Tom Yum Goong

Tom Yum Goong Wonderful Thai Dishes

This year, Thailand has become the most popular “Street Food” in the world. From this news, without any doubt why Thailand, it is because of the diversity of ingredients. For more reason Thailand is also abundant with Thai herbs, which make Thai dishes healthy and definitely tasty?

Thailand is such a wonderful country not only people but also foods. The diversity of ingredients and a broad range of Thai herbs are made Thai dishes so unique style. The question is which dish is the top spot of Thailand’s dish. It isn’t easy to answer, but we have to pick one of them. I have spent my time in Thailand to search for the right answer, not for me but also most of Thai people give the credit to “Tom Yum”, especially with prawns, in Thai it is called “Goong”.

It is such a normal dish but it has more detail of cooking and ingredients. It has become well-known and hard to say why. If you are looking for to try one, come to Thailand and search for yourself. For me the difficult one is “how to cook it tasty that is a hard task. No other dishes can defeat Tom Yum Goong;so that, it is representative of Thai gourmet.

Tom Yum Goong is the one of the most popular Thai dishes, which consists of spiciness, sourness and also lots of Thai 

herbs including galangal, lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, shallot, tamarind and chili pepper. Most people don’t know exactly how many kinds of Tom Yum. There are only two kinds of its; clear and thick spicy soups. Thick Tom Yum Goongis cooked by adding coconut milk or milk in order to thicken the stock and give the dish milder favor.

Tom Yam is a versatile and its can be made with prawns, chicken, fish, mix of seafood as well as mushroom. These reason make Tom Yum is definitely a signature of Thailand’s dish.

At last no matter what food you eat from Mcdonald’s burger, KFC to Japanese sushi, a key to stay healthy to avoid overconsumption.

Articled by Jimmy England

My favorite Thai Dishes

My favorite Thai Dishes

Thai foods are wonderful diversity of ingredients. Basically, it has complexes with spiciness and unique flavor as well as aromas. So many Thai cuisines are prepared by adding Thai herbs which are good for our health benefits.

There is such a broad range of Thai dishes available every single corner in Thailand, in particular in Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand. In this reason, you don’t know exactly where to begin, what food you should eat in Thailand. So that, I have a short guide of my top 3 Thai dishes for you to enjoy it. To remind you that the main reason of Thai dishes is a balance of five flavors; spicy, salty, sweet, sour and bitter.

That is the point which makes Thai foods is well-known all around the world. I’m so proud of my country. I have to tell you that one thing you don’t miss to put in Thai dishes is fish sauce in much the same way as soy sauce in Chinese cooking. We normally eat Thai dishes with steamed rice, unlike in the north and the northeast of Thailand; they always eat with sticky rice.

                         

Here are my favorite top 3 Thai foods;

Spicy Papaya Salad or Som Tam.

It’s one of the most famous ones. You can find it everywhere. Locals know it so well.  Do you know how to cook it? It is a spicy salad made from a mix of fresh vegetables including raw papaya, long bean, and tomato. It usually is served with sticky rice and grilled chicken. The only reason why I give a credit of this dish is healthy and good for our digestion. Don’t miss to tell a waiter that “Mai Phed”, not spicy, if you would like less chili pepper.

Green Curry with Chicken, Kang Keaw Wan Gai.

If you have heard, Thai people say “Gai. It means “Chicken.” In Thai style of cooking, chicken is the main meat. You can find it in every curry and soup.  Kang keaw Wan, mentioned above, means “Sweet Green Curry.” It is nicely sweet and less spicy and also its tastes very delightful with a proper blend of green curry chili paste, coconut milk which makes its mild, sweetness of sugar and saltiness of fish sauce. Definitely, it’s always served with steamed rice or spaghetti-like noodle or Kanom Jeen in Thai word. And here my last one:

Chicken in Coconut Milk, Tom Kha Gai.

It’s a kind of chicken soup. It deserves rank number 3 because of its unparalleled taste and popularity. Similar to Tom Yam Gai, both are prepared with many kinds of Thai herbs, but it’s special because of adding the coconut milk that makes this soup so unique. It is seasoned with chili, lime and fish sauce just like Tom Yam Gai. Thanks to coconut milk, both are milder and less spicy.

