Asia's Promising Stars: Erich Sollboeck

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Sourdough Bread Has Most Health Benefits

Even though it’s made from white flour, sourdough bread has a relatively mild effect on blood sugar compared to other white breads. Sourdough is an ancient bread with thousands of years of bread-making history behind it. It has a distinctive taste, the result of lactic acid produced by bacteria used to ferment the dough. A sourdough “starter” is made from a combination of yeast and bacteria growing in a paste of flour and water. Some is used for making a loaf, and the rest is saved to grow and use for future baking.

"Not all bread is created equal. The type of toast you eat for breakfast can affect how your body responds to lunch", a University of Guelph researcher has discovered.

Prof. Terry Graham studied four types of breads to determine which had the most positive health effects when it comes to carbohydrate metabolism, blood sugar and insulin levels.

"There's an urban myth that if you want to lose weight, you shouldn't eat bread," said the human health and nutritional sciences professor. "But the truth is, bread is one of our biggest sources of grains and has a number of healthy benefits."

"With this study we wanted to find out which breads are better so that we can optimize the benefits by combining them into one type of bread."
Graham and a team of researchers examined how contestants responded just hours after eating the bread for breakfast and again just hours after eating a standard lunch.
"With the sourdough, the subjects' blood sugar levels were lower for a similar rise in blood insulin," said Graham, whose findings are to be published in the British Journal of Nutrition. "What was even more interesting was that this positive effect remained during their second meal and lasted even hours after. This shows that what you have for breakfast influences how your body will respond to lunch."

Visit Erich's Backstube right next to the sausage kiosk (Wuerstelstand) and give it a try. You'll be surprised how delicious sourdough bread is!

It's tasty, it's moist and so much healthier than all these white breads you get in town.

Beautiful Singapore

5 More Days!

Hungry ghost festival

Today is the start of the Hungry Ghost Festival, a traditional Chinese festival and holiday celebrated by Chinese in many countries. In the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh lunar month (14th in southern China).

An array of foods being offered to the deceased at a Buddhist temple

In Chinese tradition, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is called Ghost Day and the seventh month in general is regarded as the Ghost Month, in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm. Distinct from both the Qingming Festival (in Spring) and Chung Yeung Festival (in Autumn) in which living descendants pay homage to their deceased ancestors, on Ghost Day, the deceased are believed to visit the living.

On the fifteenth day the realms of Heaven and Hell and the realm of the living are open and both Taoists and Buddhists would perform rituals to transmute and absolve the sufferings of the deceased. Intrinsic to the Ghost Month is ancestor worship, where traditionally the filial piety of descendants extends to their ancestors even after their deaths. Activities during the month would include preparing ritualistic food offerings, burning incense, and burning joss paper, a papier-mache form of material items such as clothes, gold and other fine goods for the visiting spirits of the ancestors. Elaborate meals (often vegetarian meals) would be served with empty seats for each of the deceased in the family treating the deceased as if they are still living. Ancestor worship is what distinguishes Qingming Festival from Ghost Festival because the latter includes paying respects to all deceased, including the same and younger generations, while the former only includes older generations. Other festivities may include, buying and releasing miniature paper boats and lanterns on water, which signifies giving directions to the lost ghosts and spirits of the ancestors and other deities.

Engrish Test for Singaporeans

Engrish can be quite difficult!

GUTEN TAG

MUSTARD, CHILLI, KETCHUP??? JAWOHL!!!

1860Lions in the Lion City

Gerhard and Diane setting their mark at Erich's Wuerstelstand

Once a "Lion" always a "Lion"

Gerhard and Diane

Just for the record - thanks for visiting see you Guys

The Great Singapore Sale Is Still On

Enjoy up to 70% discount on just about everything, everywhere. From the central shopping belt of Orchard Road and Marina Bay to the Southern Waterfront and suburbs, you’ll find fantastic value on fashion, watches, jewellery, electronics and more!

After a exhausting day of shopping stop by at Erich's to recharge your batteries with his delicious sausages, meat loaf and breads.

See you there!

Skike the new on and off road skater from Austria

Do you want an all body work out where you engage about 85% of your muscles?

