Aloe Vela Gel

You might notice Aloe Vela is material or ingrediant for a lot of skin health care product, or skin related product, most simple reason is because Aloe Vela have the content which is most similiar to skin of human.

Benefit
1. Helps heal minor burns, cuts & rashes ( and old rashes)
2. Helps alleviate the pain of sunburn while speeding healing
3. Works as a skin moisturizer has anti-inflammatory properties
and much more...

In stead of using those product which content Aloe Vela, why don't we apply Aloe Vela directly. hence, i would to share how i actually DIY to produce my own Aloe Vela gel...

Plant
Aloe Vela is easy to grow and care for, select the mature leaf (more than one year) of aloe vela which laid near to ground compared with other. These are largest and should be healthy...

Yellow sap is not usefull, leave the leaf upside down and drain the sap out for fews minutes...

Most people use aloe simply by cutting off a piece of leaf and squeezing the liquid onto their skin. This works, but it wastes the inner gel, which is the most potent part of the plant. To use the gel, you'll need to "fillet" the leaves rather than merely squeezing them. The filleting process also reaps much more aloe gel/juice. When properly prepared and refrigerated.

Use a spoon to gently scoop out the gel, or solid fillet...

These aloe juice that isn't commercially processed, so it tends to have an unpleasant odor. This is normal and won't affect its properties. Come to worst... just replace a new cup of new aloe vela gel, i don't know what is the expired date of these gel, but don't keep it too long in the refrigerator...

As storage, use a glass or food-safe plastic container. Best is something that can block out excess light. I use a ceramic cup with cover for these...

Bamboo Tree and Bak Chang

My mother grow a bamboo tree in garden, but she never call that as bamboo tree, she call that as "chang heok", 粽叶, which used to wrap bak chang, 粽子.... I'm not sure whether this "chang heok" is the same food that panda love a lot....

That bamboo located beside my banana and longan tree, it is 3 years old now, given by my uncle in Kangar...
It consider as easy growth plant, it growth a bit slow at my garden as the soil is bit hard for tree... But now... seem like she find a breakthrough way... from soil, banana, longan and daun inai...

My mother and i spend some time for prunning, to reduce "density" of leaf in garden, but main purpose to get the "chang heok", 粽叶 for chinese dumplings season...

If you plan to keep, you may keep it this way, to avoid the leaf become curly, which will make the wrapping process more difficult...

Before use, you need to clean... plain water will be fine to get a leaf free from dust and fur...

My mother start the wrapping process, today she didn't do bak chang, but red bean. Which is more suitable to wrap with green leaf...

Here with layout of production area, my mother design these ergonomic layout since i'm a kid...

End of wrapping process, now the waiting for boiling process...

Close up view...

Different between green and dry leaf, this the gear mom use to boil...

Finish good.... Mother will do outgoing touch up before shipment... hehe...

Bamboo shoot 竹笋 is another product of bamboo tree... It is a new bamboo culms that come out of the ground... Bamboo shoot is material for mother on some delicious oriental dishes...

This is a bigger one, it can be eat before it turn to woody... one way to verify whether that shoot turn to woody is use your leg to kick it... it will break at the right location where woody starting...

After removing sterm and cleaning process, mom just leave it in water for few days.... hehe...

Bamboo is also usefull to build up any thing.... during my secondary school, harvesting bamboo is an important activities before our camping, we use that to build our headquater, camp and fencing... And now, mom use that to pick mango fruit from tree, and building rack to support her vine or climbing plant like Long Bean and Morning Gory.

As summary... Bamboo tree is very usefull and fully utilized by people, especially for my mom during this dumpling season... Happy Dumpling Day for all!!! hehe....

Meal of the day 一天三餐

I think we might not perfect to practice all these, but try your best, sedikit sedikit, lama lama menjadi bukit....

《越晚吃飯致死率越高!!》

晚上8：00才吃晚餐就算宵夜了！你是不是也常忙到 8：00才吃飯呢？小心喔！ 根據統計, 70%的人具有酸性體質。酸性體質有一個很大的特徵，吃愈好得慢性疾病的機率就會很高。 因為體質變酸，酵素作用會受到阻礙，內分泌失調，荷爾蒙也會受阻礙。 酸性體質的朋友，一味地吃大魚大肉所謂有營養的食物，事實上是雪上加霜，只會讓身體越來越糟。 要找出問題的根源是去改變你的體質，才是根本解決之道。(人體應呈現弱鹼才好)

