Vegan Laksa

Vegan Laksa from Xing Hua Vegetarian to-go !

Here you see the rich thick gravy covering the "tow-pok" or fried tofu skin. It soaks up the taste and flavour, and it is vegan !

It is amazing that a vegetarian restaurant from China can adapt their cooking so well to the local taste and flavour. With rich curry and coconut mixed with spices, laksa is a year round favourite in this part of the world. The vegan version is just as spicy and hot, and having no animal ingredients in it is a great plus both for the consumer spiritually and for saving the planet !

Tofu with chai por

Introducing another simple home cooking idea. Steamed soft tofu with chai por, or preserved salted vegetables. Soak the preserved vegetables up to 20 minutes to make sure the preservatives are removed, and it will also be less salty to taste.

This easy meal forms a ready to eat side dish served with rice or noodle.

Good Photography Tips 2

If you are moving from a point and shoot camera to a higher end compact camera or DSLR camera, then you should be very familiar with the "Auto" shooting mode, or the Green mode as it is called sometimes.

In the Auto mode, everything is pre-arranged by the camera, all you need to do is point the camera and press the shutter button, hence it is called point-and-shoot.

In this mode, there is minimum control and minimum fuss. You just trust the camera to do the work for you, select the right focus, exposure etc. Most of the time it will do a proper job, but on occassions it will miss the mark.

The various scene modes commonly found in P & S cameras, such as night scene, portrait, sports, landscape etc are also special Auto modes. They assume that you are going to shoot the subject indicated and the camera will arrange certain parameters suitable for those conditions.

So if you are moving up to a better camera, it will also be time to explore other features of the camera by moving away from the "Auto" mode, such as using the Program Mode. The program mode is the bridge from complete Auto to the creative, or more manual modes.

Play around with the Program Mode, and learn to shoot in this mode, until you grow out of it, then you can explore the other more "advanced" modes such as Aperture-priority, Shutter-priority and full manual.

In the Program Mode, you can explore taking photos with different exposure values, by simply turning the dial, and you will find the exposure values are equivalent for the same scene. This means the photos should come out more or less the same brightness but each time you turn the dial, a different apperture and speed combination is used.

Buffet breakfast with Loving Hut - Vegan kaya bread

Here's a nice vegan breakfast idea !!

Call Loving Hut if you are holding a vegan buffet party and order the sumptious platter of toasted French bread with delicious vegan kaya.

And a cup of healthy green tea to go along with the bread would just be perfect..

A healthy life saving meal is a great way to start your day !

Delicious Children's Fish Meal

Cook a vegan fish meal for the children toay !!

They will like it. It's healthy, it's delicious, it's tasty, it's colorful, it's life saving !!

Sweet and sour fish made using the faux seaweed fish slices saute with slices of cucumber and tomatoes.. sweet and delightful for children..

Add a ham and tofu vegetables soup, and you have a perfect meal for your growing up kids..

It's humane. It's kind to be a vegetarian.

Spread the love in your vegetarian cooking. Everyone in the family will enjoy it.

Hsihu Beauty 西湖美景

The new book Celestial Art commemorates the 20th Anniversary of the founding of Hsihu Center. This series of posts will introduce you to the beauty of hsihu and its varous landscapes. In the beginning, the Hsihu Center was a farming outpost with nothing but tall, wild grasses in its early days, and having been transformed through the hard work of Supreme Master Ching Hai and residents there into such a beautiful place it is now..

The transformation is nothing short of miraculous and visitors are full of amazement at the tremendous beauty and spiritual peace which exist in the air..

Say NO to Human Swine Flu !! Ban all meat products from your life !!

The signs are clear. We know what it is.. A hybrid mutant bird-swine-human flu is affecting almost 22 countries in the world and spreading rapidly amongst human beings.

We have to stop it now.. or let it kill us all..

How best can we do that ?

The answer is clear and simple to millions of vegetarians all over the world.

Heed our call for action. Please ban meat and all meat-based products from your life !!

That is how you can help to save the world.

Please act now before it is too late. We need to stop the global warming crisis, the disasters and plagues affecting us... All these we can stop if we have peace in our plate. Ban meat !! It is killing all of us.

Be Veg. Go Veg. Be Virtuous. Save our world !