The cuisine served at Tao Garden Resort is modeled on the Taoist Five Element Nutritional Theory. With some similarities to Macrobiotics, the food is considered in terms of Yin and Yang in various ways. For example, acid-alkaline, cooling-warming, building-cleansing.

Our Pakua clinic staff and the tests we offer there can help each guest to establish where they may be out of balance, and then food can be taken according to need.

In addition to the balance of Yin and Yang, Taoist Nutrition also considers the harmony between organ systems (the same as used in Traditional Chinese Medicine). Different foods are advised for each organ system, either cleansing or strengthening that element.

Our Pakua Five Element Nutritionists can help to guide each guest for this. We also a Five Element Astrology chart reading. This can show our constitution, and which organs systems may tend to be weak or strong. Thus the chart can be used to help guide foods to help one’s constitution.

Tao Garden has produced a book in which the theory is outlined, The Tao of Delicious, by Chi Gung Master Mantak Chia and Taoist Nutritionist Shashi Solluna. Many of our most popular recipes are included in the book, each with an analysis in terms of Taoist Nutrition. To accompany the book, we have created a CD-ROM which contains detailed lists of different foods and their energetic properties according to Taoist Nutrition. It can be used as a reference to check up on particular foods, or you can search by organ system (element).

For the first one hundred copies of The Tao of Delicious sold : you will also receive a free CD-ROM
of the “Element Nutrition Charts. Click here to order online.

Here is a popular recipe, taken from The Tao of Delicious: