I think the Korean Kimchi Ramen is Korea’s biggest, most popular food export. It’s not the healthiest thing around, but it’s darn tasty. Add a half boiled egg topped with a handful of raw enoki mushrooms and 2 large spoonful of raw kimchi, and you’ll have a pretty nutritious dish full of protein (egg), enzymes and vitamins from the veges.There’s really good probiotics from the kimchi as well that’s as good as what you’ll get from a small pot of yogurt and probably even better than the probiotics pill you’ll find at the pharmacy.

Now, there are lots of other things you can add to make this dish healthier. Maybe some raw green onions, raw seaweed strips, shredded carrots and cucumber. You can be creative.

By the way, most mushrooms sold at the store can be eaten raw. enoki, button, brown mushrooms, Chinese (Shiitake) mushrooms, straw, portobello, bunashimeiji and oyster mushrooms. There’s probably lots other mushrooms not listed. You can check them out online.

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More info on how to heal your body

• Should we drink chlorinated tap water?
• Lots of great raw or almost raw food here!
• “This plant healed my sister!” said hubby
• Gotu Kola heals the world!
• Iodine Tincture Heals Cancer Lesions?

Miang Kam

I love Miang Kam, which is a Thai partly raw snack slash appetizer. The picture here shows the appetizer without the sticky dark syrup.

Miang kam consists of fresh cha plu (ช้าพลู) leaves that are filled with some roasted coconut shavings and few small pieces of the following ingredients:

• onion
• Fresh small Thai red chilli
• Ginger
• Garlic
• Unpeeled lime
• roasted peanuts
• Dry small shrimp

After filling the leaf, a little coconut palm syrup containing Thai fish sauce (nam pla) is poured on top. Then the leaf is folded and eaten whole. The origin of the name is in “eating many things in one bite”; from “miang” (เมี่ยง), meaning “food wrapped in leaves”, and “kham” (คำ), “a bite”.

The cha plu leaves or the Daun Kadok leaves (as we call it in Malaysia)

Apparently, this leaf is good for relieving toothaches, heal malaria fever, getting rid of worm infection, strengthen weak bodies and eliminating coughs.

If this single leaf can do so much, imagine what the Miang Kam can do. It’s power packed with nuts (protein), ginger (good for getting rid of mucus and it’s a cancer fighting leaf) chili (to warm the body up and get rid of intestinal parasites), coconut (good oil and roughage), onion (treatment of poor appetite, strengthen bones  and to prevent atherosclerosis), lime (weight loss, skin care, good digestion, relief from constipation, eye care, and treatment of scurvy, piles, peptic ulcer) and dried shrimp (protein, excellent source of selenium, a very good source of vitamin D and vitamin B12.)

Here’s the recipe but it’s really time consuming to make these lil things cause you can only eat a few at a time so it’s best to buy it from a Thai restaurant or a Thai stall.

Directions

1. Dry roast the coconut in a wok on medium high, stirring constantly to avoid burning. Cook until the coconut is medium brown, about 5 minutes. Set aside the amount used for the sauce, and put the rest into a serving bowl.
2. Cut up all the ingredients which are not to be put into the sauce into small 1/4″ pieces. Arrange in small bowls, or in piles on a plate.
3. Now, for the sauce… In a stone mortar & pestle, pound together the shallots and galangal until fine. Set aside.
4. In a small sauce pan, add the water, fish sauce, palm sugar & shallot/galangal mixture.
5. Boil over medium heat to reduce the sauce to the thickness shown in the picture below. You’re going to boil off about 1/2 the liquid. Make sure to keep stirring every now and then.
6. Add the roasted coconut, remove from heat, and put into a small bowl.
7. To eat… Take a leaf and fold the bottom to make a pouch (see large pic above). Put a large pinch of roasted coconut in first, then follow with a piece or two of everything else from the serving bowls: shallots, lime, ginger, peanuts, shrimp and a chili if desired. There is no ‘proper’ order to put them in. Then, add a bit of sauce on top, roll the leaf to make a packet, and eat in one bite. Eating Mieng Kam is like a taste explosion.

