The Malaysian Insider :: Food
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| Yummy Yee Sang, Posh Burger and more Posted: 17 Jan 2014 04:45 PM PST To bring it all together was the mandarin orange sauce stirred with a little olive oil and sprinkled with black sesame. It had balanced, fresh flavours. Altogether it was an amazing combination with the tangy, zingy sauce that had a light sweetness, unlike other Yee Sang sauces. I liked the generous portion of sweet fish circled with dark green kale at the side, so different from the few slivers of raw salmon we usually get. If it's good health you wish for, this is the Yee Sang you should have. The rolls were a textural delight and delicious with the perky, lightly sweet dip. The fish sat on a twirl of cucumber "linguine", drizzled with a nut butter sauce. These were just the appetisers; we were raring for more of what Ashley Yinn, the young and creative chef of Living Food Café had to offer. We settled on the Golden Million Steak, which is chilled organic grass-fed steak with tangerine soy sauce and a lotus root salad. The three of us shared the Living Vege Loaf, which had layers of marinated spinach, mushroom, avocado and walnut paste. It was a mellow, creamy and tasty combination, with the pieces of mushrooms popping up at every bite. It was served with flax crackers and rosemary bread. The Posh Lamb Burger was yums. It was pure, juicy lamb, all 150g of it, in the patty, with a slice of brie melted over it, and sandwiched in a specially made red yeast bun. Dessert was a Black Forest Brownie that takes four days to make, according to Ashley, as it's a raw flourless chocolate cake baked with almond meal, vanilla chocolate butter, eggs and walnut. It tasted like pure chocolate inside, with a nut cream, raspberry and cherry sauce poured over it. It was superb. A big slice of this is as good as a meal, a really scrumptious one. Living Food is about raw food that's cooked at a low temperature of about 42 degrees Celsius so that its natural enzymes and nutritional value are not destroyed. Salads and raw fish are also living food. The prices: The Yee Sang is RM68, Golden Million Steak RM45, Chermoula Pearl Snapper RM45, Raw Vegan Rolls RM32, Living Vege Layer Loaf RM32. The desserts are RM10 each. Living Food Bistro/Cafe is located at G-04, Ground floor, Menara Tan & Tan, 207 Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur. Tel: 03-2181 2778. Two new cafes will be opening in Bangsar and KLCC in March. – January 18, 2014. |
| The country deemed to have the healthiest eating habits may surprise you Posted: 17 Jan 2014 03:58 AM PST Though the country is better known for its liberal drug laws than its cuisine, the Dutch diet ranked the healthiest out of 125 countries in a wide sweeping report out of Oxfam that looked at factors like food availability, affordability, food quality and obesity rates. According to the index "Good Enough to Eat", the Netherlands emerged the leader thanks to relatively low food prices, low prevalence of diabetes, and better nutritional diversity than its European rivals. Overall, the list is dominated by European countries, with France and Switzerland tying for second place, followed by Austria, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden tying for third. Notable absentees include the UK, Canada and the US. Asian giants South Korea and Japan, meanwhile, performed the best when it comes to healthy eating habits and food availability, given their lower rates of diabetes and obesity and equally low rates of malnutrition in children. At the other end of the spectrum, Chad landed dead last on the list, due to high food prices, poor nutritional value as well as limited sanitary conditions that includes access to clean water. Second from the bottom are Angola and Ethiopia. Interestingly, when it comes to unhealthy eating habits, Saudi Arabia was the lowest scoring country, ranking the worst for its high prevalence of diabetes – a whopping 18% of the population is diabetic. A third of the population is also considered obese. The fattest country on the list is Kuwait, where 42% of the population is obese. To compile their ranking, researchers looked at figures from eight studies published out of international groups like the World Health Organisation, the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the International Labour Organisation. Meanwhile, a 2006 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concluded that a healthy traditional Dutch diet – defined as a high intake of vegetables, fruit, dairy products and potatoes – was more feasible and healthier for the longevity of older Dutch women, compared to a Mediterranean diet. Here are the top countries for healthy eating, according Oxfam's "Good Enough to Eat" index: 1. Netherlands |
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