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Getting Veg Food In Bangkok or Thailand

The fact that most Thais are non-vegetarians does mean that, finding vegetarian food in Thailand might take a bit of effort. Veg food in Thailand’s large cities like Bangkok, Pattaya or Chaingmai is no problem. But if you plan to travel outside the metrolpolis and into the country side, a bit of preparation is advised. Staying in a good hotel could make things easier, the hotel is more likely to understand what you mean by vegetarian food and prepare it for you. But when you eat outside things might be a bit different. Roadside stalls are a favorite place to eat for local Thais but, expecting strictly vegetarian food in such stalls is not very practical. The vendors who sell food by the footpaths and roadside will most likely not understand what you mean by vegetarian food.

One good thing about the country that is making it easier to get vegetarian food in Thailand is the department store and mall craze. You will find department stores Central, Robinson, The Mall, Makro, Tesco Lotus etc in all most every province of Thailand. It is not necessary that these malls have fancy restaurants serving Thai vegetarian food but you can at least get yourself some bread, coffee, cheese or jam. Pizza outlets located in these malls normally do have a menu that includes vegetarian pizzas, surely not the vegetarian food that many visitors would want to eat but - it does help a hungry stomach.

Language might be a major problem when you want to explain your requirements for vegetarian food in Thailand. Once again, the degree of the problem would depend on where you are located. There are two confusing words the Thais often use when talking about vegetarian food, one is ‘chey’ which is strict vegetarian and the other is ‘monks-sa-veerat’ which is a kind of pseudo-vegetarian. You will need to make sure that you are clearly understood when asking for vegetarian food.

If you are a visitor to Thailand or wish to visit the country and require specific vegetarian food, we have a report published for you at http://www.leisure.food-recipe-cooking.com/vegetarian-food-thailand-frc-vg-290412.htm and if you plan to cook your own Thai vegetarian food, some inspiration can be found in this report  http://www.thaifood.food-recipe-cooking.com/thai-vegetarian-food-dishes-frc-vg-01.htm We do hope that you find them useful and wish you a happy and pleasant stay in this wonderful country.

Dubai Changes Gear

Kaisilver took a look at the new Dubai, the changes are coming rapidly the focus is fixed. Realising that the oil reserves will not last forever, Dubai authorities are working for a change. Aimed at developing new and multiple revenue streams, the country has changed gears. More importance is given to education, local businesses are being encouraged and medical facilities improved.

Dubai wishes to place itself as an international hub for business, tourism and shopping. One look at the stupendous New Years Eve celebrations in Dubai would give a clear indication of this change. Posh sky scrapers lit up with some amazing firework formations. There was celebration everywhere, tourist arrivals were high - most of the visitors keen to do some highend shopping.

While Kai Silver custom jewelry is shipped all over the world including Dubai, we do not have a physical presence in the nation. The trip was more to study how a nation prepares itself for inevitatble change. You either change with the times or stay still and keep lamenting about the good days gone by. More pictures and information on this topic can be seen at http://www.leisure.food-recipe-cooking.com/dubai-development-modernisation-fcr-01.htm

Thai Satay, Delicious Variations Possible

Thai satay is one Thai food dish that has gained immense popularity in Thailand and all over the world. When you talk about Thai satay sticks or satay skewers, the dish can be made with some options for the meat. The above image shows Thai pork satay, but the same satay recipe can be used to make Thai meat satay with beef, pork or chicken. Kaisilver has compiled the satay recipe in an easy to understand form with clear step by instructions. When you give a first glance at the list of ingredients to make Thai satay, the whole task of cooking satay seems to be a complicated one but, stay cool and follow the easy instructions. The results will be thrilling and delicious.

When you talk about eating satay, another side dish that is almost always eaten with Thai satay comes to mind. This is the satay sauce or satay peanut sauce. When making your own Thai satay, it is a good idea to put some effort to make your own Thai satay sauce too, our easy recipe for satay sauce will ensure that this is done easily.

Coming back to the Thai satay recipe, there is one step that is going to take some time to complete. This is the stage when you need to mariante (soak) the meat strips in the marinade solution. Fortunately, not much of your time is required in doing this. All you need to do is to quickly make the marinade, soak the strips and leave the mixture aside for around 30 minutes. We ofcourse show you how to make the marinate for the Thai satay dish too. Keeping the time consumed for the soaking in mind, we would suggest that you start making the Thai satay about an hour before you actually want to serve the completed Thai satay skewers with the satay sauce.

Check out recipe for the Thai satay Thai food dish at http://www.thaifood.food-recipe-cooking.com/thai-satay-recipe-frc-nv-01.htm we have also provided the link to make the Thai peanut satay sauce on the same web page.

