List of Resources and Inspirations
Indonesian Recipes
- Detikfood - One of my favorites Indo cooking website. Click ‘kumpulan resep’, it will give you plenty of recipe ideas.
- Merry’s Kitchen of Indonesian Cuisine.
- Sedap-Sekejap Magazine - This website has a lot of the ‘authentic’ Indonesian cuisine. Unfortunately, the page is taking forever to load, so your patience is required.
Japanese recipes sites
- Open Kitchen - This is what’s gotten me fall in love with obento. The very first site I found, has links to all her friends’ obento blogs. It is available in English, but not as many recipes.
- Bob and Angie - They have an English site, but not as many recipes.
- E-Recipe - You’ll find plenty plenty of Japanese recipes. Artistic presentation, creative ideas.
- Hiromi’s Japanese Cooking Recipes
- Japanese Mom’s Table
Obento
My love of Japanese obento (lunch box). Now, there are more and more available in English. I am amazed of their creativity and artistic touch.
- Cubic
- E-Obento. The most beautiful bento ever. Check it out!
- Haduki’s Lunch box
- Hobby Cabinet
- Kuu’s Lunch Box
- Leggo of my obento!
- Marubox
- Ogachan
- Ristorante Homura
- TaChan Mama Obento
- Yuki
To help you read those in Japanese, use one of these translators:
- http://www.ocn.ne.jp/translation A bit tricky to use if you don’t know some chinese characters. But I like this one better.
- http://babel.altavista.com/
Korean recipe sites
Malaysian/Singaporean recipe sites
- Resepi Mesra
- Kuali – I used to watch this show back in Indo
Western Cuisine
- Food Network - My favorites are Ina Garten (Barefoot Contessa) and Paula Deen (Paula’s Home Cooking).
- Food Network Canada
- Kraft
- Cooking Light
