#probably because the restaurant added enough MSG

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egg fried rices!!

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acquainted | eleven

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summary: the biggest goal of a grad student is to get through school in one piece - no petty drama involved, no sweating over the little things. however, that plan almost always never follows through. sometimes, you can’t help but fall into the most unthinkable, unexpected traps and learn the hard way. like, exhibit a: being unable to resist your engaged, substitute teacher, kim seokjin.

pairing: jungkook x reader x engaged!teacher!seokjin

genre: grad school au, student life au | fluff, angst, smut

words: 3.0k

warnings: cussing, mature language, soft sex with seokjinnie

tags: @laurynne5 @yiyi4657 @miinoongi @teamtardis-notdead @bluesharksandfish@photographic-girl @yonkoghan @moonchild1​ @thebeebi​ (pls msg me if you would like to be added to the taglist!)

Los Angeles.

You haven't been to Los Angeles in years, probably the last time being a family trip to Disneyland when you were younger. It felt surreal being here, but there was no turning back. You were here and you were going to be spending the weekend with Jin. You had simply told Jungkook, Jimin and Taehyung you were going to visit home to be with your family, Ryujin obviously already knowing what the truth was. She was worried, and begged for you to be careful first and foremost. But, she knew she couldn't stop you. After all, this was your decision and your decision only. If there were any repercussions, that was all for you to deal with.

LAX was crowded as hell, your Uber taking almost 30 minutes to leave the airport itself. Jin had insisted on picking you up, but you felt bad that he would have to make the journey being that he already paid for your flight over. It was nearing 8pm, and the ride was still going to take close to an hour since Jin's hotel was in Anaheim. You almost fall asleep on the way over, exhaustion from work and classes hitting you like a truck. You were just ready to get in bed and cuddle.

You finally arrive after what seems like forever, immediately making your way up to the room number he sent you. After knocking a few times, he swings the door open, revealing him in a simple white tee and black sweats. His hair wasn't gelled and messily fell to its sides, strands almost poking his eyes.

"Hey." You smile at him, but he says nothing and instead engulfs you in a tight hug.

"Finally." He speaks up, his hands gently rubbing your back. When he pulls away, he cups your face and places a soft kiss on your lips.

"I know, t'was a long journey over from the airport."

"Sorry, love." You set your duffle aside against the wall, observing Jin's huge suite. There was a small kitchenette against the wall after the initial entry walkway. A small couch sat in the middle, facing towards the bed, with a coffee table in front and a love seat to the side. The bed itself was about queen sized and faced the wall that was entirely windows, if not draped with the curtains. In front of the bed was a drawer with a tv and a desk next to it. The view straight ahead was Disneyland, where you were sure you'd catch the fireworks from where you were at. Off to the side were double doors that led to the bathroom.

"Jeez, do CFOs always get this kind of treatment?" He chuckled as he plopped onto the bed, one heel planted on the bed with the other leg falling off the edge.

"Mm, maybe?"

"Damn, sign me up." You say as you hang your jacket in the closet next to his.

"Hungry?"

"Starving."

"I ordered you some food." He nodded towards the desk.

"Thank you." You give him a toothless smile before unzipping your duffle to get yourself washed up in the bathroom first. You sat your toiletries against the counter and threw on an oversized shirt and unmatching fuzzy socks, not really giving a damn how you looked right now. It wasn't too cold in the room, and honestly, you were just more worried about getting into something comfy after the journey you've had. You fixed your hair as you were exiting the bathroom, Jin smiling as he catches sight of you walking over to your food. "Yes?" You ask, your eyebrow cocked up.

"You're cute."

"What's wrong with it?" You look at yourself up and down, noticing he's eyeing your socks.

"Nothing." He shakes his head. "Eat your food so you can come over here and join me." You open the lid to the room service platter, seeing steak, mashed potatoes and veggies, along with a side of cheesecake for dessert. Shit, if this is the treatment you were going to get, you couldn't be mad at all. You quietly cut your steak and begin to eat, rolling your chair slightly away from the desk to watch the movie Jin has on. Inception. It was one of your favorite movies, and a movie you definitely don't get tired of watching even after the numerous times you've done so. You're so invested in it that you don't even realize you had cleared out your entire plate without saying a word. He too was super invested that you thought it was cute how his bug eyes kept focus on the tv the entire time.

"Fuck, that was so good." You say before sipping on your water. "Thank you." He smiles toothlessly before patting the space in between his legs.

"Do you want the A/C off?"

"It's fine." You climb onto the bed and in between his legs. He sits up against the headboard, one leg still propped up while the other drooped over the edge. He begins to massage your shoulders, causing you to shut your eyes at how relaxed you're starting to feel.

"Good?" He asks, as you tilt your head forward and nod.

"Mhm." He chuckles, beginning to place gentle kisses on the nape of your neck. You were getting into the massage, slightly feeling yourself getting turned on by his touch, until the fireworks began to pop off in your view. You opened your eyes and ran straight to the window, Jin chuckling behind you. "Oh shit! Oh my god! It's so pretty!" You stand in front of the window, watching the fireworks show, instantly missing Disneyland and its glory. Jin wraps his arms around your neck, planting a kiss on the side of your head as you rest your hands on his arms.

"What do you wanna do tomorrow?"

"That depends on when you're free, right?" You chuckle, keeping your eyes on the show.

"I'm free by 3:30. I'll come back here though, then we can get going to wherever you'd like."

"Anywhere?" You cocked your head to the side to look at him as he nods.

"Just say the word and we'll go. Except, there is one restaurant I wanna bring you to for dinner. That's the only exception." You nod.

"Fair enough."

Sooner or later, the fireworks are done for the night and Seokjin is on top of you, planting kisses along your neck and jawline as your hands grip onto his hair. For some reason, tonight feels a little different than the usual fuck session you have with Jin. He has never treated you wrong or made you feel like he was just using you, but tonight his emotions were at an all-time high and you felt it in the way that he kissed you, hugged you, touched you. His touch was gentle and soft, and this was escalating into something sweeter than the usual, rough, filthy sex you both end up having. He's removing your clothing, marveling at your already exposed breasts underneath the shirt. He lets out a breathy moan before he removes his shirt and sweats, bearing some of his weight as he lowers his body onto you once more. The kisses are affectionate and slow. Your tongue is dancing with his, making you moan into the kiss the more it deepens. He removes his hardened member from the barriers of his boxers, pumping it a few times before he taps it against your wet pussy. You hiss while he watches you plead with your eyes, begging for him to enter without saying a word. He slowly inserts his tip, letting out a small moan as he feels his cock being enveloped by your walls, coating him nicely and warmly. Your heels are planted onto the bed as he rolls his hips into yours, deeply thrusting slowly into your core. His hand is gripping your thigh every time he rolls into you, his other hand gripping the top of the pillow below your head. Your hips begin to mimic his motions, causing you to lightly arch your back at how good it feels to have him slowly bury himself in you like this. You moan against his mouth, his eyes never leaving yours as he watches your facial expressions change.

"Gonna cum." You spit out as your hips are continuing to work into his. You grip onto his chin, bringing his lips down onto yours as your aggressively kiss him and push your tongue into his mouth. He moans as he slightly picks up the pace, causing you to break the kiss. "Ohhhh, shit. Jin." You bite onto your bottom lip, feeling your high escalating until it pushes you over the edge. "Ohhhhhhhgod, fuck." You groan, gripping onto the sheets as your back arches and your body slightly trembles.

"Shit." He says, your reaction enough to send him over. You watch as he shuts his eyes as he buries his head in the crook of your neck, thrusts hard and slow to let him ride out the rest of the high. He stays there for a minute, allowing you to massage your hands into his hair and plant kisses onto his cheek. He finally rolls over, pulling the sheets over your bodies while you both are trying to regulate your breathing. He doesn't say anything as he pulls you onto his chest, caressing your arm as you get comfortable listening to his heartbeat against your ear. "Y/N."

"Hm?"

"I'm happy you're here with me."

"Me too." You say softly, his hands gently working their way in your hair.

Before Jin left early this morning, you remember him placing a kiss on your temple before whispering that he'd be back soon. You had slept in for a little longer, getting up close to lunch to see Jin's note on the night stand.

Order what you want, charge it to the room.

You smirk to yourself, knowing damn well you still wouldn't order a ton because you'd feel guilty. However, it's no lie that having the option to was kind of nice. You get washed up and throw on some baggy sweats and a crop tank while waiting for your breakfast platter and fruits to arrive to the room. You still had a couple of hours before Jin would be back, so after eating, you take the shuttle over to Downtown Disney to explore a little bit and get some air. Obviously, the souvenirs were quick to catch your attention, with the added bonus of Starbucks being right next door to the World of Disney shop. You feel yourself getting into your feelings because how cute would it be to spend time with Jin at Disneyland?

Then you remember that you aren't a couple.

You still don't really know what this is. Somehow, you're hoping that's what he'll help resolve later tonight at dinner. It's either you go or Grace goes, right?

After spending money on souvenirs for yourself and your apartment, you happily take the shuttle back with a bag of beignets in your hand. Jin would be back in the next hour, so you figured you could start getting yourself ready for the rest of the day. You throw on a brown ribbed bodycon dress with black knee high boots and a leather jacket. It was a simple outfit, but it made enough of a statement that you hoped Jin liked the way you dressed.

And he does. He truly does. It's probably one of the things he really likes about you - the fact that you dress up even if it's for an ice cream run. You still looked cute and you put in the effort. He thought it was sexy and attractive as hell. He walked into the room seeing you dressed, fixing the remaining touches to your hair. You spotted him through the bathroom mirror standing there, looking at you with so much admiration. He began to loosen his tie as he walked towards you, wrapping his arms around your waist before planting a kiss on your head.

"You look beautiful." He says softly, making you smile into the kiss he planted on your cheek. "Let me change, then we can head out, okay?"

"Sounds good." You respond as you make your way out into the room. You made sure to text Ryujin back, letting her know the weekend had been going well so far and that she shouldn't worry too much. It didn't take long for Seokjin to get himself into different clothes, him donning a sweater, slacks and boots. It wasn't long before you were hopping into his rental coming out of the valet and driving towards Santa Monica. He had fulfilled your wish of walking around, shopping and spending time at the pier. You were able to catch Jin's goofy side along with his infamous dad jokes, especially playing the pier games just to win you a small prize. You were also able to hear his voice and how he too liked to sing. He had a very strong voice, and differed from Jungkook's, however, they both sounded completely angelic and both were soothing to listen to. You were seeing a completely different side of Seokjin - not the one in class as your professor, not the one you'd see strictly in bed, but an entirely different side of Seokjin that seemed comfortably himself.

