Party Noodle at Bulgogi Brother...

Hihi... I'm back with food... hehe...

This time I visited Bulgogi Brother. This is my second time there and still, I would like to say the menu choices are so limited, unless you are going there for the BBQ. Each ala carte will be served with refillable Korean side dishes. And often, you tends to stuff yourself with the delicious side dishes before moving on with your main dishes, just like me.. hehe... Opps, forgot to take the photo of the side dishes.

One thing that I notice after I visited so many Korean restaurant, they serve a lot of carbohydrate when you order the rice and noodle menu. The carbohydrate amount is so huge, while the protein content is far lesser. The situation will be different if you order BBQ, that will be a lot of protein, but lack of carbohydrate and vegetables. 

This time, I ordered Party Noodle. Here is the photo of my food. 

One big bowl of glass noodle with salty clear soup. Nothing much protein inside, only the tofu pok is available, and of course, some small little vegetables inside. As you can see from the photo, the carbohydrate content is so huge, that most of the food itself is the noodle. It filled up the whole big bowl after mixing up everything. 

What a large portion of carbohydrate they served! For those diabetics out there, beware of what you are eating!

But there is one thing that I like the most -- the corn tea... I like tea and corn tea definitely give you another unique aroma which is different from Chinese tea and Japanese green tea. Hard to describe here, but as I know, not everyone will like the taste of it. Hehe... 

饮食治疗师 与 营养师

饮食治疗师和营养师是两个不同的行业。

在马来西亚，饮食治疗师通常就业于医院。饮食治疗师，顾名思义就是专攻于治疗饮食问题的一门专业。

如果你在医院看医生，医生会针对你的病情，配一些药给你拿回去服用。那饮食治疗师和医生差不多一样，饮食治疗师会针对医生对你的看诊以及病况，配食物和餐单给你，让你能调整饮食，加快病情的康复。

简单来说，医生开药单，饮食治疗师开餐单！吃药固然重要，但现今普遍的疾病都是些慢性疾病 （例如糖尿病，高血压，高胆固醇），病人需要好好控制饮食才能真正有效地控制病情。

当医生负责为病人看诊时，那饮食治疗师就负责病人的饮食，教育并指导真确的饮食习惯，让病人们能够减低所谓的三高（高血糖，高血压和高胆固醇），以及三高带来的各种疾病例如心脏病，中风等等。

饮食治疗师也会针对病人的各种饮食问题，然后加以改善。如果您吃多了，当然需要控制食量，那如果您没有胃口或面对饮食不均衡的问题，饮食治疗师会配些营养健康食品来补充病人的身体需求。

饮食治疗师拥有饮食治疗临床训练，通常就业于医院，体育学校等等。而营养师通常就业于纤体公司，营养健康食品公司，营养研究室，食品工厂等等，两者大不同喔！简单来讲，饮食治疗师看病人，而营养师则看健康的人。

对于在选择科系的学生们，要好好把这两个不同的专业分清楚。如果你喜欢饮食治疗临床经验，可以接受在医院工作，那你可以选择饮食治疗课程。如果不喜欢，那你大可选择营养学。两者出路也还蛮广的，随大家喜欢吧！

如有疑问，欢迎留言，大家一块讨论讨论。。

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Dietitian vs Nutritionist

Dietitian and nutritionist are different professions.

For those from Malaysia, you will only see dietitian in hospital. Dietitians are those who are trained to give diet education and counseling regarding diet control for those who are diseased.

For example, patients with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, high cholesterol will be referred by doctors to see dietitian in diet clinic. Diet education will be given to patients so that their diet will be able to controlled as a supplementary treatment for the disease itself apart from seeing doctor and taking medicine.

Dietitians will see patients mainly with chronic disease as those diseases are closely related to diet and nutrition. Dietitians provide education on diet control, or may be I should say dietitians incharge of everything related to diet.

Dietitians see patients with malnutrition, either undernutrition or overnutrition. For those who are not eating well, dietitians provides tips and solutions in order to increase intake and improve patients' intake. This includes providing oral supplements or plan for tube feeding regime for those who feed through tube.

While for those who suffered from overnutrition, education is given on how to control intake, how to reduce weight and provide information of foods that should be avoid for certain health problems.

Dietitian normally treats patients but nutritionist works with healthy population. Therefore you can find a lot of nutritionists out there working in various sectors such as slimming centre, nutrition company, lab, food production company, factory, so on and so forth.

However, most dietitians work in hospital, of course there are also dietitians who leave the medical line and join for sales. But I wondering whether they are still recognised as dietitian after leaving medical line.

Hope this helps to clarify the difference of dietitian and nutritionist. For students out there, be careful when choosing course since dietitian is different with nutritionist. If you like diet & nutrition and are more interested in treating patients in clinical setting, then dietetics will suit you more. If you do not like clinical setting, or working in hospital setting, I believe nutrition course is better for you.

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