by Naoko Takei Moore on Japanese cooking with donabe, the Japanese clay pot, along with other rustic Japanese dishes.
Why it is here: Focused on donabe clay pot cooking, a specific Japanese technique that few general recipe sites cover.
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Chef JA Cooks
Japanese home cooking site with simple recipes and cooking lessons, aimed at making Japanese dishes approachable for beginners.
Why it is here: Simple Japanese recipes for beginners, with a straightforward teaching style.
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Kawaling Pinoy
Filipino recipe blog with dishes from the Philippines and other Asian cuisines, written for home cooks.
Why it is here: Filipino recipes written for home cooks, filling out the collection with a cuisine from Southeast Asia.
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Mayuko's Little Kitchen - Homestyle Japanese Cooking
Blog by Mayuko covering homestyle Japanese cooking and food culture, with recipes and posts about regional food in Japan.
Why it is here: Homestyle Japanese recipes with posts on regional food culture.
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China Sichuan Food
Chinese recipe blog focused on Sichuan and broader Chinese home cooking, with recipes and ingredient guides.
Why it is here: Sichuan and other Chinese regional recipes with ingredient guides for home cooks.
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Kitchen Princess Bamboo
Japanese recipe site covering home dishes, with recipes and guides to Japanese ingredients and cooking.
Why it is here: Japanese home recipes and ingredient basics for cooks new to the cuisine.
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Sushi Day
Sushi-focused site covering nigiri, maki and sushi making at home, with explanations of ingredients and techniques.
Why it is here: A dedicated resource on making and understanding sushi, for cooks who want to try rolling at home.
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What To Cook Today
Asian recipe and tutorial blog with tried recipes for home cooks, covering a range of dishes and techniques.
Why it is here: Asian recipes and tutorials for home cooks, with step-by-step guidance.
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Contemplating Sweets
Recipe blog covering Japanese and Hawaiian sweets, snacks and dinners, aimed at home cooks who enjoy making treats.
Why it is here: Japanese and Hawaiian sweets and snacks, adding a specific regional angle to the collection.
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Daily Cooking Quest
Indonesian recipe blog with a large collection of home-style Indonesian dishes and easy-to-follow instructions.
Why it is here: Indonesian recipes with easy instructions, covering a cuisine that is hard to find in general recipe sites.
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Japan Centre
Japan Centre is a Japanese food retailer whose recipe section offers dishes and ingredient guidance for Japanese cooking at home.
Why it is here: Recipes tied to a Japanese grocer, so ingredients called for are easy to look up and source.
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