Eatery: Han Bat
Han Bat, 53 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 (btw 5th & 6th)
24hrs restaurant in K-Town
Caution: plates bigger than photo!
The sizes are quite generous compared to others for the same standard numbers across Korean Town.
11 giant fried rice with 5 meat/veggie choices: I chose shrimp+kimchi fried rice: so much jumbo shrimp (but qu-qu hardness suggests cheaper-grade shrimp, compare to real spongy texture at real seafood exclusives). Soft kimchi compared to the cold crispy kimchi in the side. For the wallet it’s the most shrimp you can find. The flavoring is fairly good, and will depend on how you mix the five elements. You can get it vegan too.
Bibimbap: my friend ordered beef Bibimbap, standard sized and number. But the egg and beef looked nice.
Korean pancake, soups, (possible) free ox bone soup: Big? Will try next time!
free sides: 6 dishes, but unlike other K-eats, they didn’t refill. But it’s ok since the portions are over the top.
As usual we get a bottle of sweet hot sauce.
meal midtown…Coldstone included
Prologue…
should be writing more about food and health under this economy in big NYC. First off due to a stigma of writing/talking the money sign, learned from advice of many friends, I’ll try to avoid it with curious methods. Also for food, health comes first generally. It’s all a social standards thing.
13μ meal midtown…
We’ve been around here, but far from trying each store. It’s where all the broadway shows are and port authority, all classy restaurants. To reach a rather nice meal of 13μ in that area, first off…
My first Yoshinoya (255 w 42nd st) visit in US. This is common in Taiwan, but the menu and stle’s mostly different except the beef and chicken bowls. I’d rate them down since it’s premade (instant delivery!), unlike the Taiwan ones where they actually cook something. But the block veggies are fresh & colorful, not oily. Slightly better efficiency than Panda Express’s beef/brocolli bowl. If you are a clam chowder lover, you’d enjoy the ultra steaming denseness, and your pocket will empty half as fast than any in-restaurant soups. Forget canned soups. Since in NYC you should realize generally soups = smoothy = small meal by pocket capacity.
In contrast, socially it’s fine to mention calories in every uttered sentence. Or talk in joules, just to be IS compliant? This combination will give around 850cal.
Next stop walk a few stores down to Coldstone, yes it’s under 30F, and lots of people inside. So we got large ice creams, 600-1000cal a cup. My friend had the funny idea of walking out in the wind to eat it, since he doesn’t like melted ice cream. Er, nobody’s doing that but OK. So my fingers froze, but the cheesecake/fruits was just too good. And talk about twisted Chinese concepts of using warm natured foods to preserve health: Icecream is cold, but only a short while, and the 800cal will heat 800g of water in me up 1C. High calory items, way to keep warm in the chill!!
Compare it to Applebee’s and others nearby and you’ll know it’s nice. So that’s a 13μ meal for three well made foods in a classy district, and warm yourself with 1600-1800 calories.
heat minimization – 夏日消暑
Foods for cooling yourself during the heat:
sour plum
酸梅
green bean: prevents heat stroke
綠豆: “防止中暑”
lily leaves?
荷葉
sour yellow melon
黃瓜
dong gua, type of squash/melon: helps lose weight
冬瓜: “肥胖的人常吃，還可助於減重輕身”
tomato
番茄
watermelon: eases urination
西瓜: “利小便”
lian oh
蓮藕
western veggie: eases restroom trip
洋菜: “潤燥通便”
http://www.functionalfood.org.tw/news/News97/News9707/news970702-1.htm
More vegetables, less oils, no fried, over processed foods.
Fruits
Warm fruits (provides energy, inner heat):
lychee, dragon eye, papaya
溫性水果: 荔枝、龍眼、木瓜，可使身體體能亢奮，增加熱能及活力，可使寒性體質者改善衰退、貧血現象；但熱性體質者多吃會過度亢進，而產生發腫、充血、便祕的情形。
Cold fruits (calms, cools):
peach, mango, oriental musk melon, honeydew, other melons
涼性水果: 梨子、芒果、香瓜、哈密瓜等瓜類，可助鎮靜機能及清涼消炎作用，使實熱體質者改善機能、減緩炎症及興奮性，並可消除失眠現象；但寒性體質者多吃，則會使冷症及貧血更嚴重。
