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onechunkymunkey

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Does anyone know how many calories the average person eats at a chinese buffet....i had my cheat meal and it was chinese buffet i wanna try to find out about how many calories i ate...i had some rice...vegetable chow mein...an eggroll...some general chicken and like 3 or 4 kinds of stirfry....about 2 plates...i was guessing it at maybe 2500??
 
Sorry, I have no answer to your question, but I had Chinese Take out last night for dinner.

I had Sweet n Sour Chicken and Fried Rice. It was absolutely great, although I ate way too much. I don't regret eating the take out, just how much I ate, because I ate and ate and ate. heehe. I ate about 85% of my meal!
 
Enjoy it and dont dwell. Whats the point of cheating to feel good, and then beating yourself up because of calories.

*I have no absolute answer for you on this one, so see above :)*
 
Keep in mind that Stir-Fry is pretty darn good food, as long as it isn't the oily kind. If you are having a normal stir fry, you can be pretty safe guesstimating around 300 calories per cup. Fried rice runs 350-400 calories per cup, steamed rice runs 250-300 per cup (some places add a little oil, and different kinds of rice have different calorie counts), and of course there is the general's chicken, for which every restaurant has a different recipe; the usual association on it is 100 calories an ounce, but it is often more.

I hope that helps, ChunkyMonkey :D
These are not absolute numbers, of course, but they are ballpark numbers I could find from various Google searches. See you later!
 
Does it really matter how many calories really?!Come on it was Chinese food!!;) I love the stuff so it is definetely only for cheat days or really special occasions you know like Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, all special occasions as far as Chinese food is concerned!!! I just try to stay away from the deep fried things like sweet and sour chicken and egg rolls. Avoiding the Chinese buffets helps cut down on the intake too!!:D
 
I love chinese food too. Last time I used a cheat meal there, I avoided the crab rangoons (oohhhh, I love those) and had only 1 egg roll. Most of the other stuff I eat is the stirfry stuff. If it was your cheat, just ignore the calories, as the pp said.:D
 
MMM crab ragoons...you just had to bring those up didn't you;) I purposly stay away from one of the chinese places here just because I can't say no to those things. They are sinfully wonderful!!
 
Real Chinese food is most excellent, but Chinese buffetts over here... even on a cheat day I'd say stay away. Everything is fried and drenching in sauce. Even the best of places orders the cheapest meat they can find. Buffetts also encourage people not just to overeat, but to blow right past that point into the realm of pure gluttony. You need to go there one last time to thoroughly examine how cheap and crappy the food quality really is and ask yourself if this is really what you need to be giving your body while trying to give it an overhaul. Most people can't slow down with shoveling in the food to consider such a thing, that's why they get away with it, and that's why alot of people are really overweight.

If you want Chinese food, learn how to make it yourself at home. I promise you that once you get used to preparing stir fry at home and get used to better cooked and higher quality ingredients, you won't even want to go to a Chinese buffet.
 
Chinease food has recently been my diet downfall as odd as that may seem.

There are 2-3 GREAT places around my house that my friends LOVE going to.

When I walk through their doors, all I can go is mandarian chicken with an eggroll and fried rice :(

Lots of calories
 
I guesstimate Chinese food by using Panda Express' nutritional information.

If you must have Asian food try a Mongolian BBQ place. It's another place where it is tempting to load up, but you can work out the proportions of each ingredient to your own taste. I've recently been doing 1/2 the noodles and meat I used to and twice the broccoli and three times the mushrooms. I end up with a rather low calorie delicious meal.
 
What we do is have wonton soup, chicken fried rice and maybe an eggroll. I don't know the calorie count, but it can't be too bad.
 
I love wonton soup (but they have those pasta "brain" looking things with meat inside, eww), spring rolls (vegetables in them) and rice. Oh egg fried rice!
 
OH, and for the calorie question. I searched google and got these answers, but I'm sure they'd vary depending on how they were cooked, and such.

Egg Roll, with meat (one) 120 calories
Fried Rice, with meat (1 cup) 290 calories
Not sure about vegetable, but Beef Chow Mein is 320 cals for one cup.

Also, Wanton (wonton, whatever :p) is 240 for one medium bowl.
 
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