Recently we had dinner at Fish & Co Restaurant on the ground floor facing Gurney Park Condominium and the garden of Gurney Plaza. This restaurant serves top notch seafood with excellent service. The waiters are young and good-looking. I ordered a seafood combo of fish fillet, grilled prawns with luscious white tartar sauce, chips and saffron rice with raisins and a slice of lemon. It also has calamari or sotong but I asked for more prawns instead of the high cholesterol calamari.

Photo 1 shows my seafood combo while photo 2 shows the 3 types of sauces of white mayonnaise, raw chopped garlic and chilly sauce. Since raw garlic is supposed to prevent cancer, I asked for additional helping and the waiter kindly obliged with several rounds. Photo 3 is a closeup of the prawns with tantalizing white sauce sprinkled with green herbs. Photo 4 was what my partner ordered consisting of fried dory fish fillet and potato chips. You will notice that in this restaurant, all food are served in steel frying pans straight from the cooking stove. It is kind of ingenious to serve this way with obviously bigger portions of everything. The food tasted good and bids me to come back everytime I walk past Fish & Co. Due to the price, we occasionally dine here but not everyday. Otherwise, it may burn a hole in my partner’s pocket. Just joking!

The first time I dined in this place, after paying our bills, we were given 2 mints and a free velvet coin wallet in the shape of their logo, a fish. My sisters dined one time and got an attractive writing notepad. It is not always that they give out souvenirs but if they like you, they will give you something to remember after payment.

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Curry could help improve mental agility and stave off Alzheimer’s disease. It is thought that curcumin, the part of the spice turmeric which gives curry its distinctive yellow color, was responsible for the effiects. Dr Tze-Pin Ng from the National University of Singapore, who led the research, told New Scientist magazine it was remarkable “that apparently one needs to consume curry once in a while” to improve mental performance. Previous research has suggested curcumin inhibits the build-up of amyloid plaques – harmful protein deposits – in the brains of those with Alzheimer’s disease.

Moreover, compounds found in curry and onions may help prevent colon cancer in those at risk. Patients with pre-cancerous polyps in the colon who took a pill containing a combination of curcumin and quercetin, an antioxidant found in onions – experienced a marked reduction in both the size and number of polyps.

The potential of  curcumin to prevent and/or treat cancer in the lower intestines surfaced in studies in lab rats fed curry, as well as observations of Asians who consume a lot of curry. Quercetin has also been shown to have anti-cancer potential.

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