For dinner, you two were seated in a rather fancy, dimly-lit prime rib restaurant. Seokjin hopped out of his car at the valet and took you straight to the host to get seated. Two glasses of the finest red wine that they had were poured while you both waited for the food to arrive. You looked at him over your glass as you took a small sip of the smooth, bitter red wine, slightly smiling to yourself at how incredibly delicious his side-profile was.

"What?" He chuckled, his chin resting on his firmly clasped hands.

"You're just really handsome."

"Yeah?" He smiles, his dimples beneath his eyes making an appearance. "Thank you."

"You didn't have to take me here." You looked around, a little worried about how expensive this place was.

"I didn't have to, but I wanted to."

"What's the occasion?" You asked, not really sure how to ask the question of what now? Where do we go with this? You watch as he takes a sip of his wine before he takes another look at you and licks his lips.

"You."

"What about me?"'

"I'm just happy we got to do this. And uh, I know our situation isn't the best but I want to reassure you that this is where I wanna be."

"But--" He already knew what you were going to say. You looked at this left hand, noticing that he hadn't worn his ring in such a long time. You don't even remember the last time you've seen it.

"When we get back, I'm going to break things off with Grace." He flatly says. "Look, I-I-" He paused and sighed. "First and foremost, me and Grace just haven't worked out for awhile so this is what I have to do for myself, regardless of our situation." He asks for your hand across the table, which you gladly give. You watch as he gently caresses the top of your hand with his thumb before looking back up at him. "I'm in love with you, Y/N. And I know where I wanna be. I wanna do this with you. But you know I would never force you into something that you don't want, or aren't comfortable with." You knew what he was hinting at. You knew he was talking about Jungkook, but he didn't know how to straight up ask you what your plans were with him. This was all new to him.

"I want this with you too." Is all you respond with, because it is true. You've wanted this for awhile, no matter how many times you've tried to push it aside and suppress your feelings. No matter how many times you've promised yourself and Ryujin you'd keep your distance. Jin was what you wanted. He brought your hand up to his lips, planting a soft kiss on the top before gently caressing it once more. The food arrived, the waitress placing the plates down in front of you two. The rest of dinner is a little quieter, you and Jin chiming in every now and then about the food or about plans for the upcoming week, how his conference was, etc.

The last stop was the Griffith Observatory, both you and Jin just wanting to be in each other's presence while looking at the view of Los Angeles in the night time. You were just happy, honestly. Both of you. You didn't think it could get to this point, yet here you were. You didn't have to hide anymore, nor did you have to suppress those feelings. You could just welcome it.

And so tonight is the last night until the next time that you could be in his arms, cuddling and taking in his warmth. You couldn't wait until you could do this again. You both got ready for bed, turned off the lights and cuddled in the dark, the only lights coming in were from the city lights outside. Jin held you closely as part of your body rested on his. His hand caressed your back, drawing small circles every now and then while you kissed him slowly and passionately. It didn't escalate into anything more no matter how deep or intense the kisses became, because all you wanted was to kiss him, take him in. Be in his arms.

Be still.

The next morning comes quick and you really don't wanna fly back home. The flight is only a quick hour back, Jin holding your hand the entire time and pulling you close every moment he could get. Jin has his car parked in the airport lot, which is only a tram ride over and a few steps out of the station. He held your hand as he threw your duffle on the top of his luggage and pushed both belongings towards his car.

"Seokjin." You both pull your gaze from each other towards the cars ahead.

Grace.

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I’ll hold you to that

Summary: There’s a new message from a stranger in her DMs, but what does he want from her and why exactly is he so freaking cute?

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader (College AU)

Warnings: swearing; that should be it, I think?

A/N: This is the second fic in two days, who even am I? What am I even doing? What is happening?! My only excuse is that I’ve started this like 2 months ago and only now got round to finishing it so...enjoy?

This might need a second part though, I feel like I need some college dorkiness in my life rn

Also, do some text and ig messages count as making this a social media au? Probably not, since I was too lazy to do that format with the apps and all that?

masterlist // Watermelon Sugar - another part

Natasha is lying on her friend’s bed, furiously typing away at her phone. The chime of incoming messages is constant and it is starting to drive Y/N up the wall.

“You could do this in your room as well, you know.” Turning in her desk chair, ready to start going off on the redhead, Y/N is cut short by a long suffering sigh. “What’s wrong now?” She knows that if she ignores Nat now, she would only get more annoying, which in turn would leave her no chance of finishing studying for the night.

“I’m talking with the people in my group, trying to prepare for the mock trial next month and there’s this guy who is completely infuriating!” Nat spats and lets out another groan, as her fingers fly across the screen. “He says that we should stop defending the CFO and try and get a settlement because it’s obvious he actually did indeed commit fraud. How are we supposed to make a case and win when he’s completely disregarding everything we’ve studied this semester? Of course the prick committed fraud, but we still have to make the case for him, this is the fucking assignment, you pompous asshole.”

“Yeah, babe, I have no idea what you’re saying there, but go you! Down with Wall Street or whatever, but I still need to study for this management exam, so it would be great if you could kindly fuck off to your room?” Y/N smiles at Nat, who finally looks up at her and sighs.

“Fine. I’ll let you study for your stupid exam, but you still need to reply to that cute guy like you promised.”

“Remind me again, why am I supposed to do that?”

“Because you promised, you ass! And your sex life is shit so Wands and I reckon if you get laid, you’ll stop being so stuck up about school.” It’s Nat’s turn to smile sweetly at Y/N, who throws a pen at her retreating form.

“Why are you guys like this?!”

“We both have unresolved daddy issues, now get on with it or I’ll send Wanda in here.”

Y/N sighs heavily and slumps in her chair. She glances at her charging phone on the desk and tentatively picks it up. She unlocks it, a picture of her and her roommates popping up on the screen and the notification is still there. Still taunting her, still adding fuel to her friends’ pestering.

They have looked through his page, of course. They have looked at all the pictures with his friends, some of them recognisable from the halls of college, all the pictures of him in various cafes, restaurants, bars, gyms, but the picture she still comes back to is the one with him at the beach. Wayfarers perched on the bridge of his nose, ruffled hair in the wind, and that tan that stretches from the set shoulders to the prominent six pack (although the bottle of beer in his hand makes those abs so unfair to believe exist) to the firm thighs. She has looked through all of his pictures, analysing every detail and description, still wondering how in the hell she managed to catch his attention enough to grant her a message from him. And then she would go on her profile, filled with pictures from the dance studio, her coffee filled all-nighters in the library, and fair enough, there is that picture of her at the pool where her bum looks just right and she could get why in a sense, but what the hell, look at that guy!

Her fingers still hover over the notification indecisively, when the group chat pops up on her screen.

Wands: do it, bitch

Y/N: I was just getting myself ready!!!!

Wands: u’re a clown

Wands: JUST DO IT

Y/N: why must you attack me like this

Nat: I’m interrupting my fight with that idiot to send you this very important message

Nat: do it, bitch

Y/N: I hate you both

Y/N finally taps on the notification and there - in all its glory there is one simple message that has been giving her a headache since the previous night. Granted, she was a bit drunk on wine, and the shriek she let out when she saw the blinking notification made her toss her phone to the other side of the couch. Wanda picked it up and looked at it confused, while Natasha slumped on the couch in order to see over her shoulder. They both whistled at the same time, which was disturbing in and of itself, thinking how alike all of their mannerisms have become since they became roommates two years prior.

She takes a big breath that does nothing to relieve her nerves, and biting her lip, she finally opens the app to her messages.

JamesBBarnes: Hey

Huh. Funny how such a little greeting makes her tap her leg unconsciously to the point that their downstairs neighbours will be complaining at their door soon. She closes her eyes for a second, shakes her head and mutters a 'what the hell.'

Y/Nwhatthehell: Hi

Now that this obstacle is over, Y/N idly wonders what made her so flustered. He's just a guy who happened to send her a message after following her on Instagram. There's nothing weird about it, is it? They're both attending the same university, she's fairly sure one of his friends is actually the guy Natasha is currently fighting with on that project of theirs. Maybe he just wants to be friendly, maybe he needs some management information for one of his mock trials. Who even knows, so what is she so stressed about? With a huff, she throws her phone away, determined to finish the chapter opened in front of her and relax for the rest of the evening.

She's in the middle of writing the last note on employee engagement, when a ping from her bed startles her into dropping her pen. She turns cautiously, as if sudden movements would force Aragog crawling out of the device, but decides she's being stupid again so she stands up and nearly lunges on the sheets.

As confusion is written all over her face after reading the first line in the notifications bar, she opens the app and stares at the screen.

JamesBBarnes: Listen, I know this might sound weird, but could you ask your friend to stop fighting with Steve? I'm trying to study over here and he's been throwing stuff around since yesterday saying something about a redhead girl who's hijacking his trial just bc she wants to prove a point

She doesn't know what she was expecting, but it's definitely not this. Is that disappointment she feels for hyping herself up just so he can ask this type of nonsense of her? Maybe, but maybe she just feels a little silly for having thought this guy would hit on her on Instagram. She sighs and replies to him, now annoyed with herself more than anything.

Y/Nwhatthehell: why didn't you just send her a message?

JamesBBarnes: From what I've heard about this Natasha, you seemed like the more reasonable one

The reply is swift, and makes her smile. Nat can be a bit too much if not handled with care, especially when it comes to group work. However, Y/N now has what seems like a million questions, and she’s even more confused than a few minutes ago.

Y/Nwhatthehell: how did you even find my IG anyway?

JamesBBarnes: oh Steve has a huge crush on Natasha and we were all forced to go through her every single photo and hear about how amazing she is every single day since the beginning of the year

JamesBBarnes: but maybe don't tell her that 

JamesBBarnes: you know what, screw that. You can even show her that msg, the punk will never be man enough to tell her himself, might as well get my revenge for all the days I've been forced to listen to him go on and on abt her

She takes a second to read the messages again, when a howl of laughter bursts out of her chest. She had an inkling this was the case, from the way Steve has suspiciously been assigned to every single group project Nat had since September. And Y/N could bet his feelings weren't unrequited, for all the hissy fits Natasha has been throwing about him lately.

Y/Nwhatthehell: what if i tell you he might get what he wants if i tell her that?

