Chinatown Food Complex - Dessert Station

I believe that our food is medicine. Given that our cells die and renew within every few months, the food we eat, the air we breathe and water we drink, thoughts we think affect how the next generation of cells, how they are formed and their inherent DNA. In lesser words, our DNA is changeable and we actions and choices impact our DNA.

Thus the rationale for my picky food choices. I'm trying to steer clear of processed food, cooking oils, MSG, any form of chemicals in our food. Trying to cut down on sugar too, wish me luck on that. But still, I do eat junk food. Just that with all this new gained knowledge, I enjoy them less.

Right. But in every case, it has become a habit to selective choose healthier versions, including desserts. I love desserts, all the hot desserts, especially bean soups, sesame pastes, peanut pastes, yam pastes, gingko nut and beancurd, etc. I think you get the idea. But they usually contain too much sugar for my preference. So I prefer to cook my own sometimes. Except for Sesame paste. Far too much work.

And today a dessert stall in particular really won my heart.

 Dessert Station is at the red zone in Chinatown Complex and by 2pm, their yam paste was sold out. That was probably my first clue.

So I ordered my favourite Sesame paste instead.

Most sesame paste are made using pre-made black sesame flour, some starch and water. The black sesame flour might have had sugar already added. Thus they taste pretty much the same everywhere.

Except for this one.

Black Sesame paste - $1.80

 One the first try I found it grittier and stronger tasting than most black sesame paste. And on closer look, I can see oil from the black sesame coating spoon.

This is probably one of the rare stalls which grind and mill their own sesame flour, from roasted black sesame seeds. Thus their black sesame taste far less of sugar and starch but very much of the real stuff.

Oh my................it's really really good!  I'll definitely try to have some whenever I'm in the area. If I'm lucky, perhaps I'll get to try the yam paste next time!

Updated - Apparently, they have branches. One of which is located at Albert Centre Food market at bugis!


Dessert Station

Chinatown Food Complex - 2nd Floor Red zone #02-132
Opening hours - 10plus am till 8plus pm

New horizons

Hallo!

I hadn't update this space for a looong time. Mostly because the water diet has since made me a very poor food blogger. I rarely eat out now and even when I do, it's highly selective.

But just to share more in the meantime about my own biological changes.

I had been cooking for myself 5 out of 7 days, and it's basically stir-fried 5 - 7 different vegetables in a non-stick pan. No seasoning, no oil, just black pepper for taste. And it's pretty great. Perhap cos I don't add water, so the veg pretty much cook in their own steam (just cover the pan) and are slightly charred at the bottom. Which, is actually pretty nice.

My stir-fried salad, consisting of Shitake mushrooms, brown mushrooms, cauliflower, broccoli, carrot and yam.
Takes 30 minutes to wash, cut, and cook. 

Beside both hot or cool salads, I would have a banana with almond butter for brekkie, and nuts/seeds/fruits inbetween. Or bean soups.

So it's been quite a clean diet, with lots of healthy oils and fats coming from nuts or seeds.

I have a friend, who since I had known for awhile back, hardly eats at foodcourt or kopitiam. I thought he was just picky but recently, I realised why. After a while on homecooked food, I met a friend at the food court for supper and ordered some dishes from a vegetarian stall. After which, I felt uncomfortable. Why? I can feel the cooking oil coating my stomach in grease, and the sharpness of msg and salt on my tongue.  And that my body really would prefer to remove the effects of these chemical foods.

It was an interestingly experience on the effects of cooking oil, which I ate growing up and hardly felt a thing then.

In conclusion, I have now officially gained my place in the picky eaters' club.

More on cooking oil and their effects on the body here; http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/06/28/vegetable-oils.aspx
http://blog.sejalvora.com/2010/10/25/the-truth-about-refined-cooking-oil/