Shocking!! Study Finds Chinese Fast Food Unhealthy

[RedHot25]

Am I the only one that has a good laugh when they see this?

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/200...nese-food.html

(for me its about the "fast food" part of it...I am not classifying all Chinese food)

[burn_baby_burn]

Once in a while I'll go with some work collegues for all you can eat Chinese buffet. A look at some of the morbidly obese people in there, is enough to scare you into eating healthy.

[Burninator]

How come Chinese restaurants are so westernized? Obviously in China their food isn't this unhealthy. So how come when Chinese people come over here their food gets the extra serving of salt? Unless I am going to all the wrong places, but is their a place that sells normal health Chinese food?

[HelloHockeyFans]

Originally Posted by Burninator

How come Chinese restaurants are so westernized? Obviously in China their food isn't this unhealthy. So how come when Chinese people come over here their food gets the extra serving of salt? Unless I am going to all the wrong places, but is their a place that sells normal health Chinese food?

Real chinese restaurants. If your food takes shorter than 15 minutes to come out, chances are it's not that healthy. Like RedHot said, it's the "fast food" part that is a good way to gauge whether or not the Chinese food you are about to eat is healthy or not.

[Bobblehead]

As the saying goes, "All-you-can-eat is not a challenge"

[RedHot25]

Originally Posted by HelloHockeyFans

Real chinese restaurants. If your food takes shorter than 15 minutes to come out, chances are it's not that healthy. Like RedHot said, it's the "fast food" part that is a good way to gauge whether or not the Chinese food you are about to eat is healthy or not.

Yah, and in fairness the article talks a lot about fast food in general. Although the title of my thread is the title of the article.

[fanforever1986]

They had to do a study to find this out?

[burn_baby_burn]

Originally Posted by Burninator

How come Chinese restaurants are so westernized? Obviously in China their food isn't this unhealthy. So how come when Chinese people come over here their food gets the extra serving of salt? Unless I am going to all the wrong places, but is their a place that sells normal health Chinese food?

Head to China Town. I have an aunt who is Chinese. The restaurants she takes us too are alot differant than say Signapore Sams.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

As the saying goes, "All-you-can-eat is not a challenge"

Depends on who you are! People gave up challenging me to all you can eat chinese buffets. Thankfully too, because I seriously needed to lose weight. One thing that I don't eat so much anymore is chinese food. I was never certain if it was the frequency of chinese food as well as the amount or just the amount of chinese food I ate. Looks like it was both.

[Hack&Lube]

Eating at "real" Chinese restaurants hurts me. It really does. Because I'm Chinese and I see people unaccustomed to them come and try to order food but they are totally lost on the menu and the waiters are useless.

Real chinese restaurants are meant for group dining, at least a party of 5 or more. It pains me to see a couple sit down and order something they don't understand and get a single serving of vegetables, etc. and then they labour through it and then pay a high price. More often than not, I have heard caucasian people say: "that was terrible!".

Real chinese food is meant to only be served banquet style. The dishes are all very different and compliment each other but are never meant to be eaten alone or without tea, rice, soup, etc. and dishes all in the proper order. Please don't visit a real chinese restaurant if you are in a small group, you will be very disappointed. It's also not a meal with great presentation or any modern touches whatsoever, as that's not chinese tradition. Don't expect something nice and set like in a Japanese restaurant or a fast food restaurant.

If you want a semi-restaurant/fast food Chinese experience, you can try Hong Kong cafe type places like Sun Chiu Kee on centre st. or Pebble Beach by the old Franklin Mall (Pacific Mall now) that are more like normal western dining. Personally, I only like this kind of Chinese food. The big banquet type Chinese food (New Harbour, Regency Palace) isn't something I like eating either. It's just not to my taste so likely not to yours either. For those types of restaurants, I only really like Peking Duck, the rest I can easily live without tasting again in my life.

[Reaper]

This part made me chuckle and brings to light the increasing role the food industry has on obesity.

"Some restaurant food has gotten a lot worse. Companies seem to pile on. Instead of just cheesecake, you get coconut chocolate chip cheesecake with a layer of chocolate cake, and lasagna with meatballs."

[Fozzie_DeBear]

Real chinese food rules (well some of it anyways...I can do without tripe and chicken feet, but that is my hangup), I never knew how good eggplant was until I had it Chinese style...I have yet to find a great place in Calgary but Buddy WonTon's in Edmonton is usually a very very good restaraunt...

