Treasured Chinese Fruite - Jujube Date

Heart Shape Date & Hetian Jade Jujube Date

The jujube red date is an edible fruit and has high medical value. Jujube is rich in vitamins and contains many kinds of trace elements such as iron, zinc and cerium and so on.

The jujube also has the very high value for medicinal purposes. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that “the jujube is fruit of the spleen”. Date products have the function like diminishing inflammation, clearing blood and promoting blood circulation. It is believed that jujube has the tonic properties over the spleen, nourishing stomach, enriching blood and invigorating mind. The modern Chinese medicine research shows that both the big and small jujube are good for the spleen, but the big date’s merit is to reduce turbid, the small jujube’s merit is to strengthen the constitution, therefore the big date is used in medicine for treatment; The small jujube is not be the components of medicine and used for supporting body.

We carry both small ( seedless Heibei Heart Shaped jujube dates) and large date (XinJian Hetian Jujube Dates). Both types are the premium quality date with very small stone. Heart shaped jujube dates is already seedless. It has tight small body, chewy in texture. Xinjian Hetian jujube is large, soft and sweet with tiny seed. Both of them are delicious. You may use it for soup, rice porridge, meat dish, tea and even prepare it as a delicious no fat sweet snack.

Both dates are raw food, they should be thoroughly washed with tap water and cooked before eaten. We usually steam a bag of date for 20 minutes, and store the cooked jujube date in refrigerators to enjoy as snacks or add to various dishes.

Fast Cooking Low Fat Ramen Noodles With Sauce

Quick Ramen - Steam Pork

Despite the delicious taste of instant noodles, many of us would like to control our calorie intake and limit instant noodles to an occasional treat. Is there any ramen that is healthier, yet still tastes great and is just as easy to make? We searched the Asian markets and found the solution: two great alternatives to instant ramen noodles.

Our first solution is to use Fast Cooking Ramen noodles. The good part is that they are healthy (made also with whole wheat, for added on fibers, you can see the brownish wheat), taste great, easy and quick to make. The only catch is : you still have to cook them, even if it is only for 3 minutes.

Quick Ramen - Steam Pork

The other solution is to eat Instant Rice Noodle, which will be another day’s topic.

Fast cooking noodles are very much like instant ramen noodles, but they have a lower fat content: they are not fried, but pre-steamed.

After searching and tasting many brands, we found several great . One of them stand out above the rest in both its taste and in that it even comes with a ready-to-use sauce packet - just like instant ramen. These are . They are much healthier than traditional instant noodles: the noodle itself is not fried and is fat free. They are Genetic Modified Organism (GMO) Free and there are no preservatives added. The only fat is in the sauce packet: only 2 grams and you don’t even have to use it all! What’s more, there is no hydrogenated oil, and there is no trans fat.

There are 4 blocks (1 serving each) of ramen noodles per bag and there are 4 sauce packets for Chinese Style Stewed Pork with meat and 4 dried seasoned veggies packets.

Quick Ramen - Steam Pork

You can cook the noodles in two styles: Noodles and soup or Pan Fried style (Yaki Soba) Dried Noodle.

Fast Cooking Instruction and Recipe for Ramen Noodle and Soup:
(1) Add 4 bowls of water into a pan and boil it
(2) Add 1 block of noodles into boiling water, cook 2 minutes
(3) Add some vegetables (like Chinese green leaf, bok choy, or fresh spinach) and/or precooked meat, continue to cook for another 1-2 minutes
(4) Take out noodles and place on a plate, add 2/3 of sauce packet and mix into noodle
(5) Add the remaining 1/3 of sauce packet and veggies packet into soup

Now you have 1 plate of noodles and 1 bowl of veggie soup!

In the photo on the right, I used less than 1/3 of the sauce in the packet to meet my own taste. Most people might use 1/2 ~ 2/3 of the package, but I think very few people will use up whole sauce packets.

Fast Cooking for Chinese Style Noodle Soup:
To enjoy a bowl of noodle soup, simply add sauce and dried veggies into a pot with a serving of noodles, and stir well.

To add more variety, add more vegetables, fish cakes, precooked eggs, and top with some strips of seasoned seaweed.

Quick Ramen - Steam Pork

Pan Fried Noodle Style
Take out noodle into a bowl, empty sauce and veggies into the bowl, and mix well.

To make it healthier, add some green vegetables, broccoli, etc. during the last 2 minutes of cooking.

I found that there is actually a lot of sauce, so start with less and adjust the amount to your taste.

What is the final taste? Taste just like your regular Instant Ramen Noodle, but with a peace of mind — it is so much more healthier!

Nutrition Facts

Noodles - Graham flour, Wheat Flour, Salt
Garnish - Cabbage, pea, carrot, corn, green onion, dried Seaweed
Sauce Packet: palm oil, salt, sugar, scallion oil, artificial pork flavor, star anise, pepper, vitamin E.
NET WT.: 4 oz / FOR 1 SERVING
AMOUNT PER SERVING: Calories 354 / Calories from Fat 18

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UFO Japanese Instant YakiSoba Ramen Noodle

UFO Instant Japanese Ramen Noodle bowl is a popular Instant Japanese Noodle. This is a YakiSoba Style ramen noodle, which is very similar to Chinese Chow Mein. They are pan fried style Teriyaki noodles, so they taste better with less liquid added.

UFO - Instant Ramen Noodle

The dried noodles come in fairly large bowls. Besides the vegetable flakes (the flakes are quite large, compared to conventional ones), there are some other flakes, which is what the UFO refers to: If it is pork flavored, the flakes are dried pieces of pork; if it is beef flavored, they would be dried pieces of beef.
UFO therefore refers to the dried meat, Unidentified Flying Objects, or in this case, Unidentified Frying Objects, inside the noodle bowl.

UFO - Instant Ramen Noodle, Inside

It is quite easy to prepare the noodles. Just add boiling water to the bowl and keep the cover sealed for 3-5 minutes, or just until the noodles are soft and can be loosened with a pair of chopsticks (remember two put aside the two packets inside the bowl first!). The longer you steep them in boiling water, the softer the noodles will be.

Loosen the noodles. There were two packets that came inside the bowl: one is seasoning, one is the sauce packet. Starting with just a little, mix both seasoning and sauce into noodle bowl.

I found that those sauces and seasonings are just too much. They can be used to prepare at least two bowls of noodles! For the noodle in the photo below, I only used 1/3 of the sauce packet. They are quite tasty already.

UFO - Instant Ramen Noodle, Cooked

Stir well and enjoy!

Overall, UFO noodles are very tasty. The dried meat part is totally unique; very uncommon in the instant noodle world. The meat is actually quite chewy after soaking in water.

The sauce is quite sweet and tasty. If you like teriyaki flavor, you will like these UFO noodles. Just make sure to start with only a little sauce, and adjust the amount to your taste.

Nutrition Facts

Noodles - Wheat flour, partially hydrogenated palm oil, starch, soy sauce, soy dietry fiber

Seasoning - Worchestershire sauce, glucose, vegetable oil, salt, spice, fruit paste(apple), pork fat, chicken fat, seaweed, ginger, clam extract, soy protein, chicken extract, yeast extract,

Garnish - Dehydrated pork chips and cabbage.

NET WT.: 4.55 oz / FOR 1 SERVING

AMOUNT PER SERVING: Calories 547 / Calories from Fat 200

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