Fried Rice and its Health Benefits

Luigi's Mixed Rice concept is stir fry fried rice. Rice is a staple food for Filipinos and we modified a lot of recipes involving rice to make it more exciting, presentable and of course improve its taste.

As stated in Wikipedia, Fried Rice is a popular component of Asian cuisine, especially Chinese food. It is made from steamed rice stir-fried in a wok, often with other ingredients such as eggs, vegetables, and meat. It is sometimes served as the penultimate dish in Chinese banquets (just before dessert). As a home-cooked dish, fried rice typically is made with left over ingredients from other dishes, leading to countless variations.

There are many popular varieties of fried rice, each with its own specific list of ingredients. In Asia, the more famous varieties include Yangzhou and Fujian fried rice. Elsewhere, Chinese restaurants catering to non-Chinese clientele have invented their own varieties of fried rice including egg fried rice, Malaysian (spicy) fried rice and the ubiquitous 'special fried rice'.

Eating rice also has several benefits. Rice is a great source of complex carbohydrates which give us the energy we need. According to FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations), rice provides 20 percent of the world's dietary energy supply. Rice contains all the amino acids essential for building and maintaining muscle tissue, and make up antibodies, enzymes, and hormones. These amino acids also help maintain healthy skin, hair, eyesight, and nourish the heart, lungs, tendons and ligaments, brain, nervous system and glands.

White rice is one of the easiest and quickest foods to digest requiring only an hour to completely digest it. As such, rice is an ideal health food for those who are debilitated and weak and require easy assimilation and quick energy. Because of the low fiber content, white rice is very soothing to the digestive system and rice gruels along with buttermilk are recommended for digestive disorders such as diarrhea, dysentery, morning sickness, colitis, and jaundice. (http://www.vegrecipes4u.com)

Rice is a good source of carbohydrates to build up energy or recharge ourselves after a hard day's work. Although we are advised to moderate the consumption of rice most especially during dinner, to avoid unburned calories, it is still best to have a balanced and complete diet regularly.

Midnight El Grande

Luigi's Mixed Rice is now a participant of Midnight El Grande Night Market at Rockwell Business Center, Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City. We started last Thursday, February 16, 2012 and will be a participant for the coming months. Midnight El Grande is open every Thursdays to Saturdays, 6pm to 4am.

Midnight El Grande started last December 2011 but Luigi's was not able to join because of previous engagements booked for that month. Hopefully this year, the event will be successful so Luigi's Mixed Rice can be a permanent food concessionaire of the event.

Midnight El Grande clients usually comes from Medical City, Rockwell Business Center offices such as Aegis People Support and Trend Micro. Organizers of the event are trying tap more food merchants to entice more customers to patronize the night market.

Event organizers are also planning to set up a Sunday Morning Market titled Sunday Lifestyle. Schedule of the Sunday Lifestyle will be announced soon.

Channel V Red Revolution Concert

This coming February 9, Thursday, Channel V will have a rock concert entitled Red Revolution at Metrowalk Parking Area, Meralco Avenue, Pasig City. Tickets are Php 50.00 each and concert will start as early as 4 PM. Gates will be open by 3 PM to accommodate people who want to be early and position themselves near the stage.

Luigi's Mixed Rice, currently a food merchant at Il Mercanti Food Bazaar located at Metrowalk will also serve food as early as 3 PM. Concert viewers can grab their meals early, before the concert starts so they can stay at the concert venue the whole time. Viewers can order bestsellers such as Thai Rice, Mixed Seafood with Aligue and Adobo Rice. They can still order from Luigi's even after the concert. Luigi's will be open until 4 AM the following day.

The concert is organized to raise public awareness, most especially the youth about HIV and AIDS. In between performances of rock bands, an audio visual presentation will be shown by the Red Whistle Group to provide helpful information about the fight against HIV and AIDS.

Concert performers include Sandwich, Pupil, Callalily, Imago, Franco, Chicosci, Brownman Revival, Rivermaya, Stonefree, Slapshock, Razorback, 6Cyclemind and a lot more bands (http://kokakthefroglet.blogspot.com).

Let us support the concert and be a part of a movement to raise public awareness to prevent AIDS here in the Philippines.