Well the obvious answer to this question might be Pakistan. But if you don’t live there and can’t make a visit what are the options?

All Things Pakistan, with the help of its readers, has compiled a list of Best Pakistani Food outside Pakistan.

Most of the restaurants listed so far are from North America or the United Kingdom but there is a good selection of suggestions from other parts of the world as well.

Photo: sweets from All Things Pakistan

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In Iceland soup can be a dessert as well as a first dish. Icelandic magazine DV.is explains this and more in its English language special edition on Icelandic food. It contains recipes and anecdotes about food in Icelandic culture.

Check out what did they eat? to read about the diet of Iceland’s early settlers (a lot of porridge, apparently), and Sweet Soups of Youth for more about the famous Icelandic sweet soups.

Photo: DV.is

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There is more to Hungarian cooking than the famous goulash.

Expand your knowledge with Food and Beverages in Hungary, a cooking blog written by Nóra from Gyál near Budapest.

Photo: Cottage cheese basket with strawberry by Nóra

There are a lot of cakes here… I don’t know whether this is because cake is very important to Hungarians or because she is mother of two small children who like to eat cake (maybe you can tell us Nóra!)

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The culture and food of Penang in Malaysia has been heavily influenced by immigrants. Inputs from mainland China, and more recently India and Sri Lanka have blended with local Malay flavours to make up this unique and world famous cuisine.

For immigrants life here opening a street food stand is an accessible, low-investment way to make a living. However life is tough - many work from 6am to 10am to earn enough to keep themselves and save some money for their families.

The first episode in the street food series from Al Jazeera explains the story of Penang street food (to watch online follow the link from the article).

Photo: Cathryn on pbase

Future programmes will look at tapas traditions in the Basque country of Spain, London’s famous Brick Lane, New York, Nairobi, Beijing, Cairo and Jerusalem. If the first programme is anything to go by the rest will definitely be worth watching.

I was hungry when I started writing this post, and after a few minutes gazing at Nami Nami I had to give in and eat before I could continue!

Photo: coconut creams with rhubarb from Nami Nami

Nami Nami brings a Baltic perspective to the kitchen, with delicious recipes using Estonian ingredients like berries, wild mushrooms and most recently asparagus, which has just come into season. Of course there are many international recipes as well as Estonian specialities.

Recipes are accompanied by mouth-watering photos so you can see what you are about to cook, and sometimes stories of Estonian life.

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Photo: Orange and strawberry juice at Riad Laaroussa

The gorgeous header photo gets A Moroccan Kitchen off to an excellent start.

Samira and Sabah work at Riad Laaroussa, in Fes Medina, and here they share their recipes for Moroccan food and stories of life in Fes Medina. Some entries are in French.

Update: Marrakech Xanthe writes about an essential Moroccan ingredient - Argan oil, which is only produced in Morocco and Algeria.

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A New Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Roden is a very comprehensive book of recipes. From how to make the best hummous, to six different methods of stuffing vegetables, even how to barbeque a fish.

The author grew up in Egypt, and the book includes food from Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Israel. The book also includes many stories and anecdotes from the region.

If you enjoy Middle Eastern food you might also like to read our post on Turkish cooking.

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‘Pleasure and sustenance’ is the promise of Mandira and Aswin, authors of Ahaar, and it is jam packed with mouth-watering recipes for all kinds of Indian food. Appetising photographs of the food give you even more incentive to try out the dishes.

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Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries on earth, and suffers from severe flooding almost every year. This can be disastrous for the rice crops, which cannot survive if they stay flooded for more than 3 days. Since around two thirds of the population make their living from rice crops, a bad flood can cause many problems.

Now the International Rice Research Institute, based in Manila, has developed a strain of rice which can endure flooding for at least 10 days. This article from Al Jazeera describes how the new strain of rice can help farmers in Bangladesh.

A very original blog idea by Buenos Aires based food and travel journalist Layne Mosler - every week she gets into a taxi and asks the driver to take her to his favourite place to eat. She writes about what she finds (and eats) there in Go Where the Taxista Takes You.

As to be expected in Argentina, she eats a lot of grilled meat. She also picks up some nice stories from the taxistas along the way…