What do Chinese and Asian people eat that help to keep them slim and healthy?

What do Chinese and Asian people eat that help to keep them slim and healthy?

I am sharing a beautiful story of my Friend Soren Kim 

Soren and His wife is Chinese, and he also lived in China for a few years, so he feel he can illuminate that a bit.

When it comes to real Chinese food, the kind people actually eat at home, and in restaurants in China, you’ll find that it is very low on carbohydrates and sugar.

In fact, it took half a year before he had my first bowl of rice in China. It’s just not that common. Instead, you eat mountains of steamed or seared vegetables, though with plenty of oil, and a bit of meat sprinkled on, more to give it a flavour.

So, in practical terms, eating like a Chinese person means you’re almost vegetarian, eating mostly vegetables, with only a little bit of meat. And it’ll be oily.

There will be next to no dairy products, and when it comes to drinks, alcohol and sodas are not really as much of a factor as water and tea. And forget about bread and cake. They do exist, but they aren’t something you base three meals a day on.

So, long story short, you simply have a low calorie intake with very high fibre.

During my three years in China, my weight went down 32 kg. And he ate well. Like, really crazy well. I lived in Shanghai and Beijing, and ate in restaurants twice a day. Nice ones, too.

Here, these are the dishes I basically lived on (and my weight probably would have plummeted a lot more if I hadn’t had a bottle of Argentine Malbec or yellow rice wine every evening).

A typical lunch for me, in Shanghai; sweet vinegar peanuts, beef noodle soup, and a beer:

A wonderful soup, and I have no idea what’s in it:

My favourite, hot and sour soup:

Egg and chili - hot as hell, but I liked it:

Shredded potato, served warm, with a vinegary sort of sauce:

Simply cucumbers, with a dipping sauce that may have been Hoisin:

Potsticker dumplings, usually filled with crazy amounts of garlic, and either pork or, could be, spinach:

Fried cabbage - oily and fantastic:

Fried millet thingies, I presume - wonderful every time:

Broad beans with herbs, chilis, and soya sauce:

Glass noodles, some seafoody thingies, and … was it barley?

A typical dinner in a cheapish restaurant in Shanghai:

No idea what these were, but amazing:

Having Beijing Duck, in Beijing; also on that table are seared cauliflower with bacon, omelette, and hot and sour soup:

Beijing Duck, my absolute favourite. As you can see, there is not much duck there at all. It’s not like in western cuisine, where “eating duck” means you are basically busy devouring a cadaver. Instead, you use a little bit of duck to eat mostly wheat pancakes filled with veggies:

Wheat pancake with romain lettuce leaf, fried egg, bacon, hoisin sauce:

Cauliflower with bacon, usually served sizzling:

Peanuts in sweet vinegar,a Shanghai cold dish and appetizer:

Mapo Tofu, a lovely, spicy tofu with a sauce not entirely Bolognese, but with plenty of Sichuan pepper; we sometimes get lucky and restaurants even here in Sweden make it for us:

Aubergines with green beans and red chilis, a very oily dish, but lovely:

Yet more Shanghai sweet vinegar peanuts - I could never get enough of these:

A dish I imagine to be from western China; veal rolls, crisply baked or fried. Not an easily found thing, but I ate it whenever I came to that particular restaurant in Beijing:

Tofu and pork with green beans and chilis; very spicy:

A mysterious, wonderful dish served by the same restaurant that served the veal rolls. It seemed to be based on both fish and sweet beans. I have no idea what it is:

One of my standard favourites, fried tofu with gravy and mushrooms:

A very frequent choice of mine, in one of those places where you could assemble your own ingredients to make a big bowl of soup. I have no idea what all the ingredients were. All sorts of vegetables and mushrooms and tofu bits, chicken, and beef. Following are more images of the ingredients you could choose:

Thanks Dear Soren Kim for sharing such wonderful information

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