Y/Nwhathehell: would you be able to put up with him when he's in a relationship with her? He's probs gonna be 10x worse

JamesBBarnes: oh shit u're right 

JamesBBarnes: fuck it, might as well get it over with. At least he'll stop moping every time she calls him an idiot 

Y/Nwhatthehell: you make a very compelling case, James. Studying law must have its benefits...you know, like having strong well rounded arguments

JamesBBarnes: my arguments would make more sense if i would be allowed to study ya know 

JamesBBarnes: and it's Bucky 

Y/Nwhatthehell: ?

JamesBBarnes: my friends call me Bucky 

Y/Nwhathehell: so we're friends now, are we?

Y/N can't stop the feeling of giddiness that starts to inflate through her chest. She might not have gotten the flirtatious messages she was expecting, but this seems somehow better. More real.

JamesBBarnes: if we're playing matchmakers for our friends, might as well be, don't you think?

Y/Nwhatthehell: i think i'll need a stronger argument than that in order to help you

JamesBBarnes: tell you what. I'll buy you a coffee and a pizza if you help me with those two 

Y/Nwhatthehell: coffee and pizza? A man after my own heart

She wonders for a second if that comment will freak him out, but hangs her head with a grin that splits her face when she sees his reply.

JamesBBarnes: only for you babe 

Bucky stares at the screen, unable to process what he just sent. He likes this girl, likes how his first impression after seeing her profile hasn't changed after starting to talk to her. He knows how easy it is to lie away your life on social media, and he can admit he's more than excited that she seems as wholesome and funny through text, and not only through pictures. Following her and sending her that message yesterday was his genuine desperation at trying to do something, anything really to make Steve stop, but he didn't expect to actually want to keep talking to her. He really hopes he hasn't messed up anything, when 'Typing...' keeps appearing and disappearing.

Y/Nwhatthehell: i'll hold you to that, babe

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Pho Filet, 9463 Garvey Ave., Unit A, South El Monte, CA 91733

It’s long been a dream of mine to have a big bowl of pho for breakfast like they do in Vietnam, but most Vietnamse restaurants in the US don’t open early enough for breakfast. Pho Filet, which is often mentioned as one of the best pho places in the SGV, opens at 8:30 AM. It gets crowded, so showing up for breakfast might be a good way to avoid the crowds…though there were plenty of people (probably mostly Vietnamese – it’s in a Vietnamese area) there eating pho for breakfast. I tried to come back during lunchtime and there were quite a few people waiting for a table. 

The menu includes drinks, appetizers, pho, rice plates, vermicelli plates, and other noodle soups. Che (desserts) are on display near the register.

I’m pretty sure my waitress didn’t speak English because she didn’t say anything to me but the manager translated my order to her. He was friendly. Complimentary hot tea is available though no refill was offered.

* #14 Pho bac (filet mignon with thick fresh rice noodle, Small $7, XL $8). The pho bac is what they’re known for. It came out fast and hot, the way I like it, with ample noodles, tender meat and lots of fresh sprouts and basil. I added a squeeze of fresh lime. So the noodles were topped with fresh ginger – unusual but I really liked the flavor the ginger added. The broth was clear and not oily. It wasn’t as sweet or heavily spiced as other places’ broth, but there was more beef flavor. The filet mignon was thinly sliced and still raw (I could see red and blood) but it cooked in the hot soup. Flavor and texture wise, this was perfection for pho. Note, the XL is filling but it wasn’t as crazy big as some other pho places. I didn’t notice much MSG in the broth but I’m not MSG sensitive. Some people say that they don’t use MSG, but others say that they do.

Condiments and utensils are kept at each table. I really liked the addition of pickled jalapenos to my pho.

The restaurant is pretty no frills and it looks older. This is the original location. They opened another one in Rosemead but I heard the South El Monte one is better. There are booths around the perimeter and tables in the middle. When you’re done with the meal, go to the cash register to pay.

Cash only.

5 out of 5 stars

By Lolia S.

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Diet Review on all the Pitfalls that make you Fat

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Diet Review on all the Pitfalls that make you Fat

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Diet Review on all the Pitfalls that make you Fat

Life is one big rush. People multitask by need, not by talent. If they do one chore or job at a time, nothing gets done, and the work just piles up sky high. Whilst you are rushing around to get everything done, the last thing on your mind is to eat correctly, and only drink one cup of coffee a day. Coffee is more or less like a staple drink to keep you alive, and if it only was coffee, it wouldn’t have been so bad. Just take one rusk with your cuppa, also not too bad. So,let’s do the maths. One rusk for three cuppas’s a day, every day, Monday to Friday, therefore, adds really unnecessary calories that’ll cause you are putting on weight.

The last thing you think about, is nutrition, and healthy snacks. Let alone exercise in a gym. The only exercise you get, is running from A to B, and higher stress levels to get everything done, whilst on top of it all, it is like life is challenging you. People don’t seem to understand you, and do everything wrong, or don’t keep to their appointments. There are lots of reasons to irritate you, and put you on a high stress level, whilst anything passing your lips, go directly to your hips or your belly.

Here are a few evils that jump in front of your survival and your beautiful body.

Vending Machines

What is easier than to put a few dollars in for a soda, crisps or a chocolate. Admittantly, one soda isn’t going to make you fat. The habit of doing it every day, is going to make you fat, therefore there are so many unnecessary calories.

Office Trolley

Yes, so this home chef has discovered the weak points of all your hardworking people in the office, and every day she passes your office at the same time with treats to die for,so, here we go. If, for one or other mysterious reason, she couldn’t make it on day five, you are prepared to go and fetch her, where ever she lives, because you are enslaved to her super recipe for doughnuts.

Tuck Shop

Just around the corner. Isn’t that potato salad divine, and every cell in your body is craving for it at lunch time. Let’s look at the facts, whilst the potato alone will keep you alive, and give you the energy you need, it won’t make you fat. What is fattening, is that nice salad dressing that the potatoes are swimming in, and yes, the kitchen is using the full fat brand. There’s nothing lean in this recipe!

These endless Meetings

That ends into a social get together. That delicious hamburger and fries you just ate, did you perhaps count the calories? Again, that lovely, delicious sauce on your patty, that drips with fat, and your poor body has to make a plan to store or absorb all that fat.

You didn’t cook for a whole week

and your body is complaining. Your body wants your food, nutritious, home cooked food. Start off by giving your precious body a cup of soup, made with fresh vegetables from the garden, together with only one hard boiled egg. Old body will thank you forever for this kindness. The food in restaurants, take aways and shops, are just not the same. It normally is loaded with MSG salts, fatty sauces, too much caffeine and alcohol, stale cigarette air. The taste is great, but the body doesn’t like it. Your ankles swell, or your midriff gets bloated like a bull frog.

When last did you drink a nice glass of clean water

without anything added? Your body absolutely craves for a glass of clean, pristine water. You are suppose to drink eight glasses of water a day. Please give it to your body. It really needs it to operate in top gear. The added bonuses are, it washes out all that horrible MSG salts and fats. Do it often enough, and you’ll notice you are starting to lose some weight. The reason being that you’re not so hungry anymore, and you eat less,and the water assists the body to get rid of all that is not suppose to be in your body.

Conclusion

You probably can add a whole list more. Bad habits will cause weight gain. Best is to review your diet, set healthy goals for your one and only body, exercise daily, take your medication, and realize you need to eat three times a day nice healthy food. Best of luck.

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25 Health “Facts” That Are Totally Wrong

There are some health “facts” that many people have heard so many times that they just assume they are true, theories like “juice is healthy” or “gum will stay in your belly for years . strong>

But many of these “facts” are actually myths about health . strong>

Here’s what the social sciences genuinely adds about these health illusions . strong>

There’s something about state and nutrition folk wisdom that’s resistant to truth.

Common health “facts” include the ideas that MSG will determine you sick, that a juice detox is just what you need after a week of gratification, and that sports alcohols like Gatorade are absolutely penalize since you need the electrolytes.

None of these things are true. They, like many other kinfolk sayings and tips-off, fall into the category of health illusions that are totally — or at least chiefly — inaccurate.

Here’s the truth behind some of those health claims you’ve discovered all your life, but might not hold water at all.

MSG in Chinese food will impel you sick . strong>

Will Wei, Business Insider

The myth that MSG is bad for you comes from a character a doctor wrote to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968, where he coined the call “Chinese restaurant syndrome” to describe a variety of manifestations including numbness and general weakness.

But though medical doctors accused these tenderness on monosodium glutamate, MSG, studies and research doesn’t back it up. The technical consensus according the American Chemical Society is that “MSG can temporarily alter a hand-picked few when downed in huge quantities on an empty stomach, but it’s perfectly safe for the great majority of beings . strong> “

And this procreates appreciation — MSG is nothing more than a common amino battery-acid with a sodium atom included. The placebo impact is more than strong enough to account for the negative effects sometimes associated with MSG.

Coffee stunts your swelling . strong>

There isn’t a whole lot of prove on this, but most research determines no equivalence between caffeine consumption and bone increment in minors.

In adults, researchers have seen that increased caffeine consumption can very slightly limit calcium absorption, but potential impacts is so small that a tablespoon of milk will more than adequately offset the consequences of a goblet of chocolate.

Interestingly, advertising seems to be chiefly responsible for this myth. A breakfast cereal manufacturer referred C.W. Post was trying to market a morning liquid called “Postum” as an alternative to chocolate, so he ran ads on the “evils” of Americans’ favorite hot liquid, announcing it a “nerve poison” that should never be served to children.

Bundle up or you’ll catch a freezing . strong>

Being physically cold isn’t what comes you sick; revelation to a cold virus does. There’s no proof that going outside with wet hair when it’s freezing will oblige you sick by itself — stipulated you bypass hypothermia.

But there are some scientifically sound explanations for why people catch more freezings in winter. Because we deplete more time in close quarters indoors, it is more likely that we’ll cross routes with a cold-causing virus spread from another person during the winter. And for various rationalizations, we may have a harder duration pushing off freezing and flu virus specks in winter.

But being freezing itself isn’t what induces sick, and some argue that cold exposure can actually improve your health.

The compound tryptophan in goose obligates you sleepy . strong>

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Who doesn’t adoration the post-Thanksgiving nap? We regularly consider those naps inescapable, since goose contains tryptophan, an amino acid that is a component of some of the intelligence compounds that help you relax.