Get on "skikes"! Singapore has plenty of areas where you can exercise e.g. East coast park, Mc Ritchie, Sentosa, just to name a few.

Skikes will be available soon in Singapore!

For more information visit our website: Skike.com. Or follow us on Facebook
Skikes are available in over 25 countries worldwide and are about to take off in the USA as well.

Check this out: a NBC news report about skikes in New York city.

A extra Fruehschopperl

It's about afternoon in Chinatown,-when four Austrians just woke up and needed some kind of fruehschoppen.
Understandable,life is not easy in the tropics but a Stiegl bier helps a lot to endure the heat.
So the 7th Fruehschoppen was born out of desperation by the participants fron 3 states in Austria

NIEDEROESTERREICH (wo ferien noch ferien sind)

WIEN (ist ein Koenigreich und drum herum is Oesterreich)

STEIERMARK (steirer man a very gut und das sogar ohne hut)

a perfect three state triangle (manche sagen auch pyramide-und oben drauf sitzt der wuerstelmann)

The participants

(and we are not in the name dropping business)

everybody knows them!!!!

Quality control
So how? Its the way to do it

Creating a master piece

It has been done-and that before night fall

documented

the next one will be no 8 (lucky number)

So when?

FIRST VISIT at the WUERSTELSTAND

At the tender age of 1month and 3 days, Michael Carlos has set a mark for himself to be the youngest to visit Erich's Wuerstelstand

and who are the proud parants???.....

pls see below

yes that's right,it is Roberto (Mr. To) and Ngoc with Grand ma in the middle

Mama To - MiniTo-Mr.Toall the best to Roberto and Ngoc

Friday night in Chinatown

from right-Joe Palme "der Dokeraner", Christa and Josef aus Waidhofen / Ybbs - Lower Austria

on Friday the 13th night in Chinatown

Visitor from Austria

Before arriving at Erich's Wuerstelstand,the Kurier report about A hot sausage at the Equator made a long trip on the high sea from Hong Kong to Singapore.
Thank you Franziska for the nice touch to bring along the report .Thank you

2nd row: Kurt,Heidi,Franz
1st row: Lotte,Franziska

Visitors in the past few days

Silvia and Hans-on the way back from Australia

A "Steirerman" named Mathias with a price tag and a lot of hair in the face.(look like who?)

Franz and Michael

Jessie,Hubert's sister,Hubert

Clemens Schausberger

Special Delivery

Armed with Kremser Senf and the latest publication about the last sausage kiosk before the equator-in Austria Kurier arrive less than a month after print

and guss who are the two who carried it all the way?

clue-look at the frequentis sign

tarra here we are-

of course Helmut and Heinz. Thank you guys and see you soon.

Birthday "boy" HEINZ

To make a surprise visit even more special,Heinz celebrated his birthday at Erich's Wuerstelstand on 1st March.
Everything was planned in secret by Helmut including the yummy Punschschnitten and candles Olga had packed .


Erich had no clue what happen,but decorated the birthday" cake " with the candles-and guss what

forgot to put the stand first- nevermind it worked and 4 wunder candle found their place on the typical Austrian sweet

and now the light up

It really worked - what a surprise

OK

now for the cake presentation ceremony

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEINZ-and many many happy return.

btw- the most number of consecutive birthdays celebrated at Erich's Wuerstelstand stands at

3,

and is held by Reinhard the sailor.


But now back to our current celebration . make a wish and blow.................. the candle

blow harder the flame is still burning

still not hard enough

ok now you did it Heinz

with a little magic even candle burn longer

The cake was super and erich got only a half (because of the rum content) yummy and the other half went to Stanley (who eat anything he can get hold of)

later -Justin and Mr. Tan dropped by for a little chat

Thank you Helmut for the organizing

Thank you Heinz and may we celebrate next year again.

GREETINGS to FUERSTENFELD in STYRIA

Family Domweber from Fuerstenfeld in Austria

on their visit to the last sausage kiosk before the equator

to say hallo to Erich and QC the LKW mit ABS

foto taken from a high position-standing on a chair one leg crossed by "Schneckerl" Peter from upper Austria
his picture will be posted soon.

Member of the Austrian state delegation visiting Singapore and Erich's Wuerstelstand

mit vielen gruessen ins Burgenland