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23 MAY

Bird's nest soup and the Bird Flu scare

anakmerdeka.blogspot.com Bird Flu High Alert has been declared in Indonesia since the outbreak caused the first death in July this year. Should Malaysians be concerned, especially since we are seeing increasing interest in commercial birdnest farming in our towns and cities? So far the virus had killed 65 people in 4 Asian countries since late […]

23 MAY

“Bird's Nest – Glossary of Chinese Ingredients and Cooking Terms”

chinesefood.about.com Glossary Definition: Authentic bird’s nest soup is made using the nests of the swiftlet, a tiny bird found throughout southeast Asia. Instead of twigs and straw, the swiftlet makes its nest from strands of gummy saliva, which harden when exposed to air. Once the nests are harvested, they are cleaned and sold to restaurants, […]

23 MAY

Corwin's Carnival of Creatures

animal.discovery.com Swiftlet Also known as Black-Nest and Edible-Nest (or White-Nest) (Aerodramus maximus and Aerodramus fuciphagus) Order: Apodiformes Family: Apodidae I. DESCRIPTION: • The swiftlet is a cave-dwelling bird. • It is dull brown or gray in color, and paler on the rump and underpart. Swiftlets grow to be 3 1/2 to 6 inches long (the […]

22 MAY

Cliff swallows and the power of behavioral ecology


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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 January 2; 98(1): 16–17.

Copyright © 2001, The National Academy of Sciences
Lee Alan Dugatkin*
Department of Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40208
*E-mail: lee.dugatkin@louisville.edu.
It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the lapse of ages.
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22 MAY

Bird's Nest — A Chinese Delicacy at the Niah Caves

< !-adsense--> thingsasian.com By Wah Heng Like many Malaysians of Chinese descent, I tasted the bird nest soup at a tender age. This is a Chinese delicacy that cuts across all provincial, national, geographical and other divides separating the two billion Chinese found on Planet Earth. In the 1950s, most Chinese wedding dinners (worthy of […]

19 MAY

Bisnis Bergengsi dari Rumah Model Kuno


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Bisnis ”air liur” Burung Walet bukan sembarang bisnis. Konon pada pertengahan abad XIX ketika pertamakalinya Burung Walet dibuatkan rumah, hanya para ulama yang menyediakan rumahnya untuk tempat tinggal Burung Walet.

Sekalipun Burung Walet ini termasuk burung liar dan lebih memilih tinggal di goa-goa di pantai Selatan , tetapi para ulama di Sidayu mampu menyediakan tempat tinggal. Dari hasil penjualan sarang Burung Walet ini, mereka tidak memungut biaya kepada para santri yang belajar mengaji.

“Para ulama sudah merasa mendapatkan penghasilan yang melimpah dari air liur Burung Walet. Penghasilan ini diyakini merupakan rezeki dari Tuhan,” kata pendiri Asosiasi Peternak dan Pengusaha Sarang Wal;et Indonesia, Drs H.A.Khoiruz Zaman, MM yang juga pengurus Yayasan Kanjeng Sepuh, Sidayu, kepada Pembaruan belum lama ini.
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