Calories in Chinese food. How do you calculate them?

Does anyone have a good website to recommend that provides the calorie count for a number of chinese dishes?  I found a couple but either they don't have too many dishes listed or they don't specify the portion which can vary greatly by restaurant. 

Other wise listing all the ingrediants is a hassle.

Thanks in advance for your tips.

Hasta

Guessing portions in a restaurant is tricky, especially one where you can reload your plate and lose count of what you're doing. You almost have to think volumetrically. 1/3 cup of white rice is about 80 calories (if you can sense that - I'd say that's about a heaping serving spoons worth), and I'd double that for fried rice. I'd call soup 80 cals per half cup - about what they serve for an appetizer. Fried wontons with filling maybe 50 cals each, fried egg rolls maybe 200 cals, spring rolls maybe 100 calories. Chow mein 150 cals per 1/2 cup, and I'd say about the same for any stir fry mix from happy family to kung pao.



A good rule to remember is that a cup of chili con carne is 300 calories. I'd treat chinese food as about equivalent. If you eat 4 cups of it (a quart takeout container's worth), you've eaten around 1200 calories.

That's how I'd treat it anyway. If anyone has any better advice I'm as eager as hasta to know.

This site is pretty helpful

Wow....this is a sodium-loaded bomb. This will definitely swell on you - water retention for days afterward. The serving sizes aren't given on the link, but fried rice is mentioned as 4-5 cups for 1500 calories. That's a lot of fried rice. They must be talking about a whole order.

I guess we'd better keep our portions very small.  Maybe we can look into Thai food.  They're a little lighter on the sauces. Thanks for the input!

Dumplings

One pork steamed 40 calories

One pork fried 75 calories

One vegetable steamed 25 calories



Sides

Three mini Egg Rolls 100 Calories

1 rice paper roll 80 calories

1 ½ oz spring roll 100 Calories

1 steamed Wonton 55 calories

Crab Cake: 2oz 105 Calories

1 Cup (or ½ pint) 6 ½ oz plain Rice 240 calories

1 cup Chinese Noodles 200 Calories



Soup

One bowl clear broth 30 calories

One bowl clear broth with noodles 100 Calories

 1 cup Egg Drop Soup With Noodles 120

1 cup Egg Drop Soup Without Noodles 70



Main Dish

Beef Satay 17oz 760 Calories

Beef in black Bean Sauce 17oz 530 Calories

Beef with Broccoli 16oz 650 Calories

Chicken& Almonds 18oz 685 Calories

Chopped Suey Chicken 20oz 560 calories

Chopped Suey Pork 20oz 680 calories

Chow Main Beef/Chicken 24 oz 940 Calories

Crab Puff/ Rangoon, 1 Dumpling 80 Calories

Crispy Fried Chicken, 8 oz 485 Calories

1 cup of Egg Foo Yung With Sauce  225 calories

Lemon Chicken, 10oz 580 Calories

Sweet& Sour Pork , 18oz  950 Calories

Steamed Vegetables (No oil) 6oz 120 Calories

Steamed Vegetables ( oil) 6oz 250 Calories



Desserts

Fortune Cookie 25-30 calories each

Sauces

¼ cup soy sauce 34 calories

¼ cup Teriyaki Sauce 105 Calories

¼ cup Spicey Garlic Sauce 89 Calories

¼ cup Peanut Sauce 182 Calories

¼ cup sweet& Sour 107 Calories

¼ cup oyster sauce 29 Calories

¼ cup Black Bean sauce 67 Calories

Source: The Calorie King 2007 Color Edition Calorie Fat& Carbohydrate Counter