Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Useless parts of a human's body

i was skimming through the Live Science website when i came accross an interesting article..
it's about the top 10 useless limbs or vestigial organs of any living being..
then out of this ten... four came from us human...

the first one... the human tailbone
according to the article, tailbones in any animals are meant for balancing.. but for human, the tailbone is just to small to do any balancing....i was said that this tailbone is a vestigial limb from our ancestors. as they started to walk straight, the tailbone shrinks until it reaches the size like wat we have.

the second useless part...wisdom teeth
wisdom teeth is said to be useless and only brings pain. wisdom teeth is considered to be vestigial because in the past, our ancestors have bigger jaws so it fits more teeth.. also dental hygiene was not important in the past... so having extra teeth maybe useful to replace the rotten ones. but now, we brush teeth more than twice a day and visit the dentist a few times in a year, wisdom teeth became useless.

the third useless part... male breast tissues and nipples.
men do not need to go through breast feeding and men's nipples do not cause much sexual stimulation...so according to the researchers, they are useless. however, men have breast tissues because during the early stage, a foetus is sexless. only in the later stage, then the sexual organs developed determining whether it's a girl or boy. despite the fact that male breast tissues are pretty useless, they may be harmful because both male and female may develop breast cancer.

last but not least... the appendix
appendix is useful for herbivors for digestion... but for humans, they are just useless.. according to a paleontologist, appendix do play a major role..... as a financial support for surgical professions. other than that, it's just useless... also, appendix maybe dangerous to as it has brought a lot of deaths

after reading these, i realised that it's rather true...

Monday, September 10, 2007

Causeway Bay Hong Kong Restaurant

went to this restaurant with my family for lunch recently. it can be said quite a new restaurant cause it's opened only one or two months ago. there were so many people.. for the past three times i've been there, still there's a lot of customers. this restaurant belongs to the Lok Thian tauke... really arr.. this tauke is very innovative. he just brings in restaurants of different styles. there's hong kong style, shanghai style, japanese style, thai style and even the new one... indonesian style.



the entrance of the restaurant. this man just spoils the picture... he knew i was taking photo but he still walk past. look at the chairs in front. the tauke knew that this restaurant would be a great success so he provided "sit only" chairs for the customers to sit while waiting for the real "sit and eat" space.







getting to feel being in Hong Kong... but actually cannot larr...






people mountain people ocean... all enjoying their meal





this restaurant has got the modern design... really attracts people.


see all the food posters!!! and the lighting.



we ordered many types of food...



drinks first... we ordered jasmine tea and coffee. coffee was normal but the jasmine tea is unique!!


this is the most unique serving i've ever seen. made me felt like a frog..


then to the main courses...

mushroom chicken mee... quite big portion

hong kong style ham chicken porride with century egg.. NICE!! ordered two portions of this

third one

hot pan sizzling chicken noodle with black pepper sauce..

and last...

baked fish fillet rice with cheese... i like this most...ordered this everytime i come

we also ordered a few side dishes...


their famous dim sum.. siew bee and...


char siew bau... soft and fluffy when hot but when cold, harder than grade A brick... just joking!! i pretty much liked the bau.. eaten four out of the six we ordered.

besides char siew bau, we also ordered char siew puff..


didn't get to eat this cuz it's my mum's favourite... eaten zero out of six... sixkening

lastly and i mean to be the very last....


sago tart. this... i have no comment... i like it but my mom dislikes it.. it's delicious but difficult to eat. the sago drops out from it's cup.


anyway, i like the food there... should give it a 69.5% rating.. and the service also ok... at least no sour papayas. all together, everything cost my dad around 70 bucks..