may be indistinguishable from what youd find in Beijing, but more likely, the food
you awkwardly stab at with chopsticks may as well be fast food, and have all the health
benefits to match. So next time you decide to just order out,
remember these things you should never order from a Chinese restaurant. (Giggling) General Tso's chicken Named after a 19th-century military man who
was long dead when this dish was invented, General Tso's Chicken started out life in
the Hunanese style, and it wasnt sweet.
When the dish appeared on the menu at a restaurant
in New York, the chef added sweetness to make the dish more appealing to Americans. It's not like General Tsos Chicken was
a diet option to begin with, since its battered, fried meat covered in a sticky-sweet
concoction made of sugar and soy sauce. That means salt, and lots of it. Eat a standard portion of General Tso's, and
youve put away over 1500 calories, and more salt than you should eat in a whole day.
Unless youre a 19th-century fighting soldier,
don't eat it. And if you are, welcome to the 21st century. Sorry about the mess. "Isn't that wonderful?" "Yeah!" Fried rice White rice has the lowest nutritional value
of any rice option available, so when you throw it in a pan of oil, things just go downhill.
The oily, starchy, undeniably delicious results
are an unnecessary calorie addition to your meal. And when you've just eaten 1500 calories of
General Tso's favorite, the last thing you need is several hundred more on the side. Calorie counts vary depending on the oil used,
but start at around 200 calories for just a cup-sized portion, which isnt much. And if the chef isn't deliberately aiming
for health consciousness when he rustles up your order, the calorie count, and your doctor's
eyebrows, could easily get much higher.
Crab rangoon Whether you call them "cream cheese wontons,"
or "crab puffs", crab rangoon is basically crab and cream cheese, stuffed into a dough
wrapper, and like most other things on this list, are deep fried. Truth be told, it doesn't even matter whats
in the dough once it's deep fried, because that's the culinary equivalent of a mic drop
and not in a good way either. Crab meat, imitation or not, can make for
a healthy meal, but cream cheese has never been considered the poster child of anything
but indulgence...And it's definitely not Chinese. This unholy marriage is a Chinese-American
invention that's laden with calories and fat.
Instead, go for the spring rolls. If you're going to overindulge, you might
as well do it with something that's actually Chinese. Theyll still kill you, but at least itll
be an authentic death. Orange beef The beefier cousin of General Tso's chicken,
orange beef is similarly bad for you, and it's not hard to understand why.
Most nutritional data assumes that a takeout
container has two servings, but it's not uncommon for people to order a container just for themselves,
so all those numbers should probably be doubled. Orange beef is somewhere in the neighborhood
of a frightening 1200 calories, 50 grams of fat, and 1900 milligrams of sodium. If you can hold yourself to just half the
container, and absolutely nothing else, you're probably doing all right. However, if you're a normal human being who
simply cant resist the siren song of that free egg roll, you might avoid going over
your recommended calorie limit for the whole day but probably not.
And dont think that trading out chicken
for beef will help. The secret is in the sauce, and that sauce
will kill you. Barbecue spare ribs Combine delicious, tender, roasted pork with
a mouthwatering glaze of salty sweet barbecue sauce, and you have a dish fit for your inner
Neanderthal. Unfortunately, just because something sounds
good to your personal Flintstone doesn't mean it's good for you.
The only positive thing that can be said about
spare ribs, other than the taste, is that theyre a good source of protein. However, that protein comes from pork, which
rarely goes anywhere without a whole bunch of fat, and youll find around 950 calories
in an 8-ounce serving, as well as 1,200 milligrams of sodium, which is dangerously close to your
daily recommended amount of 1,500 milligrams. And if that werent enough, heres one
last nail in the coffin of your deadly dinner. Lo mein Noodles would never lie to you, right? Lo mein is a popular takeout dish that contains
noodles, vegetables, meat, and a soy-based sauce.
In the traditional Cantonese style, lo mein
is a solid option, but order it in an American restaurant and you'll get something completely
different. A standard serving of lo mein with your choice
of meat can have as many as 1,100 calories, most of which come from the carb-heavy noodles
and fat. You'll just have to accept that obesity and
heart disease are also a signature element of lo mein or just eat something else. "Woohoo! Look at that blubber fly!" Thanks for watching! Click the Mashed icon to subscribe to our
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