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I am pleasantly surprised every time I try a new Chinese food (Mala Tang yesterday for example) but with all the oil they use in all the dishes, how healthy is all of this? I would assume Japanese people live so long because the foods they eat are oil and fat free. Any nutrition experts here?
The other week my mother in law cooked dinner and lunch for us, nothing unusual in this, except we happened to have a 500ml bottle of oil on the kitchentable. In doing so she used 250ml of oil.... This is in my humble opinion WAY too much.
However, oil and fat might not be your prime enemy in the fight for longevity.
- The quality of food
- Eating rice and noodles all the time, certainly isn't good.
- Poor handling of food (e.g. raw food put on the floor, no refrigeration etc)
Most of it I'd say. And if it isn't unhealthy then I'd say it isn't especially healthy. Noodles etc are a lot of empty calories. For example, I love eating fish here. But it is often cooked in a sh*t ton of oil so I think the health benefits of the fish fade in comparison to the amount of oil you ingest.
Pretty much everything. Just think about in what soil the veggies are cultivated and what water they get. Talk about pesticides? Fruit? Pork and chickens? Pounded with antibiotics. Fish? Clear waters in the ponds.... Seafood in shell, not even to mention. Milk? We all know. Oils? Same thing.
Arrrghhh.......
Are you fair dinkum??? The food must surely be the unhealthiest in the whole world!
What a heap of crap it is....salt and oil, oil and salt. And MSG. Why the huge doses of these things? Because the food is crap and their brains think the only way of giving it any flavour is to bombard it with oil, salt and msg.
It really is unbelievable...Thai food, Vietnamese food is right on their doorstep. Japanese food just over the way. Indian food down and over there, just south of Tibet. Chinese food is, at best, passable. But 95% of it is not at level of best. That means that only 5% of it is at a level above slop. Unhealthy, tasteless slop. Except for the dishes that have 25,000 chili kernels in them...at least they have taste. But taste that disguises the slop of the reality.
My God.....at this point in time I reckon I'd even give up sharpening my pencil just to wrap my laughing gear around a bloody good pie!
andy74rc:
I cooked some cabbage tonight, same way as we do in my place. First boiled in water and then chopped and quickly pan fried with butter and garlic + a pinch of salt, pepper and Parmigiano cheese. It did taste literally like a fart compared to the one back home, of which, I have a very clear memory having had it not longer than 2 weeks ago.
BTW, it's winter food usually served along with fresh pan fried sausages, polenta, and good glass of red wine.
Yup, most of them are unhealthy. Especially when eaten in the amounts that a Westerner eats. Chinese people seem healthy but in reality they just don't eat so much. That could be it...