But plenty of foods contain tryptophan. Cheddar cheese has even more than turkey — and cheddar is never pointed out as a sleep inducing meat. Experts say that instead, the carbs, alcohol, and general size of the Turkey-day feast is the reason for those delicious anniversary siestas.

Taking your vitamins will maintain you healthy . strong>

Vitamins definitely sounds like a great impression. One lozenge that can provide you everything “youve got to be” health!

If exclusively they toiled. After decades of research on vitamins, most reviews don’t find any reasons for our multivitamin wont, and in some cases, vitamins are really been associated with an increased risk of various types of cancers. Malnourished beings might benefit from some complements, but most of us should just get our vitamins naturally from food.

Beer before liquid, never sicker; liquor before brew, you’re in the clear . strong>

We’re all heard it: “beer before liquid, never sicker; liquor before brew, you’re in the clear.”

But while it’s very true that overdoing it with booze might leave you praying to the porcelain gods, there’s no need to lieu the accuse under the orders you deplete the refreshments in — booze is alcohol, and too much of it will make anyone feel sick.

However, there are some strange highways this section of suggestion can make sense. Beings who swap from beer to mixed drinks( with abilities and judgment once gloomy) may be less likely likely to monitor their booze uptake and thus suck more.

And some research registers that your mas metabolizes mixed drinks faster than higher-concentration alcohol( a shot of whiskey, reply ). So computing liquid to a stomach-full of beer could, in theory, create a kind of mixed drink that they are able to metabolize faster than one or the other on its own.

We’ll call this one partly true, but chalk up the “never sicker” segment mostly to bad decision making.

You lose 90% of your body heat through your brain . strong>

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Not consequently. You lose body heat through anything uncovered, according to Dr. Aaron E. Carroll and Dr. Rachel C. Vreeman, writers of “Don’t Swallow Your Gum !: Myths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies About Your Mas and Health.”

Your head is not special in that behavior — it’s merely more likely to be exposed.

“Most of the time when we’re outside in the coldnes, we’re robed, ” Richard Ingebretsen, MD, PhD, told WebMD Magazine. “If you don’t have a hat on, you lose heat through your head, just as you would lose heat through your legs if you were wearing shorts.”

Wait an hour after snacking to dive or you’ll drown . strong>

Some parents say no swimming for 30 hours after eating, some speak an hour, but many of u.s. may remember waiting out the clock before returning to the consortium or sea. The belief behind this seems to be that accepting food will draw blood to your tummy, meaning that less blood is available for your muscles, constituting them most likely to cramp.

But there’s no attest to support this claim. In actuality, many sources say there are no documented cases of anyone ever drowning because they’ve had a cramp related to swimming with a full stomach.

Cramps do happen often when swimming, but they aren’t can be attributed to what’s in your tummy. If you do get one, best available policy is to hover for a minute and give it pass.

It makes 7 years for gum to grasp if you swallow it . strong>

When it came out that Trump press secretary Sean Spicer chewings and withdraws two and a half packs of chewing gum by midday every day, many people had the same interrogate: Couldn’t that maybe do some distres?

Probably not. Gum is mostly indigestible, meaning that it frequently surpasses through your bowels and outlets the other side, like the majority of what your mas doesn’t necessary and can’t digest.

“On uncommon moments, large quantities of swallowed gum combined with constipation have blocked intestines in brats, ” Dr. Michael Picco of the Mayo Clinic writes. Still, he announces swallowing gums generally isn’t harmful.

When you’re liquor on gin, you get aim . strong>

There are plenty of alcohol-related superstitions out there, and the idea that different alcohols have differing impacts on you is a big one. Some people claim wine procreates them sleepy while whiskey attains them want to argue.

In short, experts say this is bunk. “Alcohol is alcohol whichever way you slice it, ” pharmacologist Paul Clayton, a colleague of Oxford’s Institute of Food, Brain& Behaviour, told The Guardian.

So why do parties insist that tequila constructs them crazy?

One very strong possibility is that we experience the effects we expect when we booze( or deplete most substances ). Scientific experiment going back to the 1960 s demonstrate that we “learn” how to behave while drunkard, and that our actual drunken action is a direct reflection of our hopes.

Although many beings may become violent while intoxicated, people who have never associated drunkenness with conflict don’t support the same demeanor. So by that same sign, if we expect that vodka will impel us want to sing karaoke, we can perhaps curve that into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

A juice cleanse will ‘detox’ you after an unhealthy eating orgy . strong>

The myth of the juice cleanse is a stubborn one — and one frequently promoted by fames — but it’s both bad and harmful.

First of all, your body naturally removes injurious chemicals through the liver, kidneys, and gastrointestinal parcel — there’s anything about juice that will hasten that process along.

Secondly, juicing is mainly a route of removing supportive fiber from fruits and vegetables — countless sugary fruit juices are as bad for you as sodas. You’re preparing the outcome little health by “juicing” it.

Everyone should booze eight glasses of water per day . strong>

Hydration are key, but the idea that eight glasses of spray is crucial is a strange one.

In healthful people, researchers haven’t felt a connection between flowing intake and kidney canker, cardiac infarction, sodium levels, or skin quality.

People get a lot of their sea from menus and other beverages in the first place, but there is a good reason to booze more sea. It’s a calorie free alternative to other beverages( especially sugary ones ), and people who drink water instead of those beverages consume fewer calories overall.

But in general, booze when “you think youre” thirsty — you don’t is a requirement to count the glasses.

It’s fine to eat something if it’s been on the flooring for less than five seconds . strong>

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It’s the worst when something you really wanted to eat falls on the flooring. But if you grab it in five seconds, is it okay?

Sorry, but the five-second-rule isn’t a real thing. Bacteria can infect a nutrient within milliseconds. Moist nutrients attract more bacteria than cool meat, but there’s no “safe duration.” Instead, refuge depends on how clean the surface you plummeted the menu on is.

Whether you eat it or not after that is up to you, but if the people that amble on that storey are also walking around New York City, for example, we wouldn’t recommend it.

Vaccines can be risky . strong>

This idea comes from a now thoroughly-debunked( and retracted) learn of 12 brats that appeared in 1998 in The Lancet and claimed there was a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

It turned out that investigate wasn’t exclusively flawed, the committee is also contained false information that was necessary to make its point.

Since then, several subjects that have analyzed data regarding more than a million children have shown that there’s no connection between inoculations and autism.

But panics about that connection have persisted, partially stimulated on by public figure inducing spurious pretensions about inoculations. This contribute to shocking infections like measles coming back here.

Yogurt will help put your digestive plan back in order . strong>

This is one of our modern health beliefs. Yogurt is frequently marketed as having benefits for digestion and as something that’ll keep parties skinny because of probiotics, or the “good bacteria” that’s living inside it.

Researchers have found that the bacteria in our figures are exceedingly connected to our metabolism and obesity frequencies, among other things, so it seems like there’s a logical tie here.

But we don’t more understand how the trillions of bacteria in our figures work well enough to influence them in this way. Despite the facts of the case that the probiotic business was value $23.1 billion in 2012, we can’t clear yogurt that will amend our internal bacterial balance.

That’s not to say that yogurt is harmful, just that its benefits are oversold. Plus, a lot of yogurt is parcelled with sugar, which we do know contributing to obesity and other questions — so if you experience yogurt, find a version that isn’t full of added wasteful calories or it might have the opposite of the intended effect.

An apple a date keeps the doctor apart . strong>

Apples are good for you, bundled with vitamin C and fiber, both of which are important to long-term health, but they aren’t all you need.

And if specific viruses or bacteria get into your plan, an apple will regrettably do nothing to protect you. So plow ahead and get that influenza shot, even if you dine apples.

Eating ice cream will build your cold worse . strong>

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If you’re home sick with a cold, you can totally go ahead and solace yourself with some ice cream.

The idea that dairy increases mucus yield is very fortunately absolutely no truth to the rumors, according to investigates and a medical doctor at the Mayo Clinic, who tells “in fact, frozen dairy commodities can allay a absces throat and require calories when you otherwise may not eat.”

Praise be.

Cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis . strong>

Fortunately, this isn’t genuine either.

Cracking your knuckles may irk the people around you, but even people who have done it often for many years aren’t any more likely to develop arthritis than those who don’t.

Starve a delirium, feed a cold . strong>

There’s a good reason you may have heard this said various paths, either “starve a cold, feed a fever” or “starve a delirium, feed a cold.”

Despite a slew of headlines claiming that starving a delirium wasn’t a story in response to a tiny and chiefly misjudged consider in 2002, there’s no real prove to back this up. Restraint your caloric intake may actually hurt your immune organization more than facilitating it, and it would certainly be a bad theory to not feed during the course of its 6-8 daytime duration of a cold.

Instead, physicians say to go ahead and devour if you are able. The more precise idiom, as Scientific American notes, would be “feed a cold, feed a fever.” And make sure to get batch of fluids.

It’s penalize to imbibe athletics sips to rehydrate . strong>

We all know that soda and similarly sugary sips like lemonade are poor for us( right ?), but what about athletics sucks like Gatorade or Powerade? Sports-focused promote has successfully convinced a whole lot of beings that downing a bottle of this trash is fine, extremely if you’ve started for a trot recently — it’s replacing electrolytes, after all.

But actually, for most people the amount of sugar in these imbibes is far more than is needed — even if you’ve been activity. Lower calorie options, which many of the same firms have created in recent years, are much better options. Or just drink water.

Drinking liquid can assist you avoid a sunburn . strong>

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady desires hydration and has said that clean drinking water facilitates him shun getting a sunburn.

There’s nothing wrong with hydration. But there’s no ground whatsoever that being hydrated can prevent you from getting burned by ultraviolet radiation in any way. Only sunscreen or attire will do that. Vanish onward and drink enough irrigate to quench your yearning. But if you’re going to get out in the sunbathe for a while, don’t forget to cover up.

Coffee and beer dehydrate you, since caffeine and alcohol are diuretics . strong>

In ample quantities, caffeine and booze can have a diuretic gist. But the quantity of caffeine in a normal goblet of chocolate or booze in a brew isn’t enough to really have this gist, according to one recent study. A moderate extent of either coffee or brew hydrates beings just about as well as spray does.

Milk does a figure good( and safeguards your bones )! strong>

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This is an improbably successful fleck of publicizing that has wormed its nature into our mentalities and policies — the US Department of Agriculture tells us that adults should suck three beakers of milk a day, primarily for calcium and vitamin D.

However, multiple analyses show that there isn’t an association between imbibing more milk( or taking calcium and vitamin D complements) and having fewer faultings.

