{"id":166,"date":"2014-12-29T02:47:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T02:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=166"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:01","slug":"an-asian-culinary-adventure-inspired-by-npr-kin-and-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"An Asian Culinary Adventure Inspired by NPR: Kin and Comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was pulled outside of my comfort zone for this one, but I am glad I let go of my boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>I had the pork belly buns and the panang mac and cheese &#8211; both\u00a0were divine, but the pork belly took the prize. Not fatty at all \u2013 which is often the case. \u00a0I was blown away with the quality\u00a0of the food. \u00a0Mind you, finding the place was a bit of an adventure. Siri had the address down, but actual the restaurant was INSIDE the Asian Market, not near the Pancake House as Google Maps indicated.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kin and Comfort\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kinandcomfort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kin and Comfort<\/a><br \/>\n1700 W Parmer Lane (just east of Metric)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pulled outside of my comfort zone for this one, but I am glad I let go of my boundaries. I had the pork belly buns and the panang mac and cheese &#8211; both\u00a0were divine, but the pork belly took the prize. Not fatty at all \u2013 which is often the case. \u00a0I was blown away with the quality\u00a0of the food. \u00a0Mind you, finding the place was a bit of an adventure. Siri had the address down, but actual the restaurant was INSIDE the Asian Market, not near the Pancake House as Google Maps indicated. Kin and Comfort 1700 W Parmer Lane (just east of Metric) &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,52,51,53],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dining","tag-asian","tag-cheap-food","tag-dining-in-austin","tag-pork-belly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3121,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/3121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}