Lessons from the Chinese diet

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Lessons from the Chinese diet

Use meat sparingly and emphasize vegetables

 

By Sandra Gordon

WEBMD

 

Scan the menu at your local Chinese restaurant and you’re apt to find dozens of

meat-centered dishes — General Tso’s chicken, orange beef, twice-fried pork. But

don’t be fooled. Most Chinese living in China don’t eat such a meat-centered

diet.

 

 

FOR CENTURIES, for reasons both economic and historic, the traditional Chinese

diet has been primarily vegetarian — featuring lots of vegetables, rice, and

soybeans — and containing only shavings of meat for flavoring, says Lan Tan,

owner of Lan Tan’s Chinese Cooking School in Durham, N.C. Many Chinese simply

can’t afford mega slabs of meat — or the cooking oil with which to prepare it.

Just as Americans may ask, “Where’s the beef?” when visiting a traditional

Chinese restaurant in China, the traditional Chinese might wonder, “Where are

the vegetables?” when visiting a Chinese restaurant in the U.S.

 

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