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Heal Your Emotions With Food

These foods can help you regulate your moods in a natural way.

Sorrow and grief: Reach for cauliflower, turnips and asparagus. These foods resonate with the immunity system, lungs and large intestine organs which in the Chinese medicine system are associated with processing emotional grief.

Asparagus naturally supports healthy bronchial tissues to open up the lungs when grief is causing you to feel like you just cannot take a deep breath. The turnips and cauliflower help to support your immunity system so that the process of living with and healing grief does not leave you vulnerable to developing colds, flu and bacterial infections. It can be challenging enough just dealing with the emotional impact grief without the added stress of becoming physically ill. So, try these foods to help protect your health during a process of grieving. Continue reading “Heal Your Emotions With Food”

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A Few Japanese Dating Phrases That Will Help You In Your Date With Japanese Girls and Women

What more can melt a Japanese girl’s heart than by saying Japanese dating phrases truthfully? Yes, it’s only words and words are all you’ve got to take a Japanese woman into falling for you. This may sound like something from a love song, but there’s plenty of truth in that. Women generally like to be flattered, but don’t overdo it because they can tell if you are telling the truth or not (at least most of them do). Dating a Japanese girl requires extra effort if you really like the girl. You must learn a bit of the language to impress. Learning a few phrases is not a very difficult task. You just have to focus and remember certain phrases and their corresponding meaning.

The following are some of the Japanese dating phrases which you can use that can make flashing chink eyes brighten. These phrases might be difficult to memorize at first and repeated vocal practice might be necessary. Continue reading “A Few Japanese Dating Phrases That Will Help You In Your Date With Japanese Girls and Women”

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China’s Chocolate Market Dominated by Foreign Brands

Foreign chocolate brands such as Dove, Cadbury and Hershey’s have now captured about 70% of the Chinese chocolate market. As Barry Callebaut, the world’s largest chocolate manufacturer with 25% of the global market, recently opened its first chocolate factory in China in Suzhou City, the top 20 chocolate companies in the world have now all entered the Chinese market. But in the face of global competition, China’s local chocolate companies have been further suppressed down the value chain.

Second largest chocolate market

As the CHF 4 billion-revenue-per-year Barry Callebaut set up its first production line in Suzhou, a complete multinational chocolate industry chain is also emerging. Industry insiders suggested that this would be a blow to local Chinese chocolate companies in this globalized competition. It further indicated that keeping up with international competition is particularly important, or the Chinese industry chain will become even more vulnerable. Continue reading “China’s Chocolate Market Dominated by Foreign Brands”

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Benefits of an Electric Wok Appliance For Cooking

Woks role is cooking Southeast Asian cuisine like Thai and Chinese food. However, they specialize for stir-fry, then you could use them for boiling, deep-frying, steaming, braising, and making stews and soups. They are versatile cooking utensils made from a variety of materials. You have woks made from stainless steel, cast iron, carbon steel and aluminum. There is also an electric wok. You do not need a stove to cook in such a wok. Simply plug it to an electrical source and the wok itself acts like a heating element.

Advantages of using a wok that uses electricity are several. Apart from cooking delicious food, they have some advantages over other woks. Let us highlight some of them:

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How to Prepare the Perfect Black Fungus Salad

Only a few years ago, we went back to my hometown in China to see my parents, my dad ordered this once in a restaurant. I totally fell in love with it.

It is traditionally prepared only with Chinese black fungus and cucumber. But, one day, I had some fried peanuts left, and I was just looking for a way to finish them off. So, I put the peanuts into the dish, and it worked, and it combines so well with ‘old vinegar’. So I started adding peanuts in. However, the peanuts are totally optional.

About Black Fungus

There is a lot to say about this ‘Black fungus’. It is a kind of Chinese mushroom, the most famous one is from the mountains called ‘Da Xing An Ling’ crossing the whole three Northeast provinces.

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The Chinese Weight Loss Secret Revealed

Have you heard about the Chinese weight loss secret? Maybe you have heard of this, but a little more attention may make you familiar with this even more.

Everyone knows that obesity is a major problem in America, and probably the most that any obese person can do is to deny it. But for someone who heeds for his health and life, he may consider various methods of losing weight.

Being overweight has something to do with one’s lifestyle-food and amount of activity. Therefore for you to get perfectly in shape, you have to modify this aspect of your life. Continue reading “The Chinese Weight Loss Secret Revealed”

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The Best Indian Food in Long Island

Indian food is different from rest of the world not only in taste but also in cooking methods. It reflects a perfect blend of various cultures and ages. Just like Indian culture, food in India has also been influenced by various civilizations, which have contributed their share in its overall development and the present form.

Foods of India are better known for its spiciness. Throughout India, spices are used generously in food. But one must not forget that every single spice used in Indian dishes carries some the other nutritional as well as medicinal properties. The tantalizing aroma, enticing spices and rich taste of the cuisine is hard to resist utterly unforgettable.

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Natural Dog Food, Why My Dog Likes to Eat Porridge? – Have Shiny Black Coat

A bowl of comforting porridge or congee brought me back childhood memories as I remember my dog likes to eat home cook porridge. And I will tell you why.

I used to have this dog which is a cross breed. I had the dog when I was about 13 years old. Our family friend advised us that to make the dog fur looks shinny and thick, we must give him natural black “gula melaka” (a kind of traditional palm sugar in Malaysia) mixed with porridge. It really makes his fur thick and shiny black. Even few of my neighbors asked us what special food we gave him that make him looks so good and healthy.

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Marketing Advantages Of Restaurant Directories

What would be the most effective way of restaurant marketing? How can a restaurant directory help you to increase your sales leads? In fact, a restaurant directory can be an effective way of restaurant marketing.

People have stereotype perceptions about marketing, which usually make them to invest in advertisements and other conventional methods. Very few people realize the restaurant directory as a crucial way to advertise and improve the web presence of your restaurant.

The Restaurant and Cafe business are emerging as a major industry these days, people are changing their dining habits – for instant, noodles are not limited to only Chinese food stores, in the same way burgers are available all around the world. Thus, as far as foods are concerned, we are globalized. Continue reading “Marketing Advantages Of Restaurant Directories”

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Popular Indian Street Foods

If you have ever been to India, you know that eating out on the streets will be a treat to your taste buds. Street food is a passion in India. It is common to find groups of friends and families going out for their daily dose of street food during evenings on Indian roads. The hygiene may not be the top most priority for the street food vendors, but taste surely is. Cheap and tasty food is what you get when you eat out on the streets. Here are a few of the well-loved street foods available in the country.

1. Chaat: Now this is a street food specialty that is popular throughout the length and breadth of the country. The ‘chaat’ is available in a huge number of varieties according to the location it is found in. Golgappas, Alu Chaat, Papri Chaat, Dahi Bhalla, Faluda and Panipuri are just a few of the chaats found here. Each region has its own specialties. While Calcutta is famous for its Phuchka and Jhaalmuri, Delhi is famous for its Alu and Chana Chat. Most people will usually have their favorite places for a quick chaat in their neighborhood where they will go down to almost every evening for a snack! Continue reading “Popular Indian Street Foods”