Chinese Food

[higgies]

Hey there!

does anyone have a place on the web or anything that has good nutritional information for the usual Chinese dishes?? I've been having an incredibly difficult time finding this. I know it varies from restaurant to restaurant, but for the most part these places use the same type of recipes for Americanized dishes I imagine. Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks!

[boonie stomper]

Re: Chinese Food

When you make your own Chinese dishes, you know exactly what you put in. The variety of "Chinese" dishes you can cook up is practically endless! I was warned here at ADBB a few months ago, however, that Chinese restaurant food is likely to be loaded. Even meats and stir fry veggies frequently have added sugar or starch.

Here's one place to look:
http://www.dietfacts.com/search.asp?...ese+restaurant

[not2late]

Re: Chinese Food

Nope. You might find something for PF Chang's.

Different restaurants use different recipes for their sauces etc. That's why some dishes at restaurants taste slightly different. There are two restaurants here that advertize "the best General Tsao's Chicken" in the area. If you taste those dishes side by side, one restaurant's chicken is slightly sweeter than the other and the other's chicken has a more gingery taste.

Also alot of restaurants (and home cooks) doctor the so-called master sauces. Typically they add sugar. Sometimes they'll add extra aromatic vegetables like onion, ginger, garlic, peppers, etc.

Chinese food is really a dieters minefield---you really don't know what goes into their sauces. Even if they don't add additional sugar or starches, all the master sauces contain sugar to begin with and most contain starches.

You could probably estimate the carbs, based on the nutritional info on a bottle of master sauce, but that's a very rough estimate because these places 'personalize' those basic sauces by adding alittle bit of that or alittle bit of this.