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Chinese buffet: "fresh vegetables" and "sauteed broccoli" calories?

Hey everyone.

I just got back from a chinese buffet dinner. I'd eaten a pretty big breakfast and lunch, so I didn't have a lot of calories to spare. The majority of my dinner was "fresh vegetables" and "sauteed broccoli."

I know to avoid sauces at chinese buffets, and neither of these were cooked in sauce per se - they appeared totally sauce-free, and tasted just a little salty/savoury. At first, I thought the liquid in the bottom of the dish was water - but upon closely examining my plate, I saw little droplets of fat coating the top.

So my question is: how were these dishes likely prepared? Was I as safe as I thought in eating TONS of them? They tasted so good; I should have known there had to be a catch...

Well anything "sauteed" is cooked in oil.  That's how sauteeing works.

And in american chinese restaurants more often than not everything is cooked in or with oil.  Unless it says "steamed" there was oil involved.

Honestly I wouldn't worry about it.  Don't go crazy over something in the past.  That only ends in tears.