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Q: Do you eat uncooked garlic?

I know some people from north China eat uncooked garlic.

I can not handle that at all. it's like,oh man,I smell a funk. LOL

what about you guys?

 

11 years 26 weeks ago in  Food  - China

 
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sorry, I can not eat like that way

I have been to north one time for about 10 days, after back to south, I found I lose weight..ah ah

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yeah,, when I eat the lanzhou la mian...   i nibble on a clove or two...

 

and I certainly eat it cooked all the time,,, it enhances most any dish to my taste !

 

   well, maybe not so great in my morning oatmeal...   Tongue

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Sometimes...but i think there is a reason the locals cook everything here...including lettuce.  Even in Canada I buy Chinese garlic sometimes (they are flooding the market)...but "Chinese"  garlic raw?   I think not for obvious reasons.

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I kind of got addicted to in back in Shaanxi. Hurts so good.

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Sure...Chinese should eat more raw things....carrots, cucumbers , tomatoes..

 

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Sure, always i eat fresh garlic, and many other vegetable. It took 3 years for my wife to understand, that many vegetable can be eaten fresh Smile

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My girlfriend eats salad now...but picks through it hahah, cant handle onions or green peppers yet LOL

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My parents were from Spain, and I was raised with garlic used as a condiment in many meals.  So, you may say I do eat garlic in what may be consider by some as "a lot" or too much.

Eating garlic is very good for your health, if interested you can Google the benefits of eating garlic.  For this purpose, it will be sufficient to say that it is excellent for its benefits to the immune system and its ability to fight infections. In addition to helping the immune system, garlic has a number of positive effects on heart health. The University of Maryland Medical Center explains that garlic can lower cholesterol levels and lower blood pressure. Garlic also has some anti-cancer properties that can help to prevent cancer and also reduce cancer symptoms in cancer patients.
Read more at: http://www.livestrong.com/article/340975-what-are-the-health-benefits-of-raw-garlic-vs-cooked-garlic/#ixzz2Euhs1ucZ

I myself do eat 5 cloves raw every day, plus use a few extra as condiment with onions and pepper for my meals.  I do grant you it is a develop type of taste,m because raw garlic has a strong one, but you can get used to it, and learn to like it.  I did.  And after the raw garlic, I do have a glass of OJ, and a cup of coffee, and I am good for the day.

Garlic is also very good in the prevention and treatment of common colds, among many other health benefits.

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everyday in the morning, empty stomach you can eat 4 cloves of Garlic..it has been proven that not only it will control your blood pressure but also can make you free from Blood Pressure problem in 6 months through natural way.

It is really very difficult to eat raw garlic therefore i generally eat before cleaning my teeth because after brushing you can refresh your mouth ..

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do you have a source for that ? 

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Yes, I eat diced or minced fresh garlic in my salads and a few other dishes. I love it. However, taking a bite out of it like an apple, is not something I do unless I'm on a dare.
My bf and I were having Korean bbq once, he took a bite out of the garlic and he almost died from the strong taste. True story. Well, he was chocking is more like it. Lol

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I eat raw garlic often. While   it is fine neat,  I most love raw garlic cloves that has been marinated in vinegar. I can just pick it out of the big jar with chopsticks and munch on it.

 

Great crushed raw with soy sauce, vinegar and ground chilies in oil as a dumpling dipping sauce

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wow,it seems you guys obsessed with Raw garlic. LOL interesting

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Yes, i like it. It goes well with some different foods. And there are health benefits to eating garlic.... as well as the added bonus of keeping vampires away.

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I eat a little bit of raw garlic with a meal a few times a week. In Korea, they eat tonnes of raw garlic.

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Sorry but I don't each much raw garlic at all unless it is used in a salad dressing.

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I forgive you.

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Thank you Kchur but I cannot and will not ever forgive you....devil

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When I was a kid,  my grandmother would give us crushed garlic, raw, when we were sick.

In Puerto Rico, ha ving been part of Spain for more than 400 years, we use a LOT of garlic in our cooking.

That is why  you will NEVER see a Puertorrican vampire...

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I live in the North East and that and vinegar have put me off of just about every other dumpling restaurant in the city. I can't stand it.

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I like the strong feeling of the raw garlic. lol........ It means health.

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Not exactly the same thing, but I was forced to eat pickled garlic last CNY. It was strong has hell, and I almost threw it up. Copious amounts of baijiu managed to keep it down though.

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Of course, I do. It's healthy and recommended. I am the only one at my school who eats uncooked vegetables. It took 5 month for the chef to taste my row salads and see how does it taste like. He's still in the process to digest the meaning of my way of eating vegetables. Everything here it has to be cooked. When he saw the way I prepare my own salads, he would say: "No good". I eat chicken sometimes and fish, but my common dishes are the salads. They still cannot understand how do I make it through the day with one dish of row salad, seasoned with some sesame and olive oil. 

Then I think about the cows that are so strong and they eat only grass. 

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Two years ago, I worked at Summer Camp with decent fellow, FT from Canada, butt...he had alcohol smelly breath at the start of the classes every morning.

I told him, I can smell he was drinking last (every) night, and he should pay attention to his breath odor.

 

We worked together with Chinese teachers, and they certainly paid attention to us, FT. Salary at that Camp was (is) extremely high, so nobody wanted to lose that 30 days work.

I suggested, he should start talk with Chinese teacher in the morning as: 'Do you like garlic? I love garlic!', and so on.....so Chinese teachers would think, he was enjoying garlic, and not booze night before. There is not big difference between garlic breath and booze breath smell.

 

Unfortunately, garlic advice didn't worked out for the Canadian dude. He didn't get rehired following year.   

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