Milk is fine, but it’s not a mystical health suck. Amazingly, however, milk is specially hydrating — similar to pedialyte, both even more hydrating than water.

You shouldn’t eat too many eggs , since it’ll collect your cholesterol . strong>

Eggs have lots of cholesterol in them. For the majority of members of us, that’s not an issue, since a growing figure of research pictures that dietary cholesterol( from meat you gobble) doesn’t certainly have much of an effect on blood cholesterol in the vast majority of people.

Thank goodness.

Eating fat will make you fatty . strong>

The tide has started to swaying back the other lane on this one, but recommendations regarding low-fat meat remain common.

The decision to demonize fatty for its caloric concentration and heart-clogging consequences was mainly the result of crooked discipline influenced by a carbohydrate transaction group. It turns out that the society-wide decision to cut saturated fatty from nutritions led to increased intake of sugar and handled trans obesities, all of which were most likely little healthy overall.

We necessary a moderate amount of overweight — specially health solid — in our nutritions.

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25 Health “Facts” That Are Totally Wrong

There are some health “facts” that many people have heard so many times that they just assume they are true, ideas like “juice is healthy” or “gum will stay in your stomach for years.

But many of these “facts” are really myths about health.

Here’s what the science really says about these health myths.

There’s something about health and nutrition folk wisdom that’s resistant to truth.

Common health “facts” include the ideas that MSG will make you sick, that a juice detox is just what you need after a week of indulgence, and that sports drinks like Gatorade are totally fine since you need the electrolytes.

None of these things are true. They, like many other folk sayings and tips, fall into the category of health myths that are totally — or at least mostly — wrong. 

Here’s the truth behind some of those health claims you’ve heard all your life, but might not hold water at all.

MSG in Chinese food will make you sick.

Will Wei, Business Insider

The myth that MSG is bad for you comes from a letter a doctor wrote to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968, where he coined the term “Chinese restaurant syndrome” to describe a variety of symptoms including numbness and general weakness.

But though the doctor blamed these feelings on monosodium glutamate, MSG, the research doesn’t back it up. The scientific consensus according the American Chemical Society is that “MSG can temporarily affect a select few when consumed in huge quantities on an empty stomach, but it’s perfectly safe for the vast majority of people.“

And this makes sense — MSG is nothing more than a common amino acid with a sodium atom added. The placebo effect is more than strong enough to account for the negative effects sometimes associated with MSG.

Coffee stunts your growth.

There isn’t a whole lot of evidence on this, but most research finds no correlation between caffeine consumption and bone growth in kids. 

In adults, researchers have seen that increased caffeine consumption can very slightly limit calcium absorption, but the impact is so small that a tablespoon of milk will more than adequately offset the effects of a cup of coffee. 

Interestingly, advertising seems to be largely responsible for this myth. A breakfast cereal manufacturer named C.W. Post was trying to market a morning beverage called “Postum” as an alternative to coffee, so he ran ads on the “evils” of Americans’ favorite hot beverage, calling it a “nerve poison” that should never be served to children.

Bundle up or you’ll catch a cold.

Being physically cold isn’t what gets you sick; exposure to a cold virus does. There’s no evidence that going outside with wet hair when it’s freezing will make you sick by itself — provided you avoid hypothermia.

But there are some scientifically sound explanations for why people catch more colds in winter. Because we spend more time in close quarters indoors, it is more likely that we’ll cross paths with a cold-causing virus spread from another person during the winter. And for several reasons, we may have a harder time fighting off cold and flu virus particles in winter.

But being cold itself isn’t what makes sick, and some argue that cold exposure can actually improve your health.

The chemical tryptophan in turkey makes you sleepy.

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Who doesn’t love the post-Thanksgiving nap? We frequently consider those naps inevitable, since turkey contains tryptophan, an amino acid that is a component of some of the brain chemicals that help you relax.

But plenty of foods contain tryptophan. Cheddar cheese has even more than turkey — and cheddar is never pointed out as a sleep inducing food. Experts say that instead, the carbs, alcohol, and general size of the Turkey-day feast are the cause of those delicious holiday siestas. 

Taking your vitamins will keep you healthy.

Vitamins sound like a great idea. One pill that can provide you everything you need to be healthy!

If only they worked. After decades of research on vitamins, most reviews don’t find any justification for our multivitamin habit, and in some cases, vitamins have actually been associated with an increased risk of various cancers. Malnourished people might benefit from some supplements, but most of us should just get our vitamins naturally from food.

Beer before liquor, never sicker; liquor before beer, you’re in the clear.

We’re all heard it: “beer before liquor, never sicker; liquor before beer, you’re in the clear.”

But while it’s very true that overdoing it with booze might leave you praying to the porcelain gods, there’s no need to place the blame on the order you consume the beverages in — alcohol is alcohol, and too much of it will make anyone feel sick.

However, there are some strange ways this piece of advice can make sense. People who switch from beer to mixed drinks (with senses and judgment already dulled) may be less likely likely to monitor their alcohol consumption and thus drink more.

And some research shows that your body metabolizes mixed drinks faster than higher-concentration alcohol (a shot of whiskey, say). So adding liquor to a stomach-full of beer could, in theory, create a sort of mixed drink that would metabolize faster than one or the other on its own.

We’ll call this one partly true, but chalk up the “never sicker” part mostly to bad decision making.

You lose 90% of your body heat through your head.

Flickr/hounombrellonelculo

Not necessarily. You lose body heat through anything uncovered, according to Dr. Aaron E. Carroll and Dr. Rachel C. Vreeman, authors of “Don’t Swallow Your Gum!: Myths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health.”

Your head is not special in that way — it’s just more likely to be exposed.

“Most of the time when we’re outside in the cold, we’re clothed,” Richard Ingebretsen, MD, PhD, told WebMD Magazine. “If you don’t have a hat on, you lose heat through your head, just as you would lose heat through your legs if you were wearing shorts.”

Wait an hour after eating to swim or you’ll drown.

Some parents say no swimming for 30 minutes after eating, some say an hour, but many of us may remember waiting out the clock before returning to the pool or beach. The theory behind this seems to be that digesting food will draw blood to your stomach, meaning that less blood is available for your muscles, making them more likely to cramp.

But there’s no evidence to support this claim. In fact, many sources say there are no documented cases of anyone ever drowning because they’ve had a cramp related to swimming with a full stomach.

Cramps do happen frequently when swimming, but they aren’t caused by what’s in your stomach. If you do get one, the best policy is to float for a minute and let it pass.

It takes 7 years for gum to digest if you swallow it.

When it got out that Trump press secretary Sean Spicer chews and swallows two and a half packs of chewing gum by noon every day, many people had the same question: Couldn’t that maybe do some harm?

Probably not. Gum is mostly indigestible, meaning that it usually passes through your intestines and exits the other side, like most of what your body doesn’t need and can’t digest.

“On rare occasions, large amounts of swallowed gum combined with constipation have blocked intestines in children,” Dr. Michael Picco of the Mayo Clinic writes. Still, he says swallowing gum generally isn’t harmful.

When you’re drunk on gin, you get mean.

There are plenty of alcohol-related myths out there, and the idea that different alcohols have different effects on you is a big one. Some people claim wine makes them sleepy while whiskey makes them want to argue.

In short, experts say this is bunk. “Alcohol is alcohol whichever way you slice it,” pharmacologist Paul Clayton, a fellow of Oxford’s Institute of Food, Brain & Behaviour, told The Guardian.

So why do people insist that tequila makes them crazy?

One very strong possibility is that we experience the effects we expect when we drink (or consume most substances). Scientific research going back to the 1960s shows that we “learn” how to behave while drunk, and that our actual drunken behavior is a direct reflection of our expectations.

Although many people may become violent while intoxicated, people who have never associated drunkenness with conflict don’t show the same behavior. So by that same token, if we expect that vodka will make us want to sing karaoke, we can perhaps turn that into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

A juice cleanse will ‘detox’ you after an unhealthy eating binge.

The myth of the juice cleanse is a stubborn one — and one frequently promoted by celebrities — but it’s both wrong and unhealthy.

First of all, your body naturally removes harmful chemicals through the liver, kidneys, and gastrointestinal tract — there’s nothing about juice that will hurry that process along.

Secondly, juicing is mostly a way of removing helpful fiber from fruits and vegetables — many sugary fruit juices are as bad for you as sodas. You’re making the fruit less healthy by “juicing” it.

Everyone should drink eight glasses of water a day.

Hydration is very important, but the idea that eight glasses of water is essential is a strange one. 

In healthy people, researchers haven’t found a connection between fluid intake and kidney disease, heart disease, sodium levels, or skin quality.

People get a lot of their water from foods and other beverages in the first place, but there is a good reason to drink more water. It’s a calorie free alternative to other beverages (especially sugary ones), and people who drink water instead of those beverages consume fewer calories overall.

But in general, drink when you are thirsty — you don’t need to count the glasses.

It’s fine to eat something if it’s been on the floor for less than 5 seconds.

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It’s the worst when something you really wanted to eat falls on the floor. But if you grab it in five seconds, is it okay?

Sorry, but the five-second-rule isn’t a real thing. Bacteria can contaminate a food within milliseconds. Moist foods attract more bacteria than dry foods, but there’s no “safe duration.” Instead, safety depends on how clean the surface you dropped the food on is.

Whether you eat it or not after that is up to you, but if the people that walk on that floor are also walking around New York City, for example, we wouldn’t recommend it.

Vaccines can be risky.

This idea comes from a now thoroughly-debunked (and retracted) study of 12 children that appeared in 1998 in The Lancet and claimed there was a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. 

It turned out that study wasn’t only flawed, it also contained false information that was necessary to make its point.

Since then, numerous studies that have analyzed data from more than a million children have shown that there’s no connection between vaccines and autism.

But fears about that connection have persisted, partially spurred on by public figures making false claims about vaccines. This has led to scary diseases like measles coming back.

Yogurt will help put your digestive system back in order.

This is one of our modern health myths. Yogurt is frequently marketed as having benefits for digestion and as something that’ll keep people slim because of probiotics, or the “good bacteria” that’s living inside it.

Researchers have found that the bacteria in our bodies are very connected to our metabolism and obesity rates, among other things, so it seems like there’s a logical connection here.

But we don’t yet understand how the trillions of bacteria in our bodies work well enough to manipulate them in this way. Despite the fact that the probiotic business was worth $23.1 billion in 2012, we can’t make yogurt that will repair our inner bacterial balance.

