Forest Herbs and Plants Of Hutan Simpan Ayer Hitam, Puchong (SISFEC)

Hello everyone! Today I want to share to all of you about our latest trip and it is really awesome!
Last week on 17th October, we have enjoyed our trip to Hutan Simpan Ayer Hitam, Puchong.  It is a pleasure to our beloved lecturer, Dr Shahrim that always give his students an opportunity to see the beautiful of the world that other students can feel.

Shine bright like a diamond~

Our class @SISFEC! #sing

So, during in there, we have an activity which is Jungle Trekking that was guided by SISFEC's staff and we have been introduced to a several kind of forest herbs by him that can be use either in cooking or as a medicine and we are really enjoy it.  Here is the lists of the forest herbs that we have known there :

1. Pucuk Putat

 
Function : It been used as one type of Ulam in Malay traditional menu.  It is also to kill the toxin that caused by "getah hitam" that have in several trees in the jungle.  

2. Serai Kayu

 Function : Act as the medicine for diabetes, diarhea and high blood pressure.  It also can be as Ulam that served with Nasi Kerabu and Laksam.  

3. Daun Getah / Buah Getah

Function : Buah getah - Act as the cover of Tapai that was fermented for a several period of time.  

Buah getah - Can be use for making a "Kuih Bingka"

4. Rotan

Function : Can be use in hand craft making like chair, table and many more.

5. Senduduk Bulu / Senduduk Putih

Function : It can be use as the medicine to stop the bleeding.  

6. Pecah Kelambu(female)

Function : It can be use to overhaul/service your body after a long use.  Usually, it is a traditional herbs that have been used by the old people before they get married.

7. Pucuk andung / Delik

Function : It can be use as Ulam.

8. Janggut Adam

Function : It can be use as the medicine to relieve the swelling.

9. Pokok Bayas

Function : Umbut Pokok Bayas can be use to make a kerabu or in other cooking recipe.  The stalk of this tree have been used as the poles of the jetty in the offshore because it really hard to be frostbite.

10. Pakis Hutan 

Function : Pakis hutan is one material that been used in making of Bubur Sarawak.  

11. Kaduk Hutan

Function : It can be use in cooking as an Ulam.

It also can be use as medicine to treat a constipation, teeth pain, and malarian fever. 

Other activity :

Jeram Kelawar

Rilex

SISFEC

Tired And sleepy

So, thats all that we have learned at Hutan Simpan Ayer Hitam and we have enjoyed all the moment to take this opportunity to learned a little thing that we must know as our knowledge.  Thank you! :)

Brooklyn Restaurant Eat Promotes Silence During Dining

Quiet, please. Your dinner will now be served.
That's the message being sent to customers at a New York City restaurant that prohibits any talking during an occasionally put-on $40 prix fixe, four-course meal.
Nicholas Nauman, head chef at Eat in Brooklyn's trendy Greenpoint neighborhood, said he was inspired to pitch the tight-lipped consumption sessions after spending time in India, where Buddhist monks take their breakfast without exchanging words.
"It's just an opportunity to enjoy food in a way you might not have otherwise," said the chef, noting that the sounds of forks on dishes and cooks in the kitchen provide some background noise to the experience. "There's such a strong energy in the room."
The silent-dining experience, experts said, seems to fit with other attention-getting shticks that many restaurant owners and chefs often resort to in the notoriously competitive restaurant business.
At Moto, in Chicago, diners can eat the menu. In Paris, London, Barcelona and Moscow, restaurant-goers at Dans le Noir? — French for "In the Dark?" — are served in the pitch-dark. And pop-up restaurants — where one chef takes over another's restaurant for the night — have long been the rage.
"As a mother of two 15-year-old boys it is kind of a fantasy to go do that," Tanya Steel, editor-in-chief of Epicurious.com, said of the silent-dining experience at Eat. "But as someone who pays money to go out, I would feel like I'm in some kind of silent film; it would be incredibly difficult."
At a recent evening at Eat, restaurant-goers didn't seem to mind the silent treatment as they noshed on salads and sipped their soups.
One polite customer walked out the door to sneeze in order to avoid breaking the silence. Another could barely hold back a strong case of the giggles. And one couple found ways to communicate with facial expressions, instead of words.
"It's kind of like a meditation," Eat owner Jordon Colon said. "The silence speaks for itself."