借问素食何处有：（4）柔佛百万镇的菩提林素食料理餐厅

第一次去到百万镇，由于时间匆忙，找不到任何素食馆。第二次去时，终于见到这间菩提林素食料理餐厅，尔后的几次去到百万镇，都还无缘享用它的素食。终于有一天机缘成熟了，决定去尝尝。

哈，那天才说很除了马赛的善缘素食店，很难在别的素食店找到素的沙煲饭，怎知现在却又发现了这一间菩提林也有提供沙煲饭。好吧！就试一试，比一比较。

嗯！还不错，饭粒不会黏在一起，只是咸了点，也许适合口味重的食客。

不久，有公事又再去百万镇。这一次试试别的食物，来碗蘑菇汤和一碟招牌面吧！

蘑菇汤 （稍嫌缺少蘑菇香味）

招牌面（配料还真不少）

除了这两三道食物，您还有其他的选择，如余头米粉、G丝河粉、青咖喱米粉、麻辣香面、干咖喱面、咖喱素羊肉饭、椰浆饭、香G饭、煎豆腐，甚至还有特制沙爹呢！

如果您吃腻了中式素食，菩提林还为您准备了西式素食，如比萨、G扒套餐、薯条、意大利面、G扒意大利面、汉堡包套餐、天然蔬菜沙拉等。

要是您和亲戚朋友一块来，不想吃个人套餐，没问题，可以点菜吃饭。

菩提林的地址如下：

No. 7,9,11, Jalan Permas 10/5, Bandar Baru Permas Jaya, 81750 Masai, Johor D.T.

电话号码是607-386 3636， 手机是010-760 2760.

菩提林每两个星期休息一天，要去之前最好先拨个电话确定一下当天有没有营业。

Where to find vegetarian foods: (3) Senwell in Skudai, Johor

The next vegetarian restaurant I’m going to recommend is an air conditioned vegetarian restaurant which is located in Skudai, Johor, nearby Sutera Mall. The full address is No. 71, Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/2, Taman Sutera Utama, 81300 Skudai and the contact number is 07-554 0871.

I have to thank a friend of mine who is an air conditioning contractor that recommends me this vegetarian restaurant. He knows that I am a faithful Buddhist who eats pure vegetarian foods for whole life. He, therefore, invited me to Skudai for the purpose of visiting Buddhist temples and at the same time spent me vegetarian lunch on one particular Saturday. His mother in law is also a Buddhist cum vegetarian, so he always brings her to various vegetarian restaurants for meals. 

This is the exterior appearance of Senwell Vegetarian Restaurant

Interior appearance of Senwell

The following were the dishes we ordered and enjoyed:

Curry mock lamb (it looks pretty good, right?)

This is vegetarian tom yam soup

Steamed mock fish

How could we only eat mock meat, let’s have a fried vegetable!

What do you feel after seeing these photographs of dishes? Feel hungry? Ha ha ha!

This vegetarian restaurant opened only at noon and evening and it is closed on Tuesdays. Make sure you don’t go on its rest days, otherwise you will be wasting your time.

借问素食何处有：（3）柔佛士古来的天之雨素食餐厅

接下来要介绍的这间素食馆是间冷气素食馆，位于柔佛士古来， 靠近Sutera Mall。完整的地址是： No. 71, Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/2, Taman Sutera Utama, 81300 Skudai. 电话是： 07-554 0871。

我有缘去到这间素食馆，可要多得一位冷气承包商，因为他知道我是吃素的佛教徒，所以就在某一个星期六中午带我去吃素兼参观士古来的佛教道场。这位仁者的岳母也是持素的佛教徒，所以他也时常带岳母到处去素食馆吃素。

这就是天之雨素食餐厅的外观

天之雨内部

这些就是当天我们所享用的菜肴：

咖喱素羊肉（看样子还不错吧！）

东炎汤（素食者不怕没有机会吃到素的东炎汤）

蒸素鱼

素食者怎能只吃素料，来个炒菜胆吧！

看了这些菜肴的照片，垂涎三尺了吧！这间素食馆只在中午和晚上营业，每逢星期二休息，可别弄错时间而白跑一趟哦!

Malay traditional cuisine: Kelantan spicy wild vegetable rice

Plant colours nourish and rehabilitate our bodies and minds
• plants that uptake sun light are rich in colour.
• wild plants or naturally grown plants contain the most colour, followed by organically grown plants and chemical fertilizer planted plants contain the least. If we eat chemical fertilizer planted plants, we are unable to obtain plant colour, our bodies will not get the colour and are more likely to get sick.
• Malaysia has a tropical rain forest, plant colours are particularly rich and various types of wild plants and spices are particularly plenty. These conditions combined with our traditional cuisine cooking wisdom enable us to get healthy body and mind.

