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The personal food blog of Sinma DaShow

Food literacy

As I prepare for my trip back to the farms up north, my thoughts continue to linger on this subject.  If we are living a hundred or two years ago, you and I would likely be workers of the fields, fisher of seafood, rarer of livestock.  At home I will find wholesome slow-cooked home made goodness

Eat clean now

  This isn’t another of those Hollywood celebrities-endorsed dietary fads.  Clean eating is common sense. It is about consuming food in its whole with the use of wholesome ingredients and strictly no substitutes. (FYI if you have not realized, tons of laboratory-designed and made food substitutes and flavorings that taste like food but that’s the closest it is to to being

Tsukiji Market closed to public

Thanks to all tourists, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has announced it will temporarily close Tsukiji Market’s tuna auction site to the public from Thursday, citing increasing number of visitors that is affecting the market’s operations. Tsukiji Market in Chuo Ward, a Metropolitan Central Wholesale market with almost everything you need to make yourself a Japanese

Back in the city

Lights are off. The entire market is vacant and desserted. Yet there is a long line forming at this God forsaken hours on another regular week day. There are no weekend morning rush hour marketing to be done and while most hawkers and vendors are sound asleep at least for the next few hours before they get up for a brand

The hen lays eggs

Ok I have made countless egg omelettes to this day.  Not only have I made them I probably have eaten over a ton of food, snacks and pastries made with eggs in my lifetime.  I know how raw eggs look like and how they turn from a gooey transparent with a orange center into a firm thin

Peace Project

Over the last 2 days we been visiting our assigned site at B.A.  Alex Arokiam, the man behind these projects bringing hope to the people who needed them most.  Alex secured this site, a piece of land about 2 hectare with an abandoned reservoir for the HIV patients he has been providing for; most HIV patients are drug

Our Food Chain

Right after breakfast M and I headed up to the durian plantation to collect brown for our compost pile.  This has serve as part of our daily routine since the group arrived.  And of course getting out at this hour in the woods we serve as nice breakfast to the mozzies.  They must be delighted