So brain boxes...Is eating at a chinese take-away fattening?

Question

If so,why are people of chinese ethnic always slim?

Answer 1

If you think that Asian food is a low fat option, you're right - kind of. Authentic Chinese food is extremely low in fat and cholesterol. A recent study showed that the Chinese population living in China had around half the cholesterol level of people in the western world.

There are plenty of low fat Asian dishes to order and the best advice is to use common sense. The two main culprits in Chinese are the sauces - most Asian sauces are oil based and this accounts for much of the fat content - and the method of cooking, which is often deep-frying.

However, stir-fried vegetables are on almost every menu, and combined with steamed rice can make quite a low fat meal. Asian cooking can also include high levels of salt, especially in soups and soy sauce. A lot of dishes are deep fried so steer clear of those and opt for dishes that are grilled or steamed.

Try Ordering: Steamed fish, steamed vegetable dumplings, won ton soup, and steamed vegetables and noodles.
Avoid at All Costs: Peking duck, sweet and sour pork, fried dumplings and fried banana.

Answer 2

Haven't been to any Chinese for the last four years now. but if I go there, I don't eat anything that I don't recognize. Most food that I eat if I go, are sea foods,ie shrimps, fish. But you never know. I cooked all my foods knowing that it is clean. Even vegetables, unless it is home grown, has to be cleaned due to insects and sprayed chemicals (pest killers). This is a joke, but my father used to say. If you ate something and it doesn't cause stomach pain, it is good. Yea right---lol--. You know what, in Florida they ate gator meat, and some of the food store here sells shark meat? We used to catch Sharks with fishing net. We let it go if it's still alive. We throw it in the fire if it is dead. We never ate it.Anyway, I heard all this before, so I am very careful if I go to any Chinese restaurant... Don't order anything that has a meat in it...

Answer 3

I don't think so look at the chinese now Amercin chinese is a different animal flavored rice and such is fattening but your hungry in a couple hours...in america the then to put much sugar and salt into food..

Answer 4

Yes very because they cater for western tastes where the food is sweet, flavour enhanced with MSG and deep fried.
Chinese people rarely eat what they serve us!
China and Japan never had an obesity problem until McDonalds opened over there!

Answer 5

the Chinese food served in the US has been "Americanized" in a way... I'm sure that, at the very least, our Chinese food has a lot more sauce than the Chinese regularly eat in their own country.

Answer 6

because the "chinese" we eat in america isn't what they eat. The food we get is all fried and fatty, but only if you go to an authentic place will you get the real stuff.

Answer 7

Yeah of course. What isn't fattening in some way.

Answer 8

the chinese food served at the take -outs are laddened with sugar. if they served the food the way the chinese ate it, americans would complain.

Answer 9

its all deep fried, oils very fattening, if you ever notice when the emplyee eats its white rice, raw fish, noodles and the chicken by its self not mixed in the crap they serve us, but it very tasty thou

Answer 10

Yes it is fattening and they are skinny because they don't eat what they serve us.