Spicy rice
Stir all leaves of spices, extract the juice and cook rice with the juice. In Kelantan tradition, the spices used by the Malays are approximately 20 over types. Over these 20 plus spices, you just have to use a few types of them, the main ones are pandan leaves, kaffir lime (citrus hystrix) leaves, sauropus androgynus (also known as katuk, star gooseberry, or sweet leaf, is a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable. In Chinese it is called mani cai (马尼菜); in Malay it is called cekur manis, sayur manis, or asin-asin), lemon grass, turmeric, turmeric leaves, galangal leaves, etc.

pandan leaves

kaffir lime (citrushystrix) leaves

sauropus androgynus

lemon grass

turmeric

Dishes

Long beans or green beans, slices of cucumber, slices of carrot, green bean sprouts, ginger flower powder, sub-clover powder, asam leaf powder, lemongrass powder.

Sauce
A) Ingredient
1) Dried chili 100g
2) A little bit of coconut sugar (gula Melaka)
3) 1 or 2 lime
4) A bowl of thick coconut milk
5) Fried shredded coconut (small bowl), pounded until powder
6) 2 bowls of water
7) A little bit of salt

B) Method
Pound the dried chili to a paste, add coconut milk (5-6 tablespoons) on top of it, cook with low heat until oil appears, add all the coconut milk, water and fried shredded coconut. Cook with medium heat for 20-30 minutes, add salt and sugar, lastly add the lime into it.

(Source: Lapis Lazuli Light Malaysia)

马来传统料理：吉兰丹香料野菜饭

植物色彩滋养及康复我们的身心

·         植物因摄取阳光，含有丰富的色彩。

·         野生植物或是自然生长的植物色彩最多，有机生长次之，化肥种出来的植物色彩最少。如果我们吃化肥种出来的植物就吃不到色彩，身体就得不到色彩，也较容易生病。

·         马来西亚属于热带雨林，植物色彩特别丰富，而且野生植物和香料种类特别多，加上各民族传统烹饪料理的智慧，可以让我们吃出健康的身心。

香料饭

将所有的香料叶一起搅拌取汁煮饭即可。传统吉兰丹马来同胞所用的香料约20多种，可取几种即可，主要的有香兰叶、麻疯柑叶、马尼菜、香茅、黄姜、黄姜叶、南姜叶等。

香兰叶

麻疯柑叶

马尼菜

香茅

黄姜

配料

长豆或四季豆、黄瓜丝、红萝卜丝、绿豆芽、姜花末、亚三叶末、香茅末。

酱料

A) 材料

1）辣椒干 一百克  

2）椰糖少许       

3）酸柑 一两粒    

4）浓椰浆一碗

5）炒椰丝（小碗），捣至粉状

6）水两碗

7）盐少许

B) 做法

辣椒干捣烂至糊状，加上层椰汁（5-6汤匙），慢火煮至出油，加入全部椰汁、水及炒椰丝。中小火煮20-30分钟，加入盐和糖，最后加酸柑即可。

（取材自马来西亚琉璃光）

Dark chocolate helps to reduce cardiovascular disease and stroke 黑巧克力有助于降低心血管疾病和中风

Perhaps the most painless path to better cardiovascular health is one that comes all-too-naturally to many people: eating chocolate. Earlier research had established a link between cocoa-based confections and lowered blood pressure or improvement in blood flow, which often attributed to antioxidants.

Oscar Franco and colleagues from the University of Cambridge reviewed half-a-dozen studies covering 100,000 patients, with and without heart disease, comparing the group that consumed the most and the least chocolate in each. They found that the highest level of chocolate intake was associated with a 37% reduction in cardiovascular disease, and a 20% drop in strokes, when compared with the chocolate-adverse cohort. But no significant reduction was reported in the incidence of heart attack.

The findings, alas, come with an important caveat: the healthful molecules are found in the bitter cacao, which grow on the cacao tree and are full of natural plant nutrients; not in the sugar and fat with which they are routinely combined. Commercially available chocolate is very calorific and eating too much of it could in itself lead to weight gain, risk of diabetes and heart disease.

Most of the studies to date highlight dark chocolate's health values because it has the highest percentage of cocoa solids, therefore more flavanol antioxidants. In fact, ounce for ounce, dark chocolate and cocoa have more antioxidants than do foods like blueberries, green tea and red wine.

Antioxidants work by protecting your cells from damaging molecules called free radicals. Free radicals are basically unstable oxygen molecules that can trigger changes in the structure of normally healthy cells. This damage is thought to be an underlying cause of many chronic diseases. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals. Free radicals are a natural by-product of life, but as we get older the natural antioxidants our body makes to fight them off begin to decline. The best way to recharge your antioxidant power is to get them through your diet. Now you know why you are always told to eat more fruits and vegetables.

