Guest guest Posted April 5, 2001 Report Share Posted April 5, 2001 > can anyone suggest what items we can eat at Chinese places? Dry garlic spareribs Beef, green peppers and onions in Black Bean Sauce Prawns with brocoli in Black Bean Sauce Ginger beef (better go easy on this if its the Orange-type) Szechuan Green Beans Dai Ching Tiger Prawns with chili sauce Almond chicken - jinxie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2001 Report Share Posted April 5, 2001 From: Barbara Pollack <bpollack@... Traditional Chinese food uses mostly small amounts of sugar and honey for seasoning and as a browning agent, so my guess is that most lowcarbers could handle this -- but it really depends on the particular recipes. If you are sensitive to the steamed vegetables, which are usually lowcarb ones, it might be a risk -- unless you are sure that they start out with very little sugar and are truly charred. If they are merely browned and carmelized, there are likely to be sugars (128 kinds, IIRC what Shirley Corriher wrote), and there's no way of knowing how digestible they may be. If the restaurant serves lettuce roll-ups for appetizers, they can usually be persuaded to give you lettuce leaves instead of pancakes with Peking duck. And while Peking duck usually has a little syrup coating the skin,it's likely to be considerably less per serving. Barbara _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2001 Report Share Posted April 5, 2001 From: Barbara Pollack <bpollack@... Traditional Chinese food uses mostly small amounts of sugar and honey for seasoning and as a browning agent, so my guess is that most lowcarbers could handle this -- but it really depends on the particular recipes. If you are sensitive to the steamed vegetables, which are usually lowcarb ones, it might be a risk -- unless you are sure that they start out with very little sugar and are truly charred. If they are merely browned and carmelized, there are likely to be sugars (128 kinds, IIRC what Shirley Corriher wrote), and there's no way of knowing how digestible they may be. If the restaurant serves lettuce roll-ups for appetizers, they can usually be persuaded to give you lettuce leaves instead of pancakes with Peking duck. And while Peking duck usually has a little syrup coating the skin,it's likely to be considerably less per serving. Barbara _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2001 Report Share Posted April 5, 2001 Cashew chicken? jinxie wrote: <<> > can anyone suggest what items we can eat at Chinese places? > > Dry garlic spareribs > Beef, green peppers and onions in Black Bean Sauce > Prawns with brocoli in Black Bean Sauce > Ginger beef (better go easy on this if its the Orange-type) > Szechuan Green Beans > Dai Ching Tiger Prawns with chili sauce > Almond chicken>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2001 Report Share Posted April 5, 2001 Egg Foo Yung is a great Chinese food, low carb choice - light on the sauce, of course. (My husband and I love Chinese food and in order to avoid the rice and noodles, I started ordering the E.F.Y. - and find it very satisfying.) Can you eat brown rice (not fried rice) on Atkins, because some Chinese restaurants serve that as an alternative? What about stir-fried green beans or other all veggie meal? Or chicken and broccoli, skip the rice. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2001 Report Share Posted April 5, 2001 some ideas from alcss: Most Chinese restaurants have a " special diet needs " section where you can order chicken or beef & vegetables without MSG, cornstarch or sugar. Egg drop soup is also relatively LC. I don't know how low carb it is, but chicken szechuan style is what I get and it hasn't seemed to hurt my diet any...I may be lucky in that the restaurant I use doesn't use cornstarch...in my experience, the chicken doesnt usually have any type of breading or anything on it and the veggies include onions, peppers, bamboo shoots and others depending on the restaurant. I order entree without rice and then don't drown all my bites in the sauce like I used to do I also plan on staying pretty low on carbs at my other meals and if its dinner, eating earlier in the evening than usual so I have more time to use the extra energy. Yes, it is pretty spicy - but these spices tend to clean me out, so that's not so bad for me. This is a truly great idea: Tell them you are allergic to sugar, cornstarch, rice, and flour, and ask the chef to make you a meat and veggie stir fry without those items. There are many LC ingredients you CAN have... it can be done and any decent Chinese restaurant should be able to accomodate your needs. Hot and Sour soup is fairly LC. Moo Goo Gai Pan can be made without cornstarch, if requested. My solution, overall, is to go to a place with a Mongolian BBQ, you put all the stuff you want from a sort-of-salad-bar in a big bowl and bring it up to the grill-chef, and he stir-fries it for you. Tell them no cornstarch please _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2001 Report Share Posted April 5, 2001 What's in black bean sauce? chili sauce? I wouldn't think of any chinese sauce as LC, as they typically contain cornstarch and/or sugar. HJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2001 Report Share Posted April 5, 2001 I love to order Egg Fu Yung. I ask them to put the sauce on the side so I can put as little as I want on it. It is truly an egg " pancake " with low carb veggies. I live in Chicago down the street from " new " China town on Argyle street. It's more of a mix of Chinese and Korean. Every day I would walk down the street and would see tons of meat in the window. One day I decided to stop in and try something. I'm so glad I did. My husband gets the mixed seafood combination which has some veggies (including carrots which we don't like anyway) and I get the 1/2 roast duck. That's right. And that's all I get. They know by now no rice. We spend less than $15 combined and are truly full. OMG I want some now!!!. ~ Dawn C. ===== An average American has a vocabulary of 10,000 words; but I have 10,002, because I just made up " pfitz-kokkie " and " sheents. " __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 6, 2001 Report Share Posted April 6, 2001 Sue... I usually watch my carbs real close on the meals leading up to and after. It seems to really help me. The place we go is actually a buffet place and they have crab legs so I eat some of those as it takes so long to open them that it seems to help with my appetite. I then eat the chicken/broccoli minus the rice of course. They also have a chicken on a stick thing (don't know the real name, sorry) that I eat. I just try to stick to the items that are mostly meat and veggies and not breaded. I know that some of the items must have cornstarch to thicken but it doesn't seem to bother me so this will be a YMMV thing. With a bit of perseverence you will be able to figure out what you can and cannot eat there. Take Care, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 6, 2001 Report Share Posted April 6, 2001 I also read somewhere that you can ask them to not make the stuff Americanized (which adds all the breadings, etc.) ===== An average American has a vocabulary of 10,000 words; but I have 10,002, because I just made up " pfitz-kokkie " and " sheents. " __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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