Can Chinese Avoid a Western influenced Diet or is it too late?
Can a Chinese maintain a strictly " traditional" diet without injesting western food or ingredients?Or are we too inner connected now?
Whenever I go out to a restaurant with Chinese people they always tell me how Chinese food is so healthy and how western food is so bad :cry:.Stop me if I'm wrong but most of the Chinese food I've seen is soaked in grease :shock:,deep fried,drowning in MSG and the meat is nothing but fat.In every apartment I've renting in China the first thing I had to clean,degrease and fumigate was the kitchen.The cooker,walls and vents are always dripping with grease.I see everyone in line at the grocery store with 10 gallons of cooking grease.
Back home a small bottle of cooking oil would last me at least 6 months.One of these large Chinese bottles would last me 5 or more years.The only place you can find bottles that big back home is in Sam's Club or some other warehouse style grocery store designed to cater to prisons and hospitals.
One last thing,I'm always told by Chinese people how bad McDonalds is and how much they hate it but everytime I pass a McDonalds or a KFC 99% to 100% of the patrons in there are Chinese.The only thing keeping McDonalds in business in China are the Chinese people lining up in long lines to buy this western food that they hate so much.
And I know what some of the Chinese people will say "Chinese food in restaurants are bad but Chinese food at home is healthy".sorry but I've eating at enough Chinese peoples homes to know that isn't always the case.
Basically all food is healthy no matter what country it's made in,it all comes down to how the cook cooks it.