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Q: Do you eat a ridiculous amount of eggs since living in China?
My breakfast usually starts with a pancake/bread thing with egg. Lunch is usally egg-tomato noodles or egg fried rice, and evening dinners usually also have some sort of egg in it. I'm worried about my cholesterol!
I like getting the 'zhou'(rice porridge) along with eggs at KFC for breakfast. I also love the 'cha ye dan' (tea leaf egg).
I have to. It's the only way to get some half-way decent nutrition around here.
Yes - in fact I have started eating an eggstreme amount.
Eggs is the breakfast of champions. I have at least one fried/scrambled/boiled egg for breakfast along with whatever else is on the table.
If I cook lunch for myself I will often make fried rice or noodles, including some egg.
It's not just chicken. Right now our fridge has quail and duck eggs too.
I would rather a lot, in fact it's become my main source of protein since I'm not always willing to try the meat here!
Yes, but to control my cholesterol intake, I boil the eggs then remove the egg-yolk, especially at night.
Yeah, I ate a lot more eggs in China, but don't worry about your cholesterol. There are newer studies that have proven that dietary cholesterol doesn't really have an effect on blood cholesterol levels. In fact, we need cholesterol, and eggs are also a good source of choline. Enjoy!
No, I eat the same amount "zero", but I do have to be careful as they sneak eggs into many dishes. Nothing worse than biting in to boazi and finding egg.
Yes, I thought I was the only one! I eat a lot more eggs here than back home, maybe because they're cheap and it's one of the "normal" foods that are easy to find.
Nope not me! I usually have egg for breakfast but that's not even all the time. I actually ate eggs only a few times for breakfast. I usually eat bread!
I've had this conversation with a coworker recently. According to her, the average beijinger eats at least two eggs a day including boiled eggs for breakfast and from other sources such as soup or pastry type foods. Jnusb416 is right though; some recent studies prove that the cholesterol contained in eggs does not lead to having bad-type cholesterol in your body (could apparently be because of the other nutrients also present in the yolk). Anyways; Chinese people don't seem to mind and live pretty old so it can't be all that bad, right?
"the average person in China consumes 122.2 kg of eggs per year, adding up to approximately 40 billion eggs consumed by the nation in total."
http://www.echinacities.com/expat-corner/Add-Eggcitement-to-your-life-A-...
I'm still learning metric, but that seems like an awful lot of eggs.
Double the amount, I love eggs with tomatoes, eggs & green peppers, eggs & onion, eggs & green beans ect... never ate this back home.
No, actually a lot less - the taste is sometimes 'kind of weird'. I'm a certified cook and I think that I know how eggs should taste... But again, this is China 
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I eat a lot more eggs since my apartment is inside the university campus, and they make cheap ones that don't taste too rubbery. And dietary cholesterol does not give you high blood cholesterol, same as dietary fat does not actually make you fat (so long as you stick within your calories).
I only eat higher quality organic eggs, but that's still not fullty safe.
Obviously there are the cases of fake eggs, but the worst are generic eggs, they can be extremely hazardous to the health of anyone who consume them. They aren't produced the same safe way as in the West. Chicken are fed with toxic waste and given harmful products to accelerate the eggs delivery. Great way to get cancer and other complicated diseases.
