Our finicky teenage chef doesn’t like her school canteen’s food. So she preps her own food everyday. This week she made these for her lunch box:
Jumeok-bap or rice ball or Korean style onigiri. It’s cooked rice mixed with boiled kombu, sweet corn kernels, seaweed and soy sauce and rolled into balls. You can use any ingredient that you fancy to mix with the rice.
Salad (pesticide-free) with avocado and cheese.
Mashed green peas and ham with cartoon shaped pasta
Avocado and egg rice rolls
I always tell this girl that if she doesn’t get a highly paid job or a rich husband in future, she will find it extremely hard to live a life with humble and simple food. Blame it on her dad who’s spoilt them with good food all their lives 😑
The human body is composed of an approximate average of 60% water. Aside from helping us to quench thirst, water is crucial for optimal health and is essential for numerous bodily functions. These include waste removal, temperature regulation, and cellular function.
Health experts recommend that we drink around 2 liters of water per day. We need to increase this amount if we’re exercising or losing fluids through sweat on a hot day, to prevent dehydration.   As our body requires so much water a day for optimal health, we should be drinking clean and filtered water that is free from contaminants, bacteria, odour, and heavy metals.  A good water filter will be able to do that. The Thanos water dispenser with a built-in filter (5 filtration steps) made in Korea can remove over 1,000 harmful contaminants from the water before it is dispensed, either cold, hot, or warm.
Below are the types of contaminants commonly found in water and some water filters can filter off these contaminants.
TURBIDITY: A major source of turbidity in drinking water is soil runoff but other sources include rust, sand and sediment.
LEAD: Typically, lead enters the water supply after it leaves the local treatment plant.
Lead plumbing is common in homes built before 1986 and can contribute to the contamination of water in a home.
SEDIMENT: Water passing through a series of pipes to reach your home may contain sediment.
CRYPTOSPORIDIUM AND GIARDIA: Cryptosporidium is a single-celled protozoan parasite commonly found in lakes and rivers, especially when the water is contaminated with sewage and animal waste.
CHLORINE TASTE AND ODOUR: Chlorine taste and odour is caused by compounds containing chlorine added to local water supplies.
Living in Malaysia, you will often notice that at certain times of the day the water that comes out from the tap is brown. You will need to let the water run for several seconds to several minutes before using it. Sometimes the color of our clothes turns brownish caused by the turbidity of the water. Â Â
A good water filtration system is a priority in our family. Previously when we stayed in a double-storey house, we had a huge outdoor water filter unit. In our dry kitchen, we have an electric water filter system and in the wet kitchen, we have a simple water filter attached to the tap faucet. Â Now that we stay in a condo, we only have a water filter in our dry kitchen. Â There are several outdoor water filter units at the compound of our condo.
Some people feel that a water filter is not a necessity as the water in Malaysia has been treated before they are piped into our homes. It is up to individual preference but I personally feel that it is safer to drink filtered water as filtered water looks cleaner and has a neutral taste. Everyone in our family drinks a lot of water every day and I want only clean filtered water for us. What’s on my wish list now is a good water dispenser with a built-in water filter as our RM2k+ Panasonic water filter finally conked out after 13 years with us.
So it’s time for me to shop around for the best water dispenser in Malaysia! I don’t know if it’s just me or everyone, but I find that water that comes out from water dispensers, especially cold water tastes so good!
