Is chinese food healthy? you know like egg rolls and vegatable lo mein?

Question

Is chinese food healthy? you know like egg rolls and vegatable lo mein?

Answer 1

If you are concerned about that, you should make a Chinese dish according to your style. I love Chinese food made here because they put more vegetables than the original Chinese do in China. Try doing that.

Answer 2

nicer restaurants, like PF Chang's are a bit healthier (and you can find the nutrition information online). Your run-of-the-mill neighborhood chinese restaurant is likely not a great place to get food. Not to mention, they keep their prices low by buying less than high quality meets (as in very fatty). You can find good recipes online to make your own, though. I make my own fried rice with brown rice and olive oil and vegetables- it's quick and really easy.

Answer 3

Yes!,..it's one of the most healthiest diets in the world cause they use allot of veg and cook meat by steaming it and not frying!

And if they do fry food it's done with very little oil which is usually sesame oil(one of the best for a healthy diet!)

My Mum is Jamaican Chinese so she cook's allot of these meals and it's Yummy! ;)

Answer 4

It's really going to depend on the dish.  Deep fried foods, like egg rolls, will contain extra calories due to the oil they were cooked in.  However other recipes use steaming or boiling as alternative cooking methods, and therefore aren't as high in fat or calories.  (potstickers/dumplings are a good example of this...)

Much of the food that many Americans think of as being "Chinese" is neither really healthy nor Chinese.  This includes all those meat dishes that are breaded, fried and then coated with sugar-laden sauces, like Sweet&Sour Pork, or General's Tso's Chicken.  Other things like lo mein or fried rice are more traditional, but due to them being cooked in oil, aren't so healthy for you either even if they do contain vegetables.

Most traditional Chinese dishes are mostly vegetables, with only a little bit of oil and meat (since they were traditionally  very expensive.)    In fact, meat is almost only used as a flavoring - not as a main ingredient - in many dishes.  For instance, one dish consists of parboiled string beans with brine shrimp, or  Chinese-style smoked ham.

Answer 5

if you cook it ritee and healthy then yes. from lyk take out, its not usually to healthy, but not too too bad.. but eatit sparingly.

Answer 6

No, not really.  I just read a question about this in my Shape magazine from February.  http://www.shape.com/healthy_eating/8012...

Answer 7

EWWW not sushi!!! definately and also they are bad

Try going to the restaurant website and contactin gthem

Answer 8

from a restaurant, i say no.  the sodium alone is enough to kill ya...then some restaurants still use MSG which is bad for your stomach/digestive tract, and egg rolls are deep fat fried.

if you cooked it at home, you have more control over the ingredients and methods.