[burn_baby_burn]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Eating at "real" Chinese restaurants hurts me. It really does. Because I'm Chinese and I see people unaccustomed to them come and try to order food but they are totally lost on the menu and the waiters are useless.

Real chinese restaurants are meant for group dining, at least a party of 5 or more. It pains me to see a couple sit down and order something they don't understand and get a single serving of vegetables, etc. and then they labour through it and then pay a high price. More often than not, I have heard caucasian people say: "that was terrible!".

Real chinese food is meant to only be served banquet style. The dishes are all very different and compliment each other but are never meant to be eaten alone or without tea, rice, soup, etc. and dishes all in the proper order. Please don't visit a real chinese restaurant if you are in a small group, you will be very disappointed. It's also not a meal with great presentation or any modern touches whatsoever, as that's not chinese tradition. Don't expect something nice and set like in a Japanese restaurant or a fast food restaurant.

If you want a semi-restaurant/fast food Chinese experience, you can try Hong Kong cafe type places like Sun Chiu Kee on centre st. or Pebble Beach by the old Franklin Mall (Pacific Mall now) that are more like normal western dining. Personally, I only like this kind of Chinese food. The big banquet type Chinese food (New Harbour, Regency Palace) isn't something I like eating either. It's just not to my taste so likely not to yours either. For those types of restaurants, I only really like Peking Duck, the rest I can easily live without tasting again in my life.

That is how I was exposed to it. My Aunt had a bunch of relatives from Hong Kong visiting in Vancouver. We were there visiting as well. About 40 people in total. Plate after plate came out. I thought it was great. I really made a pig of myself.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

3 words.

Da peen low

[Ironhorse]

So where does Dim Sum figure into all of this? Is it considered a lunch "fast food"?

[SpitFire40]

The worst is Chinese food in the States... ewww

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Originally Posted by fotze

I think it depends where. In New Jersey my inlaws order from these places that are mixed. Chinese/Japanese places where the chinese is nothing like here. Not so greasy. The japanese is the same but chinese is not. Maybe because China is such a mammoth country that whoever settled in different places around the worlkd influenced the cuisine there.

Maybe for being arses with the whole building the railroad thing, this was the only way they could get back at them (whiteys). Giving them explosive diahrea and making the food addictive so they keep coming back. Like forcing a little brother to punch himself.

That's why we have Ginger beef as our main weapon of choice. We create it for the whiteys

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by fotze

I think it depends where. In New Jersey my inlaws order from these places that are mixed. Chinese/Japanese places where the chinese is nothing like here. Not so greasy. The japanese is the same but chinese is not. Maybe because China is such a mammoth country that whoever settled in different places around the worlkd influenced the cuisine there.

Maybe for being arses with the whole building the railroad thing, this was the only way they could get back at them (whiteys). Giving them explosive diahrea and making the food addictive so they keep coming back. Like forcing a little brother to punch himself.

It's because China is a big place and people from different regions of China ended up living in different regions in North America. They then had to adapt their already regional foods to the regional tastes of the areas.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by fotze

Now that stuff I don't like. I think they take what didn't sell the night before, keep it in a big vat of oil then re-cook it the next morning.

Those Pork Balls! At least in hot dogs the lips and arseholes are ground up fine enough to not distinguish them. Those things you can see the lips and ears and arseholes. Plus they pretty much shoot out your backend after swallowing them because they are so full of grease.

hmmm what an interesting picture you present. Siu mys shooting out of your arse. hahaha.

I only like dim sum once every 2 months. So much meat in everything you order. Plus it's superloaded with MSG. You would have to drink 10 pots of tea to counter that.

[STeeLy]

Originally Posted by TheyCallMeBruce

3 words.

Da peen low

Should the "p" be more like a "b"... sounds more like bean I'd say?? (Sorry... HK born and raised... I have a habit of doing what I just did, no offense) and I do support that... by far the best times I've had... especially if I don't sit at a table with the parents a big holiday gatherings

Personally, I've never really liked Chinese fast food at all, but thats mainly because I'm Chinese myself and accustomed to actual Chinese food. Real Chinese food aren't meant to be greasy and stuff like the fast food is and if you only eat fast food, then u're not exposed to the food that actual Chinese people eat.