Energizing CHI fruits:
grape
補性水果如葡萄，可增強體力、增加元氣，適合虛弱體質的人，若實熱體質的人吃多了，會造成便祕、排汗困難，而引發發炎、中毒等病症。
Diarrhea fruits (cools, hastens bacteria flushing from intestines):
pineapple, banana, watermelon, plum, sugarcane
瀉性水果如鳳梨、香蕉、西瓜、李子、甘蔗，可協助病菌或有毒物質由體內排出，改善實熱體質的便祕、充血、發炎，但體質虛弱者若食用過多，會下痢，使身體更虛弱。
http://mhaonlam.myweb.hinet.net/C1/new_257_1.htm
Extensive char of foods by temperature
| 熱性 | 大蒜 山葵(芥末) | 辣椒 胡椒 | 酒 | |||||
| 溫性 | 糯米、高梁 | 刀豆、蠶豆 | 韭菜、香菜、芥菜、九層塔、紫蘇 | 洋蔥、生薑、蔥、藕(熟) | 冬蟲夏草、松子、蒟蒻、南瓜、南瓜、檳榔、大茴香 | 炒(油炸)花生、炒(芝麻)、粟子、乾桑椹 | 荔枝、龍眼、番石榴、櫻桃、烏梅、核桃、全桔、山楂、杏仁 | 差肉、羊乳、鮮魚、蝦、醋、白沙糖(平)、黑沙糖、人乳無定性 |
| 平性 | 玉米、米、青稞 | 黃豆、四季豆、毛豆、白扁豆、花豆、碗豆、紅豆、甜豆 | 白菜、高麗菜、秋葵、花椰菜 | 葫蘆、胡蘿蔔、芋頭、蕃薯、百合、山藥、馬鈴薯 | 香菇、木耳、金針菇、猴頭菇、玉蜀黍、甜椒、白木耳、八角茴香、小茴香 | 銀杏、杏仁、南瓜子、蓮子、大棗、蒸煮花生、白果、枸杞子、西瓜子 | 葡萄、波蘿蜜、鳳梨、蘋果、枇杷、檸檬、木瓜、李、橄欖、楊桃 | 豬肉、牛肉、燕窩、雞肉、鵪鶉肉(蛋)、雞蛋、泥鰍、鰻魚、黃花魚、魚翅、帶魚、鮑魚、青蛙、海參、烏賊、花生油 |
| 涼性 | 小米、大麥、薏仁、蕎麥 | 油菜、菠菜、莧菜、芹菜、紅鳳菜、金針菜、髮菜 | 絲瓜、黃瓜、菱角 | 花生(生用偏涼) | 枇杷、草莓、橘子、柳丁 | 兔肉、牛乳、麻油 | ||
| 寒性 | 小麥 | 綠豆、淡豆鼓、黑大豆、豆腐、豆漿、綠豆芽、黃豆芽 | 海帶、海藻、空心菜、紫菜、龍鬚菜、地瓜葉 | 蓮藕(生)、竹筍、茭白荀、冬瓜、胡瓜、茄子、苦瓜、蘿蔔、西洋菜(豆瓣菜)、甘蔗、蘆荀、馬蹄 | 生用芝麻微寒、無花果性平偏寒 | 香蕉、奇異果、水朵、子、柚子、西瓜、蕃茄、香瓜 | 鴨、鵝肉、醬油、蛤蚌類、田螺、牡蠣、蟹 |
warm meat: goat milk, human milk, fresh fish, shrimp
cold meat: bunny, milk (cow)
chilly meat: duck, goose, crab, clam
http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/question?qid=1406072004195
Exercise
I’m considering two types. The second type is hard to allot time, since recently (6/26?) I got an intern for doing animation…more like coding but whatever suits real fun. Some human parts need a 24hr gap between exercises, and other parts 48hr. Whatever suits you, just make sure parts are maintained and not overstressed. It’s also common for the more serious to exercise once a morning, once an early night…dusk?
An exercise club a few days ago was nice, and free, but the intern conflicts in time. Maybe I have to go to paid ones to flex some schedule. But the student trainers in the club are excellent and helpful, besides one student sounding like the pig voice talent in Naruto–it’s SOOO fuNNYYY!! It’s like hearing a cartoon piglet while training….or having a voice talent perform live.
Besides all this, I hiked Yang Ming Shan with a group in one steamy afternoon. Some combination of exercises caused some issues with the calf area, hmm latent injuries are hard to prevent.
Work tired me out, but I should view exercise as an elevating, relaxing force, even tho it drains my energy so.
Nutrition
Tidbit of research in muscle growth/retention.
Warning: author is very newbie on nutrition, read with grain of digital salt.
Two best protein sources are soy isolate and whey isolate.
PDCAAS-latest measurement of protein quality for humans.
PDCAAS of Common Foods
milk 1.0
whey 1.0
soy protein isolate 1.0
soybean 0.91
beef 0.92
peanuts 0.52
Despite the very high amounts of protein (100g+) in a cheap peanut butter can, as above, its protein efficiency is one of the lowest.
Hydrolization-breaks down protein into smaller fractions. Very expensive. Only needed for people of very poor digestive systems.
2 types of amino acid per 100g protein
BCAA, glutamine, arginine
whey 26 4.9 2.9
soy 17 10.5 7.6
milk 20 8.8 3.7?
Amino Acids
Glutamine-Functions to synthesize protein.
BCAA-synthesize protein. 1/3 of skeletal muscle.
Arginine-helps insulin and growth hormones. Heals, removes ammonium. May aggravate heart disease.
Casein-high cholesterol. Cheese/milk.
Egg white-10% carb. Expensive?
Soy protein isolate-increases thyroxin.
Thyroxin-increases metabolic rate. Higher metabolism prevents loading food into fat; food immediately used to service body instead.
During diet, body tends to use in the order, the three amino acids, breakdown muscles, and lastly breakdown fat.
Soy helps keep calcium more than animal protein.
References:
http://www.arlafoodsingredients.com
http://www.timinvermont.com/fitness/soyvswhy.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/