Satay Peanut Sauce Recipe

Satay sauce is a very popular Thai dish, we prefer to call it a side dish as it is eaten along with Thai satay.  The above image shows a piece of Thai satay on a stick being dipped into a bowl of delicious Thai satay sauce. For those of you who like your food milder, or are not used to the heat and fire of Thai food - there are simple ways to moderate the heat in your satay peanut sauce.

It is quite interesting to see that the ingredients to make satay sauce, do not include chillies. Red curry paste a very popular ingredient used in Thai food is added to give spice and ‘hotness’ to the Thai satay sauce. You might have guessed now, that the porportion of the red curry paste can be adjusted to suit your taste preference. You are also lucky because, peanuts are also used in the satay sauce recipe. By increasing the porpotion of roasted peanuts in the sauce, you could reduce the heat level of the dish.

Most of the ingredients used to make thai satay sauce are common and easily available. The satay sauce recipe itself is easy and simple, not much of cooking and not much of fussing. If you had to compare the sheer relish and joy of eating your very own satay peanut sauce, with the effort needed to actually make it - you will find that very little effort is actually required. You can get to the Kaisilver satay sauce recipe at http://www.thaifood.food-recipe-cooking.com/satay-sauce-recipe-frc-nv-01.htm and if you cannot find ready red curry paste in an Asian store, we provide you with information to make that too.

Excercise Today, Excercise Is For Everyone

There is really no one who will not derive the benefits from excercising. There are various forms of excercise, and there is a suitable excercise for every individual age and condition. For example, a person confined to a weelchair, can also perform some very effective excercises. You need not spend a lot of many excercising but, if you can afford it - look for the best option and forma  regular excercise routine.

Todays passive lifestyles have made excercise all the more necessary. With traffic jams and congestions, it might not be possible to park your car a few blocks before your office building and then walk down to the office. So more deliberate excercise programs need to be developed to suit your convenience, age and general body condition. If you have never excercised before and plan to begin now, consult your doctor and work together on a plan that can be gradually developed and increased with time.

Some ailments like high cholestrol, diabetes and even high blood pressure benefit immensely from a regular and moderate excercise routine. Your doctor will recommend the excercise in most cases but if he has not already done so, do discuss a suitable excercise plan for yourself. Medical conditions like those mentione here, might require lifelong medication but excercise would if combined with medication will prove more beneficial.

Kaisilver has put together some very useful excercise related articles for you. Review the content and then talk to your doctor, it is good to have a regular excercise routine all through your life. But if you have not yet made a start, do so NOW. Check out the excercise and health articles at http://www.food-recipe-cooking.com/excercise-articles-th-frc-01.htm

Crystal Healers Believe That Cleansing Crystals Makes Them More Effective

Crystal Cleansing, What Is Crystal Cleansing.

Before we move into this report on cleansing crystals, we would like to make a very important statement here. While Kaisilver can get you any gemstone or crystal that is found on our planet, we do not claim any special powers for the crystals or gems that we or anyone sell. After receiving dozens of queries regarding cleansing of crystals, Kaisilver experts decided to compile a researched report on this topic. Crystal healers claim that some sort of initiation or tuning for crystals is required before using them for crystal therapy or crystal cleaning. The term used for this is cleansing, and our report provides an insight into crystal cleansing.

Cleansing with reference to crystals and crystal theraphy is not about merely cleaning the dust and dirt that might be stuck to a crystal. While merely cleaning a crystal could be seen as a physical activity, the term crystal cleansing implies something more solemn, something that is spiritual rather than physical. Kaisilver research has found that, most crystal therapy experts recommend crystal cleansing for new and existing crystals. We need to clarify the terms new and old crystals - we will do that right now.

When you have just brought a crystal into your life, we refer to it as a new crystal. The crystal might have purchased from a shop, gifted to you by a friend,  or even dug up from the earth by you. Infact it is very possible that someone who is already practising crystal meditation or therapy with that particular crystal, gifted or sold it to you. With reference to our subject ALL these crystals would be called ‘new’. The fact that they might have already been cleansed and used by someone else before there were sold to you, means nothing. A crystal that has newly entered your life needs to be cleansed.

With the above broad classification of new crystals, you might be wondering what the term old crystals would include. This is really quite simple, any crystal that is already with you and is currently being used for crystal healing, crystal theraphy or crystal meditation will be regarded as an old crystal. In all probability, you would have cleansed the crystal before you started working with it.

One thing that needs to be essentially understood is that, both new and old crystals need to be cleansed. When it comes to new crystals that have just come into your posession, the cleansing process is a bit more involved and takes a longer time to complete.  For crystal that have already been used for your meditation or therapy (by you) a brief rejuvenating re-cleansing process is recommended. These processes are generally of a shorter duration as compared to cleansing crystlals for the first time.