That’s not to say that yogurt is unhealthy, just that its benefits are oversold. Plus, a lot of yogurt is packed with sugar, which we do know contributes to obesity and other problems — so if you enjoy yogurt, find a version that isn’t full of additional unnecessary calories or it might have the opposite of the intended effect.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Apples are good for you, packed with vitamin C and fiber, both of which are important to long-term health, but they aren’t all you need.

And if certain viruses or bacteria get into your system, an apple will unfortunately do nothing to protect you. So go ahead and get that flu shot, even if you eat apples.

Eating ice cream will make your cold worse.

roboppy/Flickr

If you’re home sick with a cold, you can totally go ahead and comfort yourself with some ice cream.

The idea that dairy increases mucus production is very fortunately not true, according to researchers and a doctor at the Mayo Clinic, who says “in fact, frozen dairy products can soothe a sore throat and provide calories when you otherwise may not eat.”

Praise be.

Cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis.

Fortunately, this isn’t true either.

Cracking your knuckles may annoy the people around you, but even people who have done it frequently for many years aren’t any more likely to develop arthritis than those who don’t.

Starve a fever, feed a cold.

There’s a good reason you may have heard this said multiple ways, either “starve a cold, feed a fever” or “starve a fever, feed a cold.”

Despite a slew of headlines claiming that starving a fever wasn’t a myth in response to a tiny and largely misinterpreted study in 2002, there’s no real evidence to back this up. Limiting your caloric consumption may actually hurt your immune system more than helping it, and it would certainly be a bad idea to not eat during the 6-8 day duration of a cold.

Instead, doctors say to go ahead and eat if you can. The more accurate expression, as Scientific American notes, would be “feed a cold, feed a fever.” And make sure to get plenty of fluids.

It’s fine to drink sports drinks to rehydrate.

We all know that soda and similarly sugary drinks like lemonade are bad for us (right?), but what about sports drinks like Gatorade or Powerade? Sports-focused advertising has successfully convinced a whole lot of people that downing a bottle of this stuff is fine, especially if you’ve gone for a jog recently — it’s replacing electrolytes, after all.

But really, for most people the amount of sugar in these drinks is far more than is needed — even if you’ve been exercising. Lower calorie options, which many of the same companies have created in recent years, are much better options. Or just drink water. 

Drinking water can help you avoid a sunburn.

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady loves hydration and has said that drinking water helps him avoid getting a sunburn.

There’s nothing wrong with hydration. But there’s no evidence whatsoever that being hydrated can prevent you from getting burned by ultraviolet radiation in any way. Only sunscreen or clothing will do that. Go ahead and drink enough water to quench your thirst. But if you’re going to be out in the sun for a while, don’t forget to cover up.

Coffee and beer dehydrate you, since caffeine and alcohol are diuretics.

In sufficient quantities, caffeine and alcohol can have a diuretic effect. But the amount of caffeine in a typical cup of coffee or alcohol in a beer isn’t enough to really have this effect, according to one recent study. A moderate amount of either coffee or beer hydrates people just about as well as water does. 

Milk does a body good (and protects your bones)!

Guy Montag/Flickr

This is an incredibly successful bit of advertising that has wormed its way into our brains and policies — the US Department of Agriculture tells us that adults should drink three cups of milk a day, mostly for calcium and vitamin D.

However, multiple studies show that there isn’t an association between drinking more milk (or taking calcium and vitamin D supplements) and having fewer fractures. 

Milk is fine, but it’s not a magical health drink. Surprisingly, however, milk is particularly hydrating — similar to pedialyte, both even more hydrating than water.

You shouldn’t eat too many eggs, since it’ll raise your cholesterol.

Eggs have lots of cholesterol in them. For most of us, that’s not an issue, since a growing body of research shows that dietary cholesterol (from foods you eat) doesn’t really have much of an effect on blood cholesterol in the vast majority of people.

Thank goodness.

Eating fat will make you fat.

The tide has started to swing back the other way on this one, but recommendations for low-fat foods remain common. 

The decision to demonize fat for its caloric density and heart-clogging effects was largely the result of shady science influenced by a sugar trade group. It turns out that the society-wide decision to cut saturated fat from diets led to increased consumption of sugar and processed trans fats, all of which were most likely less healthy overall.

We need a moderate amount of fat — especially healthy fat — in our diets. 

Read the original article on Busines Insiderer. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Copyright 2018.

Read next on Business Insider: 10 delicious and healthy dairy-free milk alternatives to try — whether or not you’re lactose intolerant

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25 Health “Facts” That Are Totally Wrong

There are some health “facts” that many people have heard so many times that they just assume they are true, ideas like “juice is healthy” or “gum will stay in your stomach for years.

But many of these “facts” are really myths about health.

Here’s what the science really says about these health myths.

There’s something about health and nutrition folk wisdom that’s resistant to truth.

Common health “facts” include the ideas that MSG will make you sick, that a juice detox is just what you need after a week of indulgence, and that sports drinks like Gatorade are totally fine since you need the electrolytes.

None of these things are true. They, like many other folk sayings and tips, fall into the category of health myths that are totally — or at least mostly — wrong. 

Here’s the truth behind some of those health claims you’ve heard all your life, but might not hold water at all.

MSG in Chinese food will make you sick.

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The myth that MSG is bad for you comes from a letter a doctor wrote to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968, where he coined the term “Chinese restaurant syndrome” to describe a variety of symptoms including numbness and general weakness.

But though the doctor blamed these feelings on monosodium glutamate, MSG, the research doesn’t back it up. The scientific consensus according the American Chemical Society is that “MSG can temporarily affect a select few when consumed in huge quantities on an empty stomach, but it’s perfectly safe for the vast majority of people.“

And this makes sense — MSG is nothing more than a common amino acid with a sodium atom added. The placebo effect is more than strong enough to account for the negative effects sometimes associated with MSG.

Coffee stunts your growth.

There isn’t a whole lot of evidence on this, but most research finds no correlation between caffeine consumption and bone growth in kids. 

In adults, researchers have seen that increased caffeine consumption can very slightly limit calcium absorption, but the impact is so small that a tablespoon of milk will more than adequately offset the effects of a cup of coffee. 

Interestingly, advertising seems to be largely responsible for this myth. A breakfast cereal manufacturer named C.W. Post was trying to market a morning beverage called “Postum” as an alternative to coffee, so he ran ads on the “evils” of Americans’ favorite hot beverage, calling it a “nerve poison” that should never be served to children.

Bundle up or you’ll catch a cold.

Being physically cold isn’t what gets you sick; exposure to a cold virus does. There’s no evidence that going outside with wet hair when it’s freezing will make you sick by itself — provided you avoid hypothermia.

But there are some scientifically sound explanations for why people catch more colds in winter. Because we spend more time in close quarters indoors, it is more likely that we’ll cross paths with a cold-causing virus spread from another person during the winter. And for several reasons, we may have a harder time fighting off cold and flu virus particles in winter.

But being cold itself isn’t what makes sick, and some argue that cold exposure can actually improve your health.

The chemical tryptophan in turkey makes you sleepy.

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Who doesn’t love the post-Thanksgiving nap? We frequently consider those naps inevitable, since turkey contains tryptophan, an amino acid that is a component of some of the brain chemicals that help you relax.

But plenty of foods contain tryptophan. Cheddar cheese has even more than turkey — and cheddar is never pointed out as a sleep inducing food. Experts say that instead, the carbs, alcohol, and general size of the Turkey-day feast are the cause of those delicious holiday siestas. 

Taking your vitamins will keep you healthy.

Vitamins sound like a great idea. One pill that can provide you everything you need to be healthy!

If only they worked. After decades of research on vitamins, most reviews don’t find any justification for our multivitamin habit, and in some cases, vitamins have actually been associated with an increased risk of various cancers. Malnourished people might benefit from some supplements, but most of us should just get our vitamins naturally from food.

Beer before liquor, never sicker; liquor before beer, you’re in the clear.

We’re all heard it: “beer before liquor, never sicker; liquor before beer, you’re in the clear.”

But while it’s very true that overdoing it with booze might leave you praying to the porcelain gods, there’s no need to place the blame on the order you consume the beverages in — alcohol is alcohol, and too much of it will make anyone feel sick.

However, there are some strange ways this piece of advice can make sense. People who switch from beer to mixed drinks (with senses and judgment already dulled) may be less likely likely to monitor their alcohol consumption and thus drink more.

And some research shows that your body metabolizes mixed drinks faster than higher-concentration alcohol (a shot of whiskey, say). So adding liquor to a stomach-full of beer could, in theory, create a sort of mixed drink that would metabolize faster than one or the other on its own.

We’ll call this one partly true, but chalk up the “never sicker” part mostly to bad decision making.

You lose 90% of your body heat through your head.

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Not necessarily. You lose body heat through anything uncovered, according to Dr. Aaron E. Carroll and Dr. Rachel C. Vreeman, authors of “Don’t Swallow Your Gum!: Myths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health.”

Your head is not special in that way — it’s just more likely to be exposed.

“Most of the time when we’re outside in the cold, we’re clothed,” Richard Ingebretsen, MD, PhD, told WebMD Magazine. “If you don’t have a hat on, you lose heat through your head, just as you would lose heat through your legs if you were wearing shorts.”

Wait an hour after eating to swim or you’ll drown.

Some parents say no swimming for 30 minutes after eating, some say an hour, but many of us may remember waiting out the clock before returning to the pool or beach. The theory behind this seems to be that digesting food will draw blood to your stomach, meaning that less blood is available for your muscles, making them more likely to cramp.

But there’s no evidence to support this claim. In fact, many sources say there are no documented cases of anyone ever drowning because they’ve had a cramp related to swimming with a full stomach.

Cramps do happen frequently when swimming, but they aren’t caused by what’s in your stomach. If you do get one, the best policy is to float for a minute and let it pass.

It takes 7 years for gum to digest if you swallow it.

When it got out that Trump press secretary Sean Spicer chews and swallows two and a half packs of chewing gum by noon every day, many people had the same question: Couldn’t that maybe do some harm?

Probably not. Gum is mostly indigestible, meaning that it usually passes through your intestines and exits the other side, like most of what your body doesn’t need and can’t digest.

“On rare occasions, large amounts of swallowed gum combined with constipation have blocked intestines in children,” Dr. Michael Picco of the Mayo Clinic writes. Still, he says swallowing gum generally isn’t harmful.

When you’re drunk on gin, you get mean.

