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Older Generation Interview

Interviewer: Irfan
Interviewee: Maimunah

Q: What is your favourite traditional food?
A: My favourite traditional food is 'Gado-gado'.

Q: Do you know the history of your traditional food?
A: It came from Indonesia.

Q: Why do you like that food?
A: I t is appetizing and nutritional.

Q: Do you know the ingredients of your favourite traditional food?
A: Of course. They are; vegetables, fried crackers, tofu, potatoes, peanuts, 'tempe' which is fermented soya beans and more.

Interviewing The Younger Generation

Interviewer: Haziq
Interviewee: Fadhil


Q:You like Ketupat, but do you know the history of it?
Response: I don't know about the history, I just eat it.

Q: When is ketupat usually eaten?
Response: Usually it is eaten during Hari Raya or any other malay festivities. Sometimes people also eat ketupat with satay.

Q: Why do you think the ketupat is wrapped with leaves?
Response: To keep it together so that it does not seperate while boiling. I think it has also got to do with the smell or fragrance.

Q: Have you ever made a ketupat before?
Response: Yes, I sometimes help my grandmother to make ketupat before Hari Raya. It is very fun but also quite challenging. When you wrap the ketupat, it is like solving a Rubik's Cube

Conclusions
- Most of the younger generation do not know the history of their favourite food or traditional food. They just enjoy what they are eating. But, some of them are curious and are willing to find out about it.

Interview on Traditional Food ( Rice Dumpling )

Older Generation

Interviewer : Jensen

Interviewee: Francis

A Rice Dumpling without cover

A Picture of the rice dumpling




Q1. When was Rice Dumpling usually ate?
Responses. During Dragon Boat Festival which is the on the fifth day of the fifth month of the chinese calendar.

Q2. What is the story behind rice dumpling?
Responses. When Qin Dynasty general Bai Qi took over Chu capital , Qu Yuan's grief was so intense that he drowned himself in the Miluo River.Dumpling were than thrown into the river to prevent fishes in the river from eating his body

Q3. What is the traditional filling for the Rice Dumpling?
Responses. Meat , Mushrooms and groundnuts

Q4.Why is the rice dumpling ate?
Responses. It is eaten to commemorating the death of Qu Yuan , a famous Chinese poet from the Kingdom of Chu who lived through the warring states period.

Conclusions
Usually eaten on the fifth day of the fifth month to commemorate the death of Qu Yuan and that normally filled with meat , mushrooms and groundnut

Attitude of people today towards traditional food
Some of them do not bother finding the history of the food they like

Interviewing The Younger Generation

Interviewer : Alexander
Interviewee : Josephine

Q1 when you eat traditional food, do you bother to know its history? Why?
Responses: No i don't. There is no point as finding out its history is not important because I think that there is no use in finding it anyway.

Q2 If you knew the history of tradition food , woukd you tell them to other people ? Why ?
Responses: No. I would not or perhap sometime . Most people do not care so I have no reason to tell them . In Fact , the history of traditional food is not so important to me

Q3 Which religion's tradition food do you perfer most?
Responses: It can be any religion as I go for the taste of the food rather than the religion of the food . I don't think anyone would only prefer one religion's food as I think many people would want to try more new foods .

Q4 Do you know any history of a traditional food? How did you get to know it?
Responses: Of course. I do know alot of chinese traditional food historys in fact , there is too much to write down . I get these information from family members , friends , classmates , schoolmates as well as teachers.Sometimes I get these information when they share their stories with me .

checking research findings:
To get more people to know more about the history of traditional food, one good possible way is through interactions with people around from different races.

Attitude of people today towards traditional food:
They think it is not important and say that there is no reason why they should care at all.

Growing Bread Moulds

Day 11...Just in case it needs one more day. But nothing grows...

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The Pictures above are pictures that had no sunlight and kept in ziplock bag for 10 days




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Above is the bread that is kept in a Ziplock bag and left

on the table to grow mould for 10 days!

Exploring further

Harmful effects of consuming too much acid
-Cause the gums to become more swollen

3 types of acidic food
-Plums
-Cranberries and Blueberries
-Prunes

In some instances, our stomach may produce excessive acid.
Below is a suggestion what a person may consume to treat this problem.
-milk

PH for some samples

MOULD

What is bread mould ?
It is fungus growing on decaying bread.

What are the similarities and differences between bread mould compared to plants and animals ?
- Bread Mould does not make food like animals but plants can make food
-All 3 needs water to survive,

Where and how should bread be stored to keep it free from moulds ?
Its should be store at room temperature in a cool , dry place . Refrigeration speeds up staling.However , in hot , humid weather , bread kept more than 2-3 days should be refrigerated to retard mold growth.

What other foods do you think might grow moulds if left exposed?
-cheese

Suggest 3 ways of preserving food without the use of refrigerators?
- Storage
- Drying
- Canning
Simple storage is, by far, the oldest method of preserving food. It's also the easiest. Perishables to be kept by this process are merely placed in a cool, dry environment such as a cellar or specially-constructed hole in the ground. Only a limited number of fruits and vegetables can be preserved in this fashion, however, and only for a limited period of time.

Dosai for dummies

Just a video about dosai

3 Other blogs

There are a lot of bloggers blogging about food, and we mean thousands of them, but we have chosen 3 blogs that have interested us:



http://www.makansutra.com/index.php

http://www.moblog.com.sg/group/home.asp?gid=BF5D672F-0ED7-4326-9659-B7E83CE9D332

http://www.hungrygowhere.com/

Bad Habit That People Do While Eating

-People like to talk and eat at the same time.
-People often slurp while drinking soup.
-childrens loves to bang their utensils together to make funny noises.