We need to address the issue about the need for crystal cleansing. Why should you cleanse your crystals, what are the benefits of crystal cleansing. Crystal therapists believe that, crystals can acquire and transmit energies. A crystal that is packed with positive energy, can transfer those energies to a person pracitising crystal meditation or crystal therapy. A crystal is capable of absorbing both, positive and negative energies. For example, if you are experiencing negative energies related to depression, restlessness etc - it is claimed that crystals when used could suck those negative energies out of your mind and body. The cleansing of crystals neutralizes the stone, it gets washed of any negative energies that might exist within. It gets tuned to pick your energy and serve your purpose. In the case of old gems that have been used over a period of time, re-cleansing will do a similar thing and take away any negative energy that might have been acquired by the crystal.

You might now be interested in knowing how to cleanse a crystal. There are a few ways in which crystals can be cleansed, some methods might not be very suitable for specific crystals. For example, you would ideally not soak a turquoise stone in water for too long. This is because turquoise can get damaged if left in water for long. Some crystal therapists, recommend sunshine bathing to cleanse crystals. You need to make sure that the crystals that you plan to cleanse in this way will not be damaged by the heat and light of the sun. Kaisilver has compiled a more comprehensive report on crystal cleansing, you can read the information at http://www.international.food-recipe-cooking.com/cleansing-crystals-crystal-healing-frc-01.htm You are always welcome to write to our experts at sales@kaisilver.com with any queries or doubts that you might have.

Colored Diamonds Natural and Treated

The days of white or colorless diamonds are not numbered, but the increased availability and affordability of colored diamonds is making buyers happy. Well known for their rarity and exhorbitant prices, colored diamonds were once meant exclusively for the rich and famous. Those were the days when the posh jewelry houses virtually said that, …. you could not afford a color diamond ring if you had to ask about the price !

Back to the present and things look much better. Jewelers offer color diamond rings and other color diamond jewelry at prices that will suit many budgets. So why did this change come about? After all, the volume of color diamonds mined each year is a tiny fraction of, the total diamond output from the mines. And the fact that demand exceeds supply for natural color diamonds is no secret. This is the perfect excuse for diamond jewelers to spike up prices.

The important thing that most color diamond jewelry buyers do not know is that, most of the colored diamonds sold today have been treated to change color. Yes, this is true but rarely known - the lack of information ofcourse works to the advantage of the diamond jewelry sellers. Diamond manufacturing houses have learnt how to take white diamonds with flaws and even clarity and turn them to gorgeous yellow diamonds, brown diamonds, orange diamonds, green diamonds, pink diamonds and even pink diamonds. Over 95% of the diamonds mined are of the white (colorless) variety, being able to process these to color diamonds, adds beauty and this pleases the buyer. At the same time, enhanced colors also enhance the value of the stones - this more than pleases the seller.

So what is wrong in selling treated color diamonds. Nothing really AS LONG AS the buyer is informed of the fact that he is getting enhanced treated color diamonds. AND ofcourse, as long as the buyer is being charged for enhanced colored diamonds and not color diamonds with a natural color. Just be careful with the jargon, both natural color and color enhanced diamonds are ‘natural’ in the sense that, they both originate from natural diamonds mined from the earth. However diamonds with natural color are rarer and more expensive as compared to natural diamonds that have been imparted a different color by way of various treatments.

You can read more about treated and natural color diamonds at http://www.jewelry.kaijewels.com/colored-diamonds-natural-or-treated-kj-info-01.htm and email our support experts at sales@kaisilver.com if you need any more information or have any more doubts. Once you have all the information to help you make the right buying decision - make the purchase from any jeweler that you feel comfortable with.

Avacados Can Help Your Heart

The Kaisilver team recently came across a surprising error in a reputed cooking and slimming magazine. The topic was about avocados and the health benefits of an avocado. The writer kept ranting about how avocados with their cholestrol content can be harmful if eaten. Even a little research would have avoided such wrong and careless statements from getting published. Kaisilver is not an expert in health and food, we remain the world’s leading online source for highend custom made jewelry. Once in a while, our team takes time of from their busy gems and jewelry activities and spends time reading or studying some useful and interesting content. In this brief report we talk about the benefits of eating avocados.

All of us are aware and afraid of the dangers of high cholestrol. What many people are not aware is that, medical experts classify two types of cholestrol - good cholestrol (HDL) and bad cholestrol (LDL). Do not worry about the exact meaning of the two, your doctor will take care of that. However all that you need to know that not all cholestrol is bad. Your body needs some amount of HDL (good cholestrol). Avocados do contain cholestrol but, fortunately not the bad one. So this means that the health benefits of avocados as a source of good cholestrol is indeed valuable. Since cholestrol or the lack of it, reflects on the health and condition of your heart, you can rest assured that the cholestrol present in avocados is needed by your body.

