Just choose one of the following options, says nutritionist Kohila Govindaraju
• Yong Tau Foo (Hakka dish)
Make it healthier still by choosing bee hoon, mee sua or kway teow (100-140 calories) instead of yellow noodles (200 calories per 100g of cooked noodles). Limit the intake of crab sticks, fish balls and cakes, and fish-paste stuffed veggies, which are loaded with sodium (15g of fresh fish comes with 10mg of sodium compared to 15g of crab stick with130mg sodium). Add fresh green veg to your bowl instead.
• Sliced fish porridge
• Penang laksa/Asam (tamarind) laksa, a sour based soup (This has no coconut cream and no egg. The thick white laksa noodles are garnished with sliced fish, pineapple, mint leaves, onion and lettuce. Better not slurp down the soup though, for a serving contains roughly 2,287mg of sodium.)
• Indian dosai
Choose plain dosa (97 calories with 2g fat and 264mg sodium) instead of masala dosai (363 calories with 13g fat - saturated fat 5.8g - and 778mg of sodium)
• Economic food (rice with two vegetable side dishes or rice with a meat dish and two vegetable dishes)
• Thunder tea rice (a Hakka dish – rice, chopped vegetable, tofu, peanuts, dried shrimp and anchovies (ikan bilis) served with green tea soup with blended herbs – basil and mint.
• Sliced fish noodle soup
• Steamed pork with lotus/steamed sliced fish with home-made sauce/steamed tofu/ steamed vegetables with white or brown rice.
