Thursday, December 13, 2007

Roti Canai & Nasi Lemak food Info

If you are living in Malaysia or other neighboring countries, you would have recognize these two famous local cuisine called Roti Canai and Nasi Lemak. These two types of food is usually consume during breakfast time although sometimes people do had it for lunch, dinner or as a snack. It is a very appetizing cuisine where you could find it almost anywhere in Malaysia. The price is very cheap to quite expensive depending on where you bought it from and it is a very popular food among the rich and poor alike. No matter how famous and delighted these two cuisines are, we could not run away from the fact that it poses great danger to our health if consumed too often.

Do you know that a piece of Roti Canai is equivalent to 5 km of jogging? This means that if you have jogged for 5 km and eat a Roti Canai after that, it is as if we did not jogged at all. Moreover, some people prefer having two pieces instead of one because the potion is so small. There is so much oil needed in making just a piece of Roti Canai. Considering where and who is making the Roti Canai, the hygiene aspect of it also need to be taken into consideration. It was calculated, that if you started work at the age of 20 and started eating Roti Canai for breakfast everyday, you will probably not going to live until the age of 55.

Nasi Lemak contains lots of coconut milk, hence it is also a high cholesterol food. Coconut milks were added into cooking the rice so that it has a very nice fragrance to it and that is what makes this dish famous. The rice by itself is good to be eaten just like that but there is usually a few serving of side dishes. And the side dishes such as sambal, fried anchovies, fried eggs, curry chicken, rending, and etc. are also food with high content of fat and cholesterol. However delicious and appetizing this food is, we cannot ignore the fact that it endangers our health.

As we grow older, our body system might not be function in the most optimum level as it used to be. So we should be kind and gentle to our body. The least the we could do is to be moderate in everything we do and watch out on our food intake. Eat healthy food. There is a saying “We might not know how important or valuable our health is until we looses it”. Some things spoilt cannot be reparable...

2 comments:

Lemonjude said...

Although is sounds like not so health, but eating and balance up with fruits and more veges should be fine...

More over these 2 food is the most easiest to get at anytime.

Amidrin said...

jude - yes, you are right. We should always balance up with fruits and vegies. Just don't eat those unhealthy food too much and too often ya!