CookSmart (19th Issue) Page6

Cover Story

She cooks, she eats, she loves rice

Zoie likes to make herself a healthy breakfast before beginning a day's work. For her, breakfast is best with a piece of fruit or a milkshake made with banana and soya milk, served with some toast. Lunch for her always includes udon noodles or rice vermicelli with tomatoes, other vegetables, minced pork, dumplings and eggs.

Zoie is also very fond of rice. She can have two bowls of rice for a meal. She likes to add red rice and brown rice to her favourable Taiwan rice to make it more delicious and increase her fibre intake. Rice also pairs well with Chinese soups; Zoie’s favourable soups are “papaya, black eyed peas and ‘snow-ear’ fungus soup” and “carrot, green turnip, corn and beef shin soup”.

Regular exercise: that’s how to stay in shape

Zoie keeps her body shape by running and practising yoga. She has started practising kung fu. “Kung fu training is tough and also a lot of fun”. Despite busy with working, Zoie would spend time to do stretching exercise or aerobic dance at home so as to maintain adequate level of physical activity.