Good cholestrol is not the only nutritional benefit provided by an avocado, there is still more good news. Sodium is something that can work to negatively affect your heart condition. On the other hand potassium actually helps the body, and the health benefits of avocados is one again impressive here. Avocados do not contain sodium but, contain potassium.

Our intention of writing this brief report on avocados is not to criticize the magazine that published the wrong information. However we are genuinely concerned that such information can mislead people and therefore prevent the general public from getting the genuine benefits of consuming a specific type of food. Kaisilver has compiled a more comprehensive report on avocados and this can be read at http://www.health.food-recipe-cooking.com/avocado-benefits-health-heart-frc-01.htm We would once again like to state that we have no business interest in the growing or marketing of avocados or any other edible product. Do email our team at sales@kaisilver.com if you have any suggestions or comments to make.

Bio Products In Asia, Focus On Thailand

Bio products are the trend today, healthy living starts with healthy food and global interest in bio based products has shown sharp rise. For some Asian countries like Thailand, natural resources to support the production of bio based products abound. The hurdle for countries like Thailand to fully implement bio based product development, packaging and marketing are slowly but surely being resolved. A visit to the recently held Bio Product Fair in Bangkok, Thailand had some very pleasant surprises.

While agri produce like brown unpolished rice, soya bean extract and even non edible bio products is nothing new in Thailand - the development in processing, packaging and branding of complete bio products is truly impressive. A good example would be brown rice which is also called unpolished rice. This agri product was developed into various products, well beyond the conventional cooking and boiling. Brown rice chips that can be eaten as snacks were attractively presented. Low on fat and sugar, these brown rice chips are tasty and nutritous. The Bio Product Show in Bangkok also had brown rice porridge packs, quick to cook and available in natural ripe banana flavor, this is another innovative way to get the benefits of the high fibre and mineral content in brown rice.

Not all the bio based products at the Thailand fair were meant to be eaten! Bio based single use food containers and plates were also on display. The bio degradable material used to produce these plates and packs could finally replace the styro foam food packs that abound in Bangkok and other parts of Thailand. Another manufacturer took the bio product meaning to new heights. Small boxes and boards of material developed from dried stalks of rice plants combined with bio based glues. There is no shortage of dried rice stalk in Thailand a country that is one of the leading global players in rice cultivation.

If you wish to see more details from the Bio Product Show, check out this Kaisilver report at http://www.leisure.food-recipe-cooking.com/thailand-bio-products-fcr-01.htm Kaisilver the world’s leading online custom made jewellery provider is not connected with the bio industry or any of the products shown in this report. The information is compiled by the Kaisilver team for general information purposes. You can send your comments and suggestions to sales@kaisilver.com

Add Flavor To Thai Food, Spicy Chilli Oil

Naam Phrik

Thai spicy chilli oil is one of the very popular ingredients used in Thai food dishes. If you have ever tasted and enjoyed Thai seafood, it is very likely that Naam Phrik or Spicey Chilli Oil was used to add flavor to the dish. If you are interested in cooking Thai food as a hobby or as a profession, it is necessary to get to know the main ingredients used in Thai food. It is quite common for enthusiastic cooks to try their hand at cooking Thai food and not being happy with the flavor that the dish gets. While it does take time, talent and patience to become an expert at cooking Thai food, we have found that many cooks forget the main ingredient used to give the basic flavor to the specific dish being cooked. While Kai Silver is not involved in the food or hotel business, we do let our staff take time out from our main Custom Jewelry Operations and travel around.

We have put up the complete recipe for Naam Phrik with easy steps and explanations. However if you want to get straight to making your Thai food dish, without getting into the intricacies of making your own spicy chili oil, you can most probably buy a can or bottle of readymade Naam Phrik from an Asian grocery store. If you are interested to know the meaning of Naam Phrik, here it is. The Naam translates to water, the word Phrik means chillies. Ofcourse the water in this case is referred to as the liquid (which is oil) used as an ingredient in making Thai chilli oil.

You can access the recipe for this Thai food ingredient below but, we would like to add a small note here. If you wish to make the very famous Thai Spicy Prawn Soup also called, Tom Yaam Kung, you will need a similar ingredient to Naam Phrik - however there is a subtle difference in the ingredients used to make the Naam Phrik Tom Yam. The Spicey Prawn Soup uses the chilli oil recipe without much oil.

Check out the Thai Spicy Chilli Oil Recipe here  http://www.thaifood.food-recipe-cooking.com/spicy-chili-oil-nam-phrik-phow-th-nv.htm We do hope that you enjoy cooking and eating your Thai food.

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