It’s just a short guide, but I hope that it’s useful more or less. You can also enjoy more kinds of Thai food. I promise to bring more detail of “how to cook Thai food.” For you guys!!!

Articled by Jimmy

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Top 7 Superfoods That Help Cutting the Risky Disease

Top 7 Super Foods 
That Help Cutting the Risky Disease

Dry beans

DON’T need to eat an expensive steak. Dry beans and dry lentils pack a healthy low-fat, plant-based protein punch. It is known as a "Superfood," just one cooked cupful can provide as much as 17 grams of fiber. Beans are also contained with protein and dozens of key nutrients, including calcium (Ca), potassium (K), and magnesium (Mg). Several studies reveal that beans can help to reduce risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and breast and colon cancers.

Notice: Soak beans overnight and rinse them well to eliminate most of the flatulence-causing compounds.

Garlic

Garlic contains more than 70 active phytochemicals, including allicin, which help to decrease high blood pressure by as much as 30 points. The study also shows that high consumption of garlic lowered rates of ovarian, colorectal, and other cancers, according to a research review in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In order to boost garlic's health effects, be sure to crush the cloves and let them stand for up to 30 minutes before heating them.

Cayenne pepper

If you don’t like a spicy bird eye chili, you can try cayenne pepper, it’s less spicy. However, if you can handle the heat from them, this powerhouse pepper is worth your while. The heat in cayenne peppers come from a phytochemical called capsaicin, which can help clear congestion, fight cholesterol, melt away body fat, and jump-start your metabolism.

Celery

The study about eating four sticks of celery a day can produce modest reductions in blood pressure. Thanks to celery, the vegetable's rich supply of phthalides, phytochemicals linked to cardiovascular health. One thing that men, you never forget “Celery is loaded with androstenone and androstenol, pheromones that help attract women.”

Tomatoes

Tomatoes are the most common source of lycopene, which is an antioxidant that may protect against heart disease and breast cancer. You can easily grow in your own, while canned tomatoes, a cheaper option when fresh tomatoes are out of season. It can expose you to the harmful plastic chemical BPA, which is used in the epoxy coatings that line cans.

   
Onions

What make an onion becoming one of the best foods to boast far-reaching health benefits, that its including immunity-boosting compounds that can help prevent everything from the common cold to cancer. Onions are also rich in quercetin, a flavonoid shown to keep your blood healthy. It's also a must-have for natural allergy prevention.

Tip: Store your onions somewhere cool and dry, such as a dark cabinet or unused closet, and that two-pound bag will last for months.

Oats

Oats are rich in avenanthramide, which is an active antioxidant that protects the heart. The superfood, oats, lowers cholesterol and has been shown to possess disease-zapping antimicrobial activity, making organic oatmeal the perfect affordable breakfast item for cold and flu season.

Top Secret of Green Coffee Bean Extract

Top Secret of Green Coffee Bean Extract

For the part ten years, many researchers have studied in several ways to find the best way to help people who suffer from their overweight condition, especially in western country, even in the United States. The result shows that participants who lost an average of 17.5 pounds in 22 weeks, about 10.5 percent of their body fat.

It’s a huge breakthrough of green coffee bean extract, putting its on the map for fisrt time in years. Green coffee bean comes from arobica plant, by not roasting them. The reason is to keep an active compound called “Chlorogenic Acid”, in which help to stimulate the body’s metabolism to burn excess fat. It also reduce the blood sugar level by inhibiting glucose-6-phosphate, which is an enzyme released from liver stores, by inhibiting this enzyme, the liver slow down the release of sugar into the blood circulation.

Here are others benefits of green coffee bean extract as the list below;

1.     Reduce high blood pressure

2.     Improve the liver health

3.     Help pain relief

4.     Blood sugar

In the study of liver health, led by the U.S. Army, researchers found that coffee drinkers who take two cups of coffee a day were less likely to suffer from liver damage as a result of consuming a large of alcohol. So, I hope this article will be useful for you. I promise I will bring more health benefits of red wine and beer coming up soon.