Honestly, it’s a lot of work right? Anyways, there’s a lady who sells it really cheap the the SS2 night market every Monday if you are interested in trying it. Her stall is right across the Salvation bookstore, near McDonalds. They sell other types of Thai snacks too like the mango salad, sticky rice with mango and the fruit salad (rojak).

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More info on how to heal your body

• Should we drink chlorinated tap water?
• Lots of great raw or almost raw food here!
• “This plant healed my sister!” said hubby
• Gotu Kola heals the world!
• Iodine Tincture Heals Cancer Lesions?

An Indian study published in the Journal of Human Hypertension confirmed that the guava fruit help reduce high blood pressure and high blood fat reading.

Half the participants (73 people) ate 1 pound – 2 pounds of guava daily for 4 weeks. The other group had a different diet. Blood pressure decreased an average of 5%. Fat reading decreased an average of 5-8%.

~ Guava As Medicine by Ingfried Hobert MD & Harald W. Tietze ~

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More info on how to heal your body

• Should we drink chlorinated tap water?
• Lots of great raw or almost raw food here!
• “This plant healed my sister!” said hubby
• Gotu Kola heals the world!
• Iodine Tincture Heals Cancer Lesions?

All images taken from The Berry

Solution of vinegar and soap

I was just reading a funny post about how this lady hated fruit flies, and guess what … I DO TOO!

Hate them.

I don’t like them hovering my bananas, and I certainly don’t like them to hover over my garbage bin and then fly over to hover over my fruits!

Apparently, there are scores of people who have tested ways to kill these buggers (don’t you just love this British term?) and here are the environmentally freindly ways to do so.

1. Alcohol kills 

One guy found out that a few inches of wine in a standard wine bottle works extremely well - as he found out the next morning, after he took a glug of wine with some dead flies floating in it!! The little bugs love wine and they will dive into the bottle only to drown after having a few hick sips. Apparently, the reason why they can’t fly out of the narrow opening of the wine bottle  is because these lovable  fruit flies can only fly side to side, not up and down. 

Here’s what he says “I don’t like killing anything, but I salve my conscience by shaking the bottle regularly, to drown them so they don’t swim for hours, struggling…”

Note to self, look INSIDE the alcohol bottle to make sure there’s no drowned animals before having a go at the hoo-hoo-hoo. However, if you already ate these bugs … accidentally … consider this. They are a good source of uncooked protein. 

2. Wash / hand slap trick

This same wino guy tried another tactic which he said worked well for him. He washed the  fruits right away and then hand slap the flies as soon as they appear, right before they settle in and procreate. 

3. A deadly cocktail of apple cider vinegar and soap

If you are too lazy to wash the fruit or kill hand slap the silly buggers, then you might want to try this instead. Leaving a mixture of foamy, soapy apple cider vinegar solution on the table next to the fruits. It seems the pesky flies are attracted to the vinegar. But the foam traps them and they die. Something you can easily try at home.

Speaking of insects, I found that they drown easily in soapy water. If you are a sadist, you can try picking up ants, cockroaches, bees, whatever takes your fancy and slowly release them into the soapy water … to test my theory. There’s one insect I truly dislike with passion, and that is mosquitoes. Just one mosquito can cause so much damage to a baby. One day, I found multiple Mozzie bites on my precious baby’s skin. Horrified I tell you. So this fuming mommy sat there, waiting patiently with soapy wet hands. I took a slow easy swipe at the nasty mozzie just as it was about to make another meal out of my kid and it promptly got caught in the foam. Then, I walked to the bathroom and triumphantly release the struggling mozzie into the soapy water and watched it slowly sink down into the abyss.

Bliss! No more bites that night. 

So, if you don’t like nasty insects like me, you know what to do.

Peace!

Image and info taken from Re-Nest.com