East Asia Blog Round-Up : 4/3/2012

Here is this week’s Eye on East Asia Blog Round-up.

• Ajumma’s Journal - The author creates an itinerary for night owls celebrating the Great Full Moon, or Daeboreum (대보름), festival.
• An American in North Korea - Joseph gives some advice on what to pack for a trip to North Korea.
• Annyeong from Anyang - Lana writes about her recent trip to Cambodia.
• Appetite for China - Diana shares a delicious recipe for spicy Hunan beef with cumin.
• Carl Gene - Carl compiles a list of Chinese nouns ending with de (的).
• Chinaful - Courtney talks about her adventures in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia.
• Dale’s Korean Temple Adventures - Dale visits Hwaeomsa Temple (화엄사) in Yangsan.
• East Asian Student - Hugh explains the difference between passive and active vocabulary.
• Good & Bad Japan - The author explains why Japanese really isn’t as difficult as the Japanese insist it is.
• Hacking Chinese - Olle talks about the “10,000-hour rule” in language learning.
• I’ll Make it Myself - The author talks about Japanese street food and the 2012 Foodpia Land food fair.
• Josephine McDermott -  Josephine bemoans the lack of good value massage parlours in London.
• Life of a Foreign Hachikin - Indi lists her top five Japanese movies.
• Life on Nanchang Lu - Fiona learns about allotment farming in China.
• Lingomi - Steven calls on readers to rate his spoken Mandarin.
• Mark’s  China Blog - Mark reviews the late Nien Cheng’s memoir Life and Death in Shanghai.
• Mountain Phoenix Over Tibet - The author talks about Tibet’s mythical King Gesar of Ling.
• Mutantfrog Travelogue - Adam explains why he feels his Japanese sucks and always will.
• My Mid-Twenties in Mongolia - Liz shows you how to celebrate the New Year Mongolian style.
• Out to Lunch - Carolyn shares her recipe for Shanghainese salt-and-pepper chicken (椒鹽雞).
• Seeing Red in China - Tom reviews Liao Yiwu’s book about Christianity in Communist China, God is Red.
• Shenzhen Noted - Mary Ann shares her thoughts on the sorry state of Shenzhen’s print media.
• Shizuoka Gourmet - The author posts a simple recipe for Okinawan chilli oil (食べるラー油).
• Space for Grace - Grace wonders what the future holds for her and her career and family.
• Taiwan Duck - JJ Lym shows readers how to make Taiwanese oyster omelettes (蚵仔煎) at home.
• The Wild East - Trista reviews Nick Kembel’s bilingual book Taiwan From the Eyes of a Foreigner.
• To Shuo - Mark talks about an interesting character in his life, the Chinese Character Enthusiast.
• Tofugu - Hashi responds to Adam’s post and considers what it means to be fluent in Japanese.
• TsukuBlog - Avi talks about the legacy of ancient Japan’s frontier guards, the sakimori (防人).
• Writer. Traveller. Tea Drinker - Becky talks about a slight mishap at McDonalds.
• You’re Not From Around Here, Are You? - Steve writes about his visit to the Dai homeland of Xishuangbanna (西双版纳) in Yunnan Province.

That’s all for this week. The next blog round-up will be posted on Sunday 11th March 2012.

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