There are plenty of alcohol-related myths out there, and the idea that different alcohols have different effects on you is a big one. Some people claim wine makes them sleepy while whiskey makes them want to argue.

In short, experts say this is bunk. “Alcohol is alcohol whichever way you slice it,” pharmacologist Paul Clayton, a fellow of Oxford’s Institute of Food, Brain & Behaviour, told The Guardian.

So why do people insist that tequila makes them crazy?

One very strong possibility is that we experience the effects we expect when we drink (or consume most substances). Scientific research going back to the 1960s shows that we “learn” how to behave while drunk, and that our actual drunken behavior is a direct reflection of our expectations.

Although many people may become violent while intoxicated, people who have never associated drunkenness with conflict don’t show the same behavior. So by that same token, if we expect that vodka will make us want to sing karaoke, we can perhaps turn that into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

A juice cleanse will ‘detox’ you after an unhealthy eating binge.

The myth of the juice cleanse is a stubborn one — and one frequently promoted by celebrities — but it’s both wrong and unhealthy.

First of all, your body naturally removes harmful chemicals through the liver, kidneys, and gastrointestinal tract — there’s nothing about juice that will hurry that process along.

Secondly, juicing is mostly a way of removing helpful fiber from fruits and vegetables — many sugary fruit juices are as bad for you as sodas. You’re making the fruit less healthy by “juicing” it.

Everyone should drink eight glasses of water a day.

Hydration is very important, but the idea that eight glasses of water is essential is a strange one. 

In healthy people, researchers haven’t found a connection between fluid intake and kidney disease, heart disease, sodium levels, or skin quality.

People get a lot of their water from foods and other beverages in the first place, but there is a good reason to drink more water. It’s a calorie free alternative to other beverages (especially sugary ones), and people who drink water instead of those beverages consume fewer calories overall.

But in general, drink when you are thirsty — you don’t need to count the glasses.

It’s fine to eat something if it’s been on the floor for less than 5 seconds.

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It’s the worst when something you really wanted to eat falls on the floor. But if you grab it in five seconds, is it okay?

Sorry, but the five-second-rule isn’t a real thing. Bacteria can contaminate a food within milliseconds. Moist foods attract more bacteria than dry foods, but there’s no “safe duration.” Instead, safety depends on how clean the surface you dropped the food on is.

Whether you eat it or not after that is up to you, but if the people that walk on that floor are also walking around New York City, for example, we wouldn’t recommend it.

Vaccines can be risky.

This idea comes from a now thoroughly-debunked (and retracted) study of 12 children that appeared in 1998 in The Lancet and claimed there was a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. 

It turned out that study wasn’t only flawed, it also contained false information that was necessary to make its point.

Since then, numerous studies that have analyzed data from more than a million children have shown that there’s no connection between vaccines and autism.

But fears about that connection have persisted, partially spurred on by public figures making false claims about vaccines. This has led to scary diseases like measles coming back.

Yogurt will help put your digestive system back in order.

This is one of our modern health myths. Yogurt is frequently marketed as having benefits for digestion and as something that’ll keep people slim because of probiotics, or the “good bacteria” that’s living inside it.

Researchers have found that the bacteria in our bodies are very connected to our metabolism and obesity rates, among other things, so it seems like there’s a logical connection here.

But we don’t yet understand how the trillions of bacteria in our bodies work well enough to manipulate them in this way. Despite the fact that the probiotic business was worth $23.1 billion in 2012, we can’t make yogurt that will repair our inner bacterial balance.

That’s not to say that yogurt is unhealthy, just that its benefits are oversold. Plus, a lot of yogurt is packed with sugar, which we do know contributes to obesity and other problems — so if you enjoy yogurt, find a version that isn’t full of additional unnecessary calories or it might have the opposite of the intended effect.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Apples are good for you, packed with vitamin C and fiber, both of which are important to long-term health, but they aren’t all you need.

And if certain viruses or bacteria get into your system, an apple will unfortunately do nothing to protect you. So go ahead and get that flu shot, even if you eat apples.

Eating ice cream will make your cold worse.

roboppy/Flickr

If you’re home sick with a cold, you can totally go ahead and comfort yourself with some ice cream.

The idea that dairy increases mucus production is very fortunately not true, according to researchers and a doctor at the Mayo Clinic, who says “in fact, frozen dairy products can soothe a sore throat and provide calories when you otherwise may not eat.”

Praise be.

Cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis.

Fortunately, this isn’t true either.

Cracking your knuckles may annoy the people around you, but even people who have done it frequently for many years aren’t any more likely to develop arthritis than those who don’t.

Starve a fever, feed a cold.

There’s a good reason you may have heard this said multiple ways, either “starve a cold, feed a fever” or “starve a fever, feed a cold.”

Despite a slew of headlines claiming that starving a fever wasn’t a myth in response to a tiny and largely misinterpreted study in 2002, there’s no real evidence to back this up. Limiting your caloric consumption may actually hurt your immune system more than helping it, and it would certainly be a bad idea to not eat during the 6-8 day duration of a cold.

Instead, doctors say to go ahead and eat if you can. The more accurate expression, as Scientific American notes, would be “feed a cold, feed a fever.” And make sure to get plenty of fluids.

It’s fine to drink sports drinks to rehydrate.

We all know that soda and similarly sugary drinks like lemonade are bad for us (right?), but what about sports drinks like Gatorade or Powerade? Sports-focused advertising has successfully convinced a whole lot of people that downing a bottle of this stuff is fine, especially if you’ve gone for a jog recently — it’s replacing electrolytes, after all.

But really, for most people the amount of sugar in these drinks is far more than is needed — even if you’ve been exercising. Lower calorie options, which many of the same companies have created in recent years, are much better options. Or just drink water. 

Drinking water can help you avoid a sunburn.

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady loves hydration and has said that drinking water helps him avoid getting a sunburn.

There’s nothing wrong with hydration. But there’s no evidence whatsoever that being hydrated can prevent you from getting burned by ultraviolet radiation in any way. Only sunscreen or clothing will do that. Go ahead and drink enough water to quench your thirst. But if you’re going to be out in the sun for a while, don’t forget to cover up.

Coffee and beer dehydrate you, since caffeine and alcohol are diuretics.

In sufficient quantities, caffeine and alcohol can have a diuretic effect. But the amount of caffeine in a typical cup of coffee or alcohol in a beer isn’t enough to really have this effect, according to one recent study. A moderate amount of either coffee or beer hydrates people just about as well as water does. 

Milk does a body good (and protects your bones)!

Guy Montag/Flickr

This is an incredibly successful bit of advertising that has wormed its way into our brains and policies — the US Department of Agriculture tells us that adults should drink three cups of milk a day, mostly for calcium and vitamin D.

However, multiple studies show that there isn’t an association between drinking more milk (or taking calcium and vitamin D supplements) and having fewer fractures. 

Milk is fine, but it’s not a magical health drink. Surprisingly, however, milk is particularly hydrating — similar to pedialyte, both even more hydrating than water.

You shouldn’t eat too many eggs, since it’ll raise your cholesterol.

Eggs have lots of cholesterol in them. For most of us, that’s not an issue, since a growing body of research shows that dietary cholesterol (from foods you eat) doesn’t really have much of an effect on blood cholesterol in the vast majority of people.

Thank goodness.

Eating fat will make you fat.

The tide has started to swing back the other way on this one, but recommendations for low-fat foods remain common. 

The decision to demonize fat for its caloric density and heart-clogging effects was largely the result of shady science influenced by a sugar trade group. It turns out that the society-wide decision to cut saturated fat from diets led to increased consumption of sugar and processed trans fats, all of which were most likely less healthy overall.

We need a moderate amount of fat — especially healthy fat — in our diets. 

Read the original article on Busines Insiderer. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Copyright 2018.

Read next on Business Insider: 10 delicious and healthy dairy-free milk alternatives to try — whether or not you’re lactose intolerant

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/25-health-facts-that-are-totally-wrong/

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Gyo Para

Introduction

Usually this is the spot in reviews where people talk about the things they were doing before getting to the restaurant. Mr. Noodle and I have agreed that neither of our lives are exciting enough to talk at length about, so instead we’d like to give you some background information about the restaurant, Gyo Para. Gyo Para is the reincarnation of a ramen restaurant from the nineties called Gyoza Paradise. It was opened in 1993 on Thurlow and Robson by the Aramaki family. Boy, how I’m sure that spot has changed over the years!

The concept was simple back then too-- serve a small selection of great ramen and gyozas. The son of the original owners has decided to continue to family business and works as the head chef at Gyo Para. They focus on using natural flavours and avoid adding MSG to their dishes. They also pride themselves in using the “Neu G7 Water Activation System” from Japan to purify their water, which they use as the base for their ramen broth. 

The Place

Gyo Para is located near the intersection of Broadway and Arbutus which makes it very easily accessible by the 99 B-line. We parked around the corner along arbutus, where you can often find free 2 hour parking on the street. The first thing you notice when you enter the restaurant is the large “gyoza paradise” painting from the original shop on the wall. It’s vibrant colours and nineties style really makes it stand out amongst the otherwise minimalistic and wooden decor. Unlike other ramen restaurants, the space is actually quite open, with a very large communal table in the center. That being said, the place can still only host at most 30-40 people.

When we got there, it was fairly busy, so we were sat at the bar. Although we know some people aren’t big fans, we actually don’t mind sitting up at the bar-- it brings us closer to the action. From our bar seats, you could see straight into the kitchen and there was a hanging tv playing a Japanese film on Netflix. The space behind the bar was a bit disorganized, with some dirty plates and rags waiting to be taken into the back. In all fairness though, the restaurant didn’t have many places where the servers could put things down to rest and it didn’t really bother us much.

The Menu

With a concise selection of five ramen you won’t have too many options to weigh before making up your mind. Gyoza and fried rice are available if you’re looking for something additional to snack on. I think it would be heretical not to order gyozas from a place called “Gyoza Paradise”, so we got ourselves an order of the pork ones. We don’t rate non-ramen items in our reviews, but we would definitely recommend getting an order if you have room! The gyoza skin was incredibly thin, but still crunchy and nicely caramelized from the frying. The filling was also very tender and juicy--- they were honestly really frickin’ good gyozas. Mr. Noodle also ordered himself a beer. They only have one draft beer, Kirin, which comes in 16oz for $4.75. There are also a few other drink options like hot tea and highballs.