也许吃巧克力是大多数人最自然不过的事，是改善心血管健康最无痛苦的途径。早前的研究已经建立了可可甜点与降低血压或血流量的改善之间的联系，这联系往往归因于抗氧化剂。

奥斯卡佛朗哥和来自英国剑桥大学的同事们审查了六项研究，涉及100,000个病人，分为患有心脏病和没有心脏疾病的组合，在个别的组合比较消耗最多和最少的巧克力的病人。他们发现，当与少摄取巧克力的病人比较，摄取巧克力最高水平的病人减少了心血管疾病37％，患上中风的比率也下降20％。但在这项研究报道中，心脏病发作的发生率并没有显着减少。

唉!这项调查结果带出一个重要的警告：有益健康的分子存在于苦涩的可可中，而可可是生长在可可树上且拥有丰富的天然植物营养素，而不是与他们经常结合的糖和脂肪。市面上销售的巧克力是非常高热能的，吃得太多的话，它本身可导致体重增加以及提高糖尿病和心脏疾病的风险。

大多数最新的研究突出黑巧克力的健康值，因为它拥有比例最高的可可固体，因此拥有更多的黄烷醇抗氧化剂。事实上，以每一盎司来比较，黑巧克力和可可比其他的食物如蓝莓，绿茶和红葡萄酒，拥有更多的抗氧化剂。

抗氧化剂的工作是保护您的细胞免受称为自由基的破坏。自由基基本上是不稳定的氧分子，可以触发正常健康的细胞结构的变化。这种损害被认为是许多慢性疾病的根本原因。抗氧化剂的作用是中和这些破坏性的自由基。

自由基是自然的生活的副产品，但随着年龄的增长，我们的身体所产生的天然抗氧化剂开始下降。补给你抗氧化能力的最好办法是通过你的饮食来摄取。现在你知道为什么人们总是劝你多吃水果和蔬菜了吧！

13 helpful uses of salt for health and beauty 盐的十三种有益健康与美容的用途

1. Gargling - Stir 1/2 teaspoon salt in an 8-ounce (236ml) glass of warm water for use as a gargle for sore throats.

2. Cleaning teeth - Mix one part salt to two parts baking soda after pulverizing the salt in a blender or rolling it on a kitchen board with a tumbler before mixing. Use this mixture to rub your teeth. It whitens teeth, helps remove plaque and it is healthy for the gums.

3. Washing mouth - Mix equal parts of salt and baking soda as a mouth wash that sweetens the breath.

4. Bathing eyes - Mix 1/2 teaspoon of salt in a pint (473ml) of water and use the solution to bathe tired eyes.

5. Reducing eye puffiness - Mix one teaspoon of salt in a pint (473ml) of hot water and apply pads soaked in the solution on the puffy areas.

6. Relieving tired feet - Soak aching feet in warm water to which a handful of salt has been added. Rinse in cool water.

7. Relieving bee stings - If stung, immediately wet the spot and cover with salt to relieve the pain.

8. Treating poison ivy - Soaking the exposed part in hot salt water helps hasten the end to poison ivy irritation.

9. Relieving fatigue - Soak relaxed for at least ten minutes in a tub of water into which several handfuls of salt has been placed.

10. Removing dry skin - After bathing and while still wet give yourself a massage with dry salt. It removes dead skin particles and aids the circulation.

11. Applying facial - For a stimulating facial, mix equal parts of salt and olive oil and gently massage the face and throat with long upward and inward strokes. Remove mixture after five minutes and wash face.

12. Cooling body heat – mix some water and a little bit of salt on durian shell and drink the salt water after eating a lot of durians to help cool down your body heat.

13. Cooling body heat – add a little bit of salt into refreshing drinks to get better effect.

1.漱口 - 在一杯8盎司 (236毫升) 的温水搅拌1 /2茶匙盐,用这杯盐水来为喉咙痛漱口。

2.清洁牙齿 - 混合一分盐和两分小苏打, 混合前先用搅拌机把盐搅碎或用棍子在砧板把盐压碎。这混合物可以美白牙齿，有助于清除牙垢和使牙龈健康。

3.清洁口腔 - 混合等份的盐和小苏打作为漱口水，这可使气息香甜。

4.清洗眼睛 - 混合1 / 2茶匙盐于一品脱(473毫升)的水,用这盐水来清洗疲劳的眼睛。

5.减少眼部浮肿 - 一品脱(473毫升)的热水混合一茶匙的盐,用棉花浸泡在盐水后敷在浮肿的眼部。

6.纾解疲惫的双腿 - 在已被添加了一把盐的温水中浸泡疼痛的脚。过后在冷水中冲洗。

7.舒解蜂蜇 - 如果被蜜蜂蜇伤，立即沾湿伤口, 然后敷上盐巴以缓解疼痛。

8.治疗毒藤痛痒 - 在热盐水中浸泡染到毒藤的身体部分，有助于加快结束毒藤造成的痛痒。

9.缓解疲劳 - 在已被加入几把盐巴的浴缸水里放松的浸泡至少10分钟。    

10.去除死皮 - 沐浴后, 在还没抹干身体前, 用干盐按摩身体。这可去除死皮和促进血液循环。

11.美容作用 – 作为美容用途，混合等份的盐和橄榄油，轻轻按摩面部和喉咙, 向上和向内的搓揉。五分钟后清除混合物，然后洗脸。

12.消除热气 - 大量的吃榴梿后, 可用榴梿壳盛水, 加入少许的盐巴来喝, 这可帮助消除身体的热气。

13.消除热气 - 在清凉的饮料中添加少许的盐巴可提高消暑的作用。

(source: Saltworks)