World’s Most Expensive Bowl of Pho

Pho becomes permanent menu item offered at $5K at House of An locations – AnQi, Crustacean and Tiato in California, USA.

The world’s most expensive AnQi Pho, created by House of An (restaurateurs of Crustacean, Tiato, AnQi), was auctioned off for $5,800 at the live auction at The Bash Benefactor Dinner last month.

The restaurants are now offering the AnQi $5,000 Pho to their guests. With such a price tag, it is considered the most expensive Pho in the world but it all goes to The Bash Foundation, a charity organized by LA teens that helps benefit the Teen Impact/Dialysis Center of Children’s Hospitals.

A molecular gastronomy technique will be used to make the rice noodles out of a very rare and expensive blue lobster meat. Instead of sirloin or brisket which is typical for pho, AnQi’s $5,000 Pho will be made with the highest grade of Wagyu beef which is A5. Garnishing the soup will be the most coveted truffles in the world known as white alba truffles. In place of the traditional broth will be poach foie gras in a flavored stock. The garnish of bean sprouts and thai basil are grown exclusively in the garden at Tiato.

The AnQi $5,000 Pho is served in blue fluted plain soup and dinner plate by Royal Copenhagen.

Heart-Healthy DASH Diet May Help Teen Girls Stay Slim

An eating plan originally touted to reduce high blood pressure in adults has been found to keep adolescent girls trimmer between the ages of 9 and 19.

Researchers report that girls whose food intake most resembled the Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet had the smallest gains in body mass index (BMI) over 10 years, and the lowest BMIs at the end of the follow-up period.

The DASH diet emphasizes higher consumption of low-fat dairy products; fish, chicken and lean meats; and nuts, fruits, whole grains, vegetables and legumes. Multiple studies have indicated the diet, long promoted by the American Heart Association, leads to significant blood pressure reduction.

“I think these were the results we were hoping to find,” said study author Dr. Jonathan Berz, an assistant professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. “It’s true, on the one hand, that this is common sense. What’s perhaps new is that few studies look at overall eating patterns in relation to weight gain compared to individual foods, and over a long period.”

The study is published in the June issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

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Bread Machine Potato Bread Recipe from My Clippings

Ingredients

4 oz potato
1 cup water
1¾ tbsp butter
1 tbsp sugar
1/2 tbsp salt
300 g bread flour
2½ tsp dried yeast

Method

1. Peel potato. Use either baking or steaming method to cook potato. Mash cooked potato.
2. Add flour, butter, sugar, salt, mashed potato and dried yeast to the container of the bread machine.
3. Use standard bake cycle to bake the bread.

Source: Hong Kong magazine