[Veggie Kitchen] Oriental Chestnut Rice

Here is something easy for the lazy saturday afternoon. Chop the veggies and pan fried them with seasoning until light brown. Toss them with rice, water, soy sauce, sesame oil to the rice cooker.
Within half an hour, ta da! The dinner is ready!

Recipe
Red peper - 1/2 cup
Onion - 1/2 cup
Mushroom - 1/3 cup
Chestnuts - Pre water boiled
Rice - 1 cup
Garlic - little
Carrots - little  
White pepper powered - little
Sesame oil - 1 tea spoon
Soy sauce - 2 tea spoon

If the kids are choosy, you use pumpkin instead of chestnuts. Both of them contain good carbs.

[Tea for the day] Detox Tea from Just Herb

According to Chinese herbalism, Spring is the time for detoxify. If any of us can make the most of this season by sleeping before 11pm, a healthy year is promised.  Too bad it is already 1am for me. As believed by Chinese traditional medicine, 11pm - 1 am is the time when all the blood goes to liver.  Liver is one of the key organs to produce blood and cleans the toxins.

Just Herbs is a Taiwanese brand, their herbal tea uses the imported herbs from the German company, Martin Bauer GmbH & Co.  which is the expert for tea, extracts and botanicals. You can find out more here. Just Herbs have some interesting stuff, I use a lot of their aromatherapy products for meditation and healing purpose. 

[Travel] Spring is here!

Wherever you are at this moment, have you noticed the weather has become a bit warmer? Shanghai has rises averagely from 0 degrees to 10 degrees. HK and Taiwan rises from 10 to 20 degrees.....Who can say No to Spring?

It is the flower season in Taiwan, the speciality of these few weeks are the Sakura and Azalea. Let's enjoy the natural beauty......