Green Queen’s Top 10 Ways To Use Coconut Oil Every Day
Coconut oil is incredibly versatile and can replace dozens of products in your kitchen and bathroom shelves. Below are ten easy ways to use this amazing oil every day. Just make sure you buy the raw, extra virgin, unprocessed kind…
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Green Queen Living: Wet Market Series Part 6 – Guide to Chinese Dried Goods (Gon Fo)
The sheer variety of dried products sold in Hong Kong wet markets is staggering. Not only do each and every one of them have special health benefits, they are really handy because they last forever (well, almost!), so no waste! Below…
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Green Queen Foodie: Azure Restaurant Slash Bar Gets Its Veg On
Green Monday. If you haven’t heard of the vegetarian movement sweeping Hong Kong, where have you been? Stop hiding under that rock and get on the bandwagon…every restaurant in town is on board! And why not? Encouraging meat-free diets on…
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100% Vegan, 100% Gluten-Free, 100% Refined Sugar-Free, 100% Addictive Almond Granola Recipe
Be gone box of cereal with your ridiculous amounts of sugar! Be gone highly processed grains! Be gone additives and preservatives! Today we share with you an addictive homemade almond granola perfect for breakfast, snacking and even post…
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Green Queen Living: Wet Market Series Part 5 – Guide to Chinese Tofu Products (Dou Fu)
The Chinese have been making and consuming tofu in all its various forms for more than a thousand years! Tofu, also known as beancurd, is made from soya beans. High in protein, low in fat, and most of all, relatively cheap when…
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Green Queen Heroes: Chef Moises Mehl of nood food
Tell us about nood food and its mission.
For years, health foods have sat on the margins, with people thinking they are either too expensive or too complicated to understand. nood food is here to simplify the concept of healthy eating.…
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#UmbrellaRevolution: The Greenest Protests In The World
Hong Kong does not top greenest city lists very often. But during the past few days, the ever-practical and respectfully ecological mindset of Hong Kong people has become inspiringly apparent. The people of Asia's world city have captured…
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Green Queen Living: Wet Market Series Part 4 – Guide to Chinese Herbs & Spices (Heng Liu)
Star Anise - Baat Gok
This star-shaped herb has a sweet and refreshing taste, and a strong liquorice aroma. Though not as common in the daily family diet, Cantonese people love cooking meat dishes with it- it works very well…
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Are You Eating Too Many Fruit-Vegetables?
Fruits are natural, nutritious and delicious right? This is what we have been taught. But what is a exactly is a fruit? And why are they so yummy, exactly? Green Queen clears up common misunderstandings after an in-depth chat with our…
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Healthy Snacks: Superfood Protein Crunch Balls of Goodness Recipe
This quick and easy recipe for Holy Crap Balls of Goodness are super crunchy, delicious and packed with powerful protein and nutritious superfoods. They’re perfect for your pre/post workout snack, your little one's afternoon snack, a…
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Green Queen Living: Wet Market Series Part 3 – Guide to Chinese Root & Tuber Vegetables (Gan)
Missing the dozens of varieties of potatoes you used for your spud-tastic recipes back home? Why not give these Asian starch stars below a try? They make great and nutritious substitutes for the ol' spud and with our guide, using them at…
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Green Queen Living: Sleep Deeply – Alice Mack of the Food Doctor London Shares Her Best Tips
Almost everyday I get asked: "If I should do just one thing to be healthy, what should it be?" Each month, I send you one of my answers. This month, if you do one thing: SLEEP DEEPLY.
Waking up from a nine-hour sleep…
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Beef & Lamb – The Whole Grass Vs Grain Fed Debate
If you have shopped for beef or lamb recently, you have noticed the sheer prevalence of labels popping up on various types of meat. Should you go for Australian grain-fed beef or Welsh organic lamb? What do all of these labels mean for…
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Green Queen Living: Wet Market Series Part 2 – Guide to Chinese Melon Fruits (Gwaa)
In Cantonese cuisine, melons, gourds and cucumbers are all considered to be "melon fruits, " where we consider them to all be members of the gourd family. They can be intimidating to foreigners with their strange textures and shapes…
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Stop Food Waste At Home Guide: How To Save Your Herbs, Fruit, Greens & Leaves
Food waste is a huge problem globally-over 30% of all food produced is wasted across the planet. Be part of the solution with our our useful ideas for how to make use of everything in your fridge and how to avoid food waste, especially…
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Green Queen Giving: Animals Asia Foundation
This month we spent some time getting to know the Animals Asia Foundation and the work they do to help protect our animal friends.
How was Animals Asia Foundation started?
Animals Asia was founded by Jill Robinson, MBE in 1998 –…
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Green Queen Foodie: Fish & Meat – Farm to Table Pioneer
What is the farm to table concept? In the most basic sense, it’s about eating locally: growing your own produce then cooking it at home. Or if you are a restaurant, connecting your clients with locally-sourced produce and artisan…
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Green Queen Living: Wet Markets Series Part 1 – Guide to Chinese Leafy Greens (Choy)
We are extremely excited to launch our new seven part series all about the local Hong Kong Wet Markets. There is nothing more green than connecting with your local community and enjoying the local produce but sometimes, the language…
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Why You Should Avoid Canned Foods
Food has been preserved in cans for nearly 200 years, and its popularity has never ceased to increase. What could be more convenient than opening a can of soup for a quick meal? Well, there’s a dark and dirty secret about metal cans…
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Green Queen Recommends: Healthy Cooking Classes in Hong Kong
Want to eat more vegetarian food but out of inspiration? Heard about kefir but have no idea how to make it? Dying to stock your fridge with homemade raw chocolate? Wish you knew how to make your own yoghurt? Desperate to bake some gluten…
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Green Queen Living: The Definitive Guide to Rice
Rice is a staple across much of the world, especially in Asian countries like China, Japan, India, the Philippines and Korea, where most people don't go a day without eating rice during one of their meals. But how much do we…
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