This morning, we bring you something new, a micro-hub of the cool and quirky, the proud and tasty. Two links. Two food sites. One heck of Friday tonic.

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The Lee Brothers’ “Boiled Peanuts Catalogue” serves Southern delicacies online.

Photo courtesy of Boiled Peanuts Catalogue

Boiled Peanuts Catalogue
Dividing their time between Charleston, S.C. and New York, brothers Matt and Ted Lee have made it their mission to bring the joys of Southern lowland cuisine to the rest of the world. They founded “Boiled Peanuts Catalogue,” an online seller of such Southern pantry treats as moon pies, Sun Drop sodas, sweet preserves, hominy, cane syrup, pickles and, yes, boiled peanuts, made to be eaten “outdoors, on the porch and in the car, at fairs and barbeques.”

These gents have also written articles and award-winning cookbooks that likewise promote Southern foodstuffs.

Cha Xiu Bao
At its core, Josh Tse’s food blog “Cha Xiu Bao” is Hong Kong cuisine. In describing his work, Tse cites Yuan Mei’s “Recipes of the Sui Garden:” “If our host's object was simply to impress, it would have been better to put a hundred pearls into each bowl. Then we should have known that the meal had cost him tens of thousands, without the unpleasantness of being expected to eat the uneatable."

Tse’s not online to woo readers with fine foods and stones — his most recent post directed readers to the “Naked Chef,” a new show on Hong Kong’s adult channel. No, this avid eater and observer’s bread and butter is instead chicken, pork, fish and duck — the staples and heroes of all things delicious served up in neighborhoods like Kowloon, Tai O and Soho.

Jessica Levine profiles the culture and history of Washtenaw County restaurants for AnnArbor.com. Contact her at levineeats@gmail.com.