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> He cannot speak Chinese. He adheres strictly to a lifelong low-sugar, low-cholesterol diet. I'm no expert on cholesterol, but does fried Chinese food not have the same cholesterol level as other fried food?
I'd be much more worried about how well rice and "low-sugar" play together.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/chop-suey...
The above article was posted on HN awhile ago. Author goes to number of small town chinese restaurants in Canada and tells their stories. Very long read. Not sure why I liked it so much, but was a good relaxing read.
> He cannot speak Chinese. He adheres strictly to a lifelong low-sugar, low-cholesterol diet. I'm no expert on cholesterol, but does fried Chinese food not have the same cholesterol level as other fried food?
Cholesterol is added via animal fat (e.g. frying in lard, tallow, or butter), not by the process of frying. Plants do not contain cholesterol.
Yes, they do. Source: Cholesterol and Plants by Behrman et al.
> He cannot speak Chinese. He adheres strictly to a lifelong low-sugar, low-cholesterol diet. I'm no expert on cholesterol, but does fried Chinese food not have the same cholesterol level as other fried food?
Chinese food can be verryyyy oily, but cantonese food tend to be healthier I find. It's possible that he sticks to vegetable dishes or steamed food.
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Chinese food can be verryyyy oily, but cantonese food tend to be healthier I find. It's possible that he sticks to vegetable dishes or steamed food.
Cantonese invented sweet and sour pork, which is very much fried. I think you’ll find healthy and unhealthy options in most Chinese styles fairly equally. Now the stuff they sell at restaurants in the states is another story, but that is more about clientele.
Yeah, absolutely agreed. Most 'traditional cuisines' tend to be fairly healthy. My pet theory on this is along the lines of an evolutionary standpoint.. if it wasn't healthy, the people eating it would have been more likely to die off.
Unfortunately North American's got all the delicious foods from all the cultures that immigrated :)
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Cantonese invented sweet and sour pork, which is very much fried. I think you’ll find healthy and unhealthy options in most Chinese styles fairly equally. Now the stuff they sell at restaurants in the states is another story, but that is more about clientele.
> but that is more about clientele. Yeah, absolutely agreed. Most 'traditional cuisines' tend to be fairly healthy. My pet theory on this is along the lines of an evolutionary standpoint.. if it wasn't healthy, the people eating it would have been more likely to die off. Unfortunately North American's got all the delicious foods from all the cultures that immigrated :)
We know a wealthy Chinese woman as far back as 600BCE had high cholesterol and a heart attack. https://allthatsinteresting.com/xin-zhui-lady-dai
Yeah, maybe he does have some profound insights into Chinese food just by virtue of volume, but the fact that he doesn't like spicy food and his favorite dish is soy sauce and rice means that I'm probably not going to trust him for food advice. Kind of a shame actually.
If it's literally just plain soy sauce on plain rice though, it's probably just nostalgia over childhood poverty meals. It's not bad but you don't do it by choice!
Yeah, maybe he does have some profound insights into Chinese food just by virtue of volume, but the fact that he doesn't like spicy food and his favorite dish is soy sauce and rice means that I'm probably not going to trust him for food advice. Kind of a shame actually.