Chinese Food

Going to mother in laws tomorrow and we are going to order out for chinese food. I'v been really good the past few weeks staying within my calorie range but I can't seem to find chinese food anywhere on the food list... Does anyone have any idea's.... :)

I'm not sure if this will help all that much, but try searching in the Food browser for Chinese. It does give a list of restaurant and prepared entrees from various manufacturers. If nothing there helps just try browsing using a specific selection(ie. Egg foo yung, Sweet and sour,  etc...) - I'm not sure what has been added. Sorry couldn't be of more help.

P.s. Some restaurants have web pages that give nutrional info - you might be able to find similar items there.

If you order steamed vegetables and rice - you can just record the ingredients.

Remember, most of the "tasty" Chinese food is fried, and that will be heavy in calories because of the oils used.

Easy on the soy sauce too! Lots of sodium there.

If you're conned into eating/chosing a meat dish, go for one with lots of vegies and a light sauce. (Panda Express Beef and Brocolli looked ok)
Have a look at the Panda Express website too.
Also, order chinese tea and fill up with that.
Avoid the prawn chips and deep fried prok in sweet and sour.
The chinese places around here often have fruit salads/jellies, so just save up for dessert it everything it too unhealthy.

Try this site: http://www.fehd.gov.hk/cgi-bin/fehd/niis/text _subgroup.cgi
It has dim sum, and some meats and desserts

We had Chinese for dinner last night (and I ate my leftovers for lunch today).  I was trying to be good-- I had wonton soup, steamed rice, and some shrimp dish with pecans that I hadn't tried before.  Still not sure how many cals and junk were in there, since there's no nutrition data available for the restaurant, but I guess I could've done worse.

I guess the best I can do is say if you wanna calorie-estimate, look up comparable dishes before you go.  Don't pick fried rice or an egg roll.  Soups are pretty good for counting cals (though not for watching sodium -_-; ).  If you can, order steamed dishes rather than fried.  It's generally better to eat chicken or pork than beef.  Whatever you pick, eat half and wrap the rest up for later.  But that last one is a good idea for any restaurant you go to, since they all serve such humongous portions!

Thanks for all the replys ... I think I'm just going to wing it. Hopefully the stuff we get won't be that bad.. LOL I will have small portions too..

Egg rolls are bad, fyi

My faves are shrimp and chinese vegetables or moo goo gai pan (that's just fun to say!) with white rice.  I don't do the fried things or anything in a heavy sauce, and I only eat about a half cup of rice and a half cup of the entree.  That seems to work pretty well if I drink lots of water.  I've done that 4 times in the past couple of months (2x for the meal and 2x for left overs), and haven't gained the next day at all.  :)  Enjoy!

Thought these might be of interest:

Chinese Food: A Wok on the Wild Side

Dietfacts.com - Chinese Food search results

One of my favorite dishes was from this place south of Boston called Hunan Gourmet. It was "Revolution Diet #5" which basically amounted to steamed veggies with tofu which you flavor with two sauces, sesame and ginger soy. It was great. Unfortunately I am no longer living near them and I can't find a similar dish at the local crappy Chinese place. I guess I could just make it myself. Not sure how to steam the veggie just right though.

I love Chinese Food; in fact, I just made a kind of inside-out egg rolls for dinner tonite: (this serves two, and it tastes outstanding):

(by the way, these are kind of like a healthy version of egg rolls. If you like the flavour, this is good to try, because, as one of you said, they aren't the best for you when they're fried):

you need Nasoya egg roll wrappers, 1 head of cabbage, sliced, one carrot, shredded, a peice of peeled ginger the size of your thumb, chopped, a clove of garlic, about a quarter pound of top lean ground sirloin, chopped scallions, some oyster sauce (can be found in most grocery stores and doesn't taste like oysters), and some whole grain mustard.

heat oven to 375 degrees, and lightly coat a muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray. put an egg roll wrapper in each mufifin cup, then bake until crispy. These will be your 'bowls' (cute, huh??)

Saute the garlic with a little seseme seed oil until the garlic is fragrant, then add the ground beef. Stir a lot so the beef gets broken up. When the beef is starting to brown, add the chopped ginger. When the beef is completely cooked, add the scallions, then the cabbage and carrots. Mix well until the cabbage wilts. Transfer to a mixing bowl.

Add two tablespoons oyster sauce, and a nice big squirt of the whole grain mustard (it's got to be whole grain; French's won't cut it for this recipe). Mix well, then spoon into the egg roll cups! (you'll probably have some egg roll cups left over, but they're cute and can hold all kinds of stuff, even stuff like baked cinnamon apples and whatnot).

I'm going to go get the calorie information; I'll post it when I put it together.

Okay, yeah, it's like 200 calories per serving-ish, and quite filling, too.  I know I should have posted in on the Recipes forum, but I was excited about this recipe and thought of it when I was reading this post. So enjoy!

And by the way, you don't really need a whole head of cabbage as it says above; like half a head is fine~