The Ramen

I appreciate shorter menus, because I find that makes it easier for me to come to a decision. In fact, this decision took almost no time at all-- I was set on the Butter Corn Miso Ramen. Butter and corn are no strangers to the ramen world, but in Vancouver you rarely find them as toppings on a “default” menu item, but rather as sides that you can add. One can’t miss out on this sort of opportunity!

Broth: Wow. This broth was seriously delicious. If you haven’t had butter in your ramen before, the concept may seem sort of strange. There’s no reason to be intimidated though! Once the butter melts it gives this lush richness to the broth, with a warmth reminiscent of hearty comfort foods. Definitely worth a try!

I think Gyo Para uses a white miso in the broth, since the miso flavour is delicate and not too in-your-face. I think lighter miso was a good choice since it balances out well with the richness contributed by the butter. In addition, the broth wasn’t too salty nor too heavy which was just what I wanted.

Noodles: I try to be cautious when it comes to evaluating whether ramen noodles look hand-made or *store bought*. I don’t want to go around making any false claims! I’ll say instead then, that these noodles were fairly generic. They had that familiar yellow colour and standard thickness. They were pleasant to chew on but not quite al dente. It seems that there are a good handful of ramen places that use this type of noodle in Vancouver. They are not necessarily memorable nor anything particularly outstanding. Nevertheless, they get the job done and contribute to an overall enjoyable ramen experience.

Toppings: The Butter Corn Miso Ramen came with two pieces of chashu, green onions, seaweed (wakame), a few chopped vegetables (carrots and broccoli), and a sprinkling of sesame seeds. Oh, and a generous helping of corn and butter, of course.

I enjoyed my chashu. The pieces were soft, tender and about 1cm thick. Fat is gratuitously marbled throughout the meat, adding good flavour and richness to each bite. The corn was crunchy and slightly sweet, which was a nice contrast to such a umami-filled broth. I also liked the way the butter came in a beautifully rectangular slice, perched delicately atop the ramen.

I am definitely a vegetable person. However I found that the small pieces of carrots and broccoli didn’t really add much to the overall dish. There was only perhaps 2 or 3 thin slices of carrots and a random broccoli floret here and there, so their inclusion didn’t feel very purposeful. I wouldn’t have missed them if they weren’t there. Price: This ramen cost $11.95. I personally thought that this was a very fair price, and would happily pay the same again in the future. I  think that since butter ramen is harder to come by in Vancouver, this ramen warrants a “novelty” bonus factored into my calculation. Now, for some of you, the lack of an egg may be a setback but i think the price if justified even without it.

Presentation: I felt excited when my ramen was brought to our table. The bowl looked very appetizing and the yellow and greens caught my eye. The butter was placed delicately, still solid and unaffected by the steam from the broth around it. It was almost as if it was waiting for me have a first look (and take photos) before melting away gracefully into the soup.  The corn and sesame seeds seemed  a bit scattered in their placement, and I had a few stray wakame climbing up the walls of the bowl. But that’s me being nitpicky, this was definitely a solid bowl. 

Mrs. Noodle’s Verdict

Broth: 4.5 Noodles: 3.5 Toppings: 3.5 Price: 3.5 Presentation: 4

Mr. Noodle got himself the Shoyu Ramen. I’m actually surprised he didn’t get the cold ramen (they had a sesame flavour!) but he said he was in the mood for something hot and uncomplicated. Broth: This broth was very clean. It was thin and clear but still very flavourful. Mr. Noodles appreciated how the shoyu brought a subtle earthiness to the dish and didn’t think that it was overly salty or oily. He feels that the broth harmonizes very well with the noodles, but probably wouldn’t be a broth that he would drink straight from the bowl.

Noodles: The shoyu ramen used the same noodles as the noodles described above in my miso ramen. Mr.Noodle felt that they were a little bit on the soft side, and would have been perfect if cooked for just 20-30s less. 

Toppings: This ramen had very humble toppings: two pieces of chashu, half a ramen egg, menma, green onions and spinach. Mr.Noodle thought that the chashu was good although he would have probably liked to see more of the fat rendered out. There were two distinct lines of fat, which may be a bit unappetizing to some. He also felt that the meat could be a little bit softer. Otherwise, the chashu had a nice texture and flavour. As for the egg-- this was really good! The texture was perfect. Soft and runny, but at the same time not falling apart. Sometimes you get ramen eggs that are too fragile and disintegrate into the broth. This egg held itself together well and was Mr. Noodle’s favourite topping of the dish. 

As for the other toppings: the spinach added a nice green colour, but didn’t have much flavour. The slight crunch was appreciated though! The menma was pretty average, similar to most other menma we’ve had. Finally, the green onions actually brought a really nice freshness, which definitely elevated the flavour of the ramen.

Price: The Shoyu Ramen cost $9.45. Part of the single-digit club! Mr. Noodle thinks that any ramen under $10 is incredibly reasonable, and this one is no exception. One would probably expect to pay around $11-12 at other restaurants for a comparable ramen. $9.45 is very fair for what you get, especially since an egg is included and you get two pieces of chashu. Presentation: This ramen was fairly simple so there weren’t too many components have to think about. Everything was organized neatly and overall looked very appetizing.

Mr. Noodle’s Verdict

Broth: 3.5 Noodles: 3 Toppings: 3.5 Price: 4.5 Presentation: 4

Conclusion

Piece of Vancouver history. We never got the chance to try the original, but very glad we got to visit version 2.0. Will be back!

Gyo Para Gyoza & Ramen Bar 2120 W Broadway Vancouver, BC V6K 2C8 604-288-2941

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Rating: 3.8 Ramen Eggs

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Week 8 Writing Assignment Jae Ahn

Austin

·      Buffalo Chicken Wings

o   Spicy sauce made with jalapenos and bell peppers

o   Ranch dressing with nondescript black dots, white and creamy looking

o   Dropped off with the green celery right next to it

o   Interestingly enough, the chicken looks kind of dull without the bright red sauce all over it

·      Cuban Sandwich

o   Mustard seeping through

o   Can see the two different meats layered on top of one another

o   Fancy sandwiches are always surrounded by vegetables, but don’t really have many vegetables in the actual sandwich

·      Steak wrap

o   Lettuce the same color as the wrap, which is green

§  Why do green wraps exist? Does green flour just exist in normal everyday society

o   Took it with chips

o   Meat is cold – why is cold meat okay to eat but not raw meat? Chemical processes for cooking are really interesting

·      Chinese food

o   It’s always interesting how airports seem to mess up things as simple as lo mein – why are the noodles like cafeteria food

§  Cost benefit analysis – probably to make money

o   Chinese food also looks and smells so good, but tastes really bad

§  Lots of MSG, oil

  Chicago

·      French fries

o   Greasy, definitely interesting that they chose to keep these crinkle-cut

o   Why do restaurants choose certain styles of fries?

o   Are there actually fresh French Fries, or are all of them from frozen packages?

o   What type of restaurant uses fresh French Fries?

·      Chicken Nuggets

o   How come they look so plastic? I feel really self conscious when eating these – it seems like my life is not put together.

·      Chicken wings

o   Finally, something that I made that I could be proud of! I honestly don’t feel that proud that I’m eating chicken wings though if we are being frank

o   I just broiled my chicken wings – the skin seems flabby, but the seasoning tastes great

o   I feel like lots of food is just added seasoning

 ·      Chicken breast

·      Hamburger

·      Pasta

·      Pho

·      Korean rice cake

·      Subway Sandwich

·      Crab rangoon

 New York

·      Korean rice with seaweed roll (kimbap)

·      Spicy rice cake

  Interestingly enough, I think part of this project gave me motivation to write my own final project. As a result, this took me time to write. I think that I really wanted to attract attention to how almost every major city seems to have indistinguishable traits if you walked into a building in any one of these major cities. It’s also interesting that as the world seems to globalize and use more resources, cities seem more homogenous. I was going to write something in the perspective of 4 different people that have had different experiences, but witness the almost global effect that cities have in terms of pollution – one in New York, one in Chicago, one in Austin, and one in Palo Alto. These are all places I could write about simply because I have visited them at one point or another this quarter. I think in all of these places, I’ve witnessed pollution in different ways. I also think that the way global warming as well as how uniform production is in these two areas might be something I would be very interested in writing about.

I wrote some details about the things I ate, but I couldn’t do it for all of them – I did it for those that were most relevant that definitely motivated the piece.

   II.

 Sun rises up in Austin – it’s a wonderful seventy-two degrees Fahrenheit outside. Xavier gets up at the Hilton, surrounded by the meal he ate for the late dinner he ate last night. Room service is the same no matter what hotel you really go to. Soda cans are neatly stacked next to each other by the tray, which is heaping with dirty plates. Neon orange can be seen on the plate, which decorates two very sad-looking pieces of chicken. The only thing to light the room is the sun coming in from the window overlooking the sprawl of downtown Austin. After all, that’s what woke Xavier up in the first place. Noticing the reek of buffalo wings, Xavier almost pukes – it smells so artificial. He takes the room service tray with the half empty soda cans and buffalo wings and quickly places them outside of his room, expecting someone to take it away. He had such an important meeting today, after all – this is what he was in Austin for. The 15th Annual Healthcare Conference at the United Healthcare Headquarters was going to determine whether he would be able to sell any of the inhalable insulin that his firm had created. After all, he needed to make quota to save his life. “And in the process, maybe I’ll save some diabetic’s life,” he snickered to himself.

 “Lots of interesting things that are saving people today in life sciences…” The man droned on about the fluorescent slides projected onto the white screen. Xavier could not care less – he just wanted to go home to Omaha, where he could finally lay in his own bed, in his own home, and watch his own TV.

  “We have seen rates of diabetes go up by 5% year over year, almost in correlation with GDP growth…” Xavier is counting down the time by tapping his pen, just waiting until he can talk about his product and then leave. The first presenter sits down as the next one comes up, as the same style of Powerpoint slides come on. The next topic is about environmental health – what a bore to Xavier. He has to keep reading the slides and pretend to take notes in this room so that he could enjoy the benefits the conference has to offer for him. The hotel, the free food, as well as the time away from actually working at the office. Yet, almost nothing in the United Healthcare headquarters seemed any different – the conference tables were still the same metal tables covered with yellow tablecloths, the cubicles looked exactly the same, and the research department even worked in a similar area. In fact, nothing was different besides the Austin heat searing through the windows amidst the dried trees around the building. Nothing really felt that different to Xavier, he realized with a sigh. He got up to go to the bathroom as the man continued to drone on about how diabetes patients still struggled with cures