Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Asian Desi Food






When talking about the food of Pakistan everyone minds sparks with Spicy foods. Pakistan is multi ethnical culture where its western border linked with Iran and Afghanistan and eastern border linked with India. After migration in 1947 people comes form all over India to Pakistan mostly in Urban Sindh and few in Punjab. Due to merging of different cultures Pakistan create his own flavor of tastes. If you travel to Pakistan you find the spice changes place to place, if you starts from Karachi, the Burns road is one of the oldest food place and as the Karachi become the metropolitan having population almost 1.7 Billions the other famous place also established like Zamzama street, Boat basin, Husainabad and Super High way Restaurants. All these places you will find the most common food items are Biryani, Karahi, Katakat, Pizzas etc with lots of spice.





In Bolochistan like Quetta you will feel a quite different taste of Rousted Chicken, Mutton etc with less spice. They just put some Masalas in Mutton and put on fire, this is pretty original style and delicious too. Same is the way we used to see in NWFP also influenced by Afghanistan type of dishes like one of the famous are Chapli Kabab. Cities of NWFP Peshawar, Murdan are famous for Chapli Kabab.




Punjab is Pakistan largest Province has actually distinguish into three parts, one is southern Punjab where cities like Rahim Yaar Khan, Bahawalpur, Multan etc then Central Punjab Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Okara, Lahore, Shaikhupura, Sialkot and then Northern Punjab cites like Chakwal, Rawalpindi , Wah Cantt and Islamabad. In Southern Punjab where food stuff is more traditional than Sindh, most famous are Multani sweets like Sohan Halwa. Central Punjab has its own rich culture people lives there are actually richer than any other parts of Pakistan. Sialkot and Faisalabad are major industrial cities and so as Lahore and these things shows in its life style and food. Food are pretty spicy, one of Pakistan famous place for food are in Lahore called Gawalmandi food Street where many small hotels and restaurants are on a single street therefore many local and foreigners comes to eat mouth watering Pakistani foods. Most famous dishes are Lahori Chargha, Tikka boti, Kabab and many other delicious sweets and ice creams.





Same we have found there is lots of Desi Food Shops simultaneously, we observed tremendous growth of foreign food chains, and most common are Pizza Hut, KFC, and McDonalds etc.
Pizza hut was started with Italian taste then gradually divert to desi taste and that create a huge impact on sales and we have notice that people come to pizza wanted to eat Chicken Tikka Pizza etc. Now there is lots of other companies stared selling pizzas and most known are Dominos Pizza, Papa Johns Pizza and Penny Pizza etc.
KFC also starts many franchises all over Pakistan and the cities where you can find KFC are Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Multan, Sialkot, Jehlum, Hyderabad, Peshawar, Gujranwala & Sukkar.




Italian Food










If you wish to have a wonderful time with your date in the town, then a Italian restaurant is the best place to go to.. Italian foods are always romantic and below are some pointers to pick a fine restaurant.
It is important to choose the place serving authentic Italian food; else your date might eng up looking cheap. How can you know which is authentic? Just look at your menu; whenever you are able to understand it, then it's not really authentic. If you are seeking for Italian foods rather than just pizza and spaghetti, you may as well speak to a few people who are working at the restaurant. While I'm seeking a good Italian food experience I'll unquestionably need the people making the food to speak more Italian rather than English. You will be able to bet that the dishes will be more American than Italian, if you find the restaurant filled with American ambience.
When you have found a restaurant with a fine menu, next try and understand it .More over you cannot make a good first impression if your order something and then later being surprised to find out what it really is when it arrives at the table. Decide what to choose in advance and know the proper pronunciation. Make sure to find out about your date's likes when it comes to Italian food. You can impress your date if you are reading and selecting the dishes from the menu card like an Italian expert.

Now your Italian food and then wine are done with, the next matter is to look for a restaurant with good atmosphere. There are actually two ways to do this. The first thing is with more traditional good dining restaurant with dim lighting and perhaps some slow romantic music in your background. This will be an excellent choice. At the same time, the best Italian food might be come up at the humble restaurants with f a home feel about it. This might be equally romantic till the restaurant is not getting very crowded. There you will be able to enjoy not just good Italian food, but will also have a memorable experience of your date. If the eating house does not have candles or flowers on your table you might add the romantic touch by bringing your own candles and roses in order to decorate your table. And your date will really get impressed with your step on seeing that your table is clearly better than others.

Chinese Food



Chinese food therapy dates back as early as 2000 BC.Chinese food therapy is a practice of healing using natural foods instead of medications. Chinese food therapy is a modality of traditional Chinese medicine, also known as Chinese Nutrition Therapy. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, which is also known as the Niejing, was written around 300 BC is important in forming the basis of Chinese food therapy.Philosophy of Chinese Food Therapy - The philosophy behind Chinese food therapy is that everything must be balanced. This begins by discovering the polar opposites of foods that are available and combining them for a middle ground. Yin and yang are the philosophy that is used for foods, giving the best combination of elements for health. Yang is known to increase body heat, which will raise the metabolism to process nutrients. Yin then combines with this to decrease the body heat, which will balance the nutrients that are being processed in the metabolism.








Causes of Illnesses - According to Chinese medicine, improper meal and unbalanced diet can be one of the major causes of illness. Not eating balanced and proper meal can lead to a stop in the right energy flow in your body, causing your body to not have the ability to process its nutritional needs correctly. The alternative that is suggested is Chinese food therapy, where there is a balance between the food that you eat and the nutrition that you get.
Treatment Methods - In order for Chinese food therapy to work properly, there has to be an understanding of how your body reacts to specific things. If you are completely balanced, too much of either yin or yang will cause a reaction by your body, allowing you to stay balanced. Everything that your body does, when using Chinese food therapy, will be communicating to you how to use your food and balance it out properly.








The ideas of yin and yang are used in the sphere of food and cooking.Yin foods are believed to decrease the body's heat (eg. lower the metabolism) whileYang foods are believed to increase the body's heat (eg. raise the metabolism).So if your body is imbalanced, you can use some foods in order to use the Chinese food therapy correctly. For example, some foods may cause your energy to be lower. You can use roots of foods in order to increase this, which are directly linked to the Yang foods. Ginseng is one popular example that will help to increase circulation and the metabolism. This is one of several examples that can help you to heal and balance naturally.