#Bean Sprouts

[reasonsforhope]

"Of South Korea’s countless kilograms of annual food scraps, very few will ever end up in a landfill. This is because of two reasons—the first is that it’s been illegal since 2005, and the second is because they have perhaps the world’s most sophisticated food waste disposal infrastructure.

While representing a significant burden on the economy, the food waste disposal nevertheless produces ample supplies of animal feed, fertilizer, and biogas that heats thousands of homes.

As the New York Times’ John Yoo and Chang Lee reported from Seoul, South Korean cuisine tends to lend itself to creating food scraps, since many staple dishes come with anywhere from a few to a few dozen sides.

With the culture erring on the side of abundance rather than restraint, many of these small dishes of tofu, kimchi, bean sprouts, and other bites would be tossed in the landfill if it wasn’t illegal to do so.

The government put the ban hammer on it because the mountainous terrain isn’t ideal for landfill construction.

Instead, restauranteurs and street hawkers pay the municipality for a sticker that goes on the outside of special bins. Once filled with food scraps, they are left on the road for collectors in the morning who take 90% of all such waste in the country to specialized collection facilities.

At apartments and among residential housing areas, hi-tech food waste disposal machines are operated by a keycard owned by residents under contract with the disposal companies.

Once taken to the recycling facilities, the food is sorted for any non-food waste that’s mixed in, drained of its moisture, and then dried and baked into a black dirt-like material that has a dirt-like smell but which is actually a protein and fiber-rich feed for monogastric animals like chickens or ducks.

This is just one of the ways in which the food scraps are processed. Another method uses giant anaerobic digestors, in which bacteria break down all the food while producing a mixture of CO2 and methane used to heat homes—3,000 in a Seoul suburb called Goyang, for example. All the water needed for this chemical process comes from the moisture separated from the food earlier.

The remaining material is shipped as fertilizer to any farms that need it.

All the water content is sent to purification facilities where it will eventually be discharged into water supplies or streams.

While one such plant was shut down from locals complaining about the unbearable smell, many plants are odorless, thanks to a system of pipes built into the walls that eliminate it via chemical reaction.

It’s the way South Korea does it. Sure, it costs them around $600 million annually, but they have many admirers, including New York City which hopes to implement similar infrastructure in the coming years."

-via Good News Network, June 15, 2023

[morethansalad]

Delicious Homemade Vegan Pho (Vietnamese Noodle Soup)

[vegan-nom-noms]

Vegan Bibimbap

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Indonesian Gado Gado Salad with Peanut Sauce

[kawaii-foodie]

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[selinaeliott]

Broken cucumbers in Chinese

[seasonalwonderment]

~ Seedlings ~

Image via This Is My Garden

[anime--food]

Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san - Episode 4

[photozoi]

Mr Mung singles out his wrestling opponent. Fava!

Challenge accepted!

Check out the foot action! She's up!

She's down again!

No, she's up and climbing!

Little sister Zuki saves Mung! She races by and disrupts the game.

Thanks, Sis! Wanna wrestle???

Three Bean Salad, Mr Mung, Fava and Adzuki Bean. Silken Windhounds, 10 weeks.

[buffetlicious]

Mum wanted noodles so we went back to XO Minced Meat Noodle (XO 肉脞麵) at Sembawang Shopping Centre. She decided to go with the S$4.50 bowl of Lor Mee (卤面). Came with braised pork bellies, half a braised egg, bean curd roll and fishcake slices drenched with dark brown gravy thickened with corn starch plus a crispy dumpling and tempura bits.

First time ordering the S$6.50 Tom Yum Mini Pot Noodle (冬炎小碗面) which came with a soup pot with food candle underneath and noodles in a separate bowl. A spoonful of the soup jolted up all the taste buds with that sourness and spiciness. The noodles are springy and the crunchy of tempura bits add to the different overall textures.

[shirozen]

Good rest for healthy sprouts

[fieriframes]

[Thai basil, fresh cilantro, shredded carrots, bean sprouts, and hoisin. Give these guys some of our braising liquid. He was tired of seeing his family only in dreams. ♪♪]

[morethansalad]

Green Curry Rice Noodle Soup (Vegan & Gluten-Free)

[invoke-parlay]

A bean sprout for the first four days of its life: an adventure

[fattributes]

Hu Tieu Ap Chao

[kawaii-foodie]

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