www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

It is often said that you are what you eat? Do you agree? What does it really mean and how did it get started? The notion went that basically to stay healthy you have to eat good food. Brillat-Savarin and Ludwig Andreas Feuebach wrote that "tell me what you eat and I tell you what you are" and "man is what he eats" respectively. The food that one eats has a bearing on your health and state of mind. Some quarters believed that as much as 90% of diseases known to man are caused by cheap foodstuffs. So we have to look at what we eat more carefully. Never get cheap crabs but by itself crabs can kill you if taken in extreme due to cholesterol. Perhaps more expensive prawns are better and still cheaper than the cheapest crabs? I believe abalones were once cheap but the Chinese ate them till the price shot up and never came back. Expensive does not really mean more nutrition always. Anyway, most of the time we are over eating. You can w...

I am not a fan of buffet and I am not talking about Warren. But I love Japanese cuisine and it is not easy to find good Japanese buffet. Last time Shima was probably the best in town. The problem with having a buffet means that after the meal you feel like a python that has just swallowed a goat. I have been doing Japanese food for more than 20 years and continues to be a fan. Some time ago, I shot this pix of both wasabi (horse radish) and green tea ice cream and try to play a trick. At a party recently, some one try to pull a fast one on me in the same way. You can't fool me because I can trade secrets for green tea ice-cream. I'm an exponent. Normally I would not go to a restaurant that just serves buffet but if it is a part of the set it may be better. I also like consistency because consistency spells out the difference between good and great. Where the FA Cup is a one off victory, to win the League you to go through the daily grind. There wa...