《熬夜會使體質變酸》
晚上1：00以後不睡覺，人體的代謝作用由內分泌燃燒，用內分泌燃燒產生的毒素會很多，會使體質變酸，通常熬夜的人得慢性疾病的機率比抽煙或喝酒的人都來得高。所以每天儘量在12：00以前睡覺，不要常熬夜，若非要熬夜，一星期以一次為限！熬夜時不要吃肉，盡量吃碳水化合物，這樣隔天才不至於很累，可把傷害減至最低。

《吃宵夜的人，體質容易變酸》
時常交際應酬的生意人，通常壽命較短，易患糖尿病、高血壓。凡是晚上8：00再進食就稱做宵夜。吃宵夜隔天會疲倦，爬不起床，肝也會受損，因為睡覺時，人體各器官活動力低，處於休息狀態，因此食物留在腸子裡會變酸、發酵、產生毒素傷害身體。

《早起的人身體好》
人體在凌晨4：30，體溫達到最低點，血液循環最慢，因此古時候練功的人在4：30以前就起床。 如果睡太晚，血液循環變慢，氧氣也跟著減少，變成缺氧性燃燒，會使體質變酸。

《不吃早餐的人，體質會變酸》
一天三餐中，早餐佔了70分，午餐0分，晚餐30分。可見早餐最重要，但台灣人普遍不吃早餐，更糟的是養成吃宵夜的習慣，這是非常不正確的飲食習慣。所以從現在起要更重視早餐，學習如何吃早餐。早餐一定要豐富而且要選擇耐燃燒4-5小時的食物，才足夠你一天的消耗量。

《精緻食物加速胃腸老化》
少運動且整天坐在辦公室的上班族最容易犯這種錯誤，因為吃的少，刻意選擇很精緻的食物而少吃粗糙的食物，這種人的腸子老化的特別快，肝功能差，大便是黑色的而且會常便秘。因為精緻食物缺乏纖維素，會導致腸子功能變差，甚至萎縮，你所吃的食物變成了毒素，使你體質變酸，慢性病也開始。養生之道就在日常生活裡，吃出健康，也能吃出自信。

Source: Forwarded Mail

Korean BBQ 韩国烤肉

Last week, we had a gathering plus birthday celebration with Soh Peng, and we went to the 1st day of Korean BBQ DOARAE at I-Avenue, Penang... 2 suprises upon enter the restaurant, 1st is all the staff we saw was korean, boss and chef was so friendly to welcome us... 2nd was no charge on kerean wine during that night, price of 1st 2 bottle from left is RM 40, 3rd bottle is RM20... and we manage to dry it all end of the day....

I appreciate the healthy way that Korean practice, they had various type of appetizers, non of those was fried, they like to manage food with stim, merinating, bake or toast... rarely fried... Name of appetizer that i can remember served that night was kimci, vegetable salad and sea weed... hehe... Nutrition of those food is good for health... I'm not sure that is promotion during 1st day or not, but those appetizer will be refilled when you finish, so if you doesn't want to waste food after they refilled, remember to stop them from refill.... As well in the bill, we don't see price of those nice appetizer, maybe they charge it somewhere in our items... or is really special promotion of 1st day...

As for BBQ portion, server is concerning about cleaniness of pan or special heating plate that used for our BBQ ing, they replace those plate frequently which we never do during our own DIY BBQ session... hehe... meat is good with rich calorie for energy... BUT...

BUT.... If you are not the type of people who always consume a lot energy, those rich calorie will become high cholestrol for you...

When some one invent BBQ for some reason, they are innovative as well to balance up the concern on high cholestrol of these tasty BBQ meat... thus they serve lettuce and garlic as well... Lettuce (生菜) is fat free and low calorie food for well balance diet. Garlic (蒜) is so famous with multiple kind of good nutrition, in this case, it plays a role in managing the high cholestrol level... That is the reason why garlic also served together with bak kut teh... Strong taste of garlic can be minimized by baking it... As well, korean BBQ also serve different type of sauce, but i'm not really study benefit of those sauce yet...

Below as layout sample of how you can serve BBQ in healthy way, after that just wrap up and dump all into your mouth... wow!!! Juicy of meat, Passion of heat, Crispy of lettuce, Exciting of garlis.... wow.!!!!!!!!!

Another good thing about this activities is you won't finish all the BBQ so fast, lettuce will also occupied some space on your stomoch... so the benifit is you get more time, more topic for chatting with your peer, and don't have to take a lot calories to feel full... those calories is not cheap...