西部落：如何品尝中国美食?

Chinese food traditionally in the United States is made with a lot of extra oil as well as sauces. So it's a double whammy. What happens is things such as broccoli¹, a lot of vegetables act like tiny little sponges. What happens is when they are preparing the food in oil, it absorbs all that extra fat and then they're pouring the sauce on top of it. So if you're to look at some nutrition analysis that happens on Chinese food. They can clock in anywhere between 1,000 and over 1,600 calories per dish. They can range anywhere from 20 to over 75 grams of fat.

But here is what you can do, if you order your food steamed, which many people do, and then you put the sauce on the side, you use the fork method, which is dipping your fork in the sauce and then spearing your food, this way you are eliminating all the extra oil and you're using the sauce sparingly. But an even more creative suggestion that I tell a lot of my clients is if you order the same food, steamed, you order hot and sour soup on the side and what you do is you take a little bit of the hot and sour soup and pour it on top of the steamed dish that you've ordered, mix it up and you'll get the same saucy² flavor and texture³ without all the extra fat. One side of hot and sour soup is only about 100 calories and 4 grams of fat. So even if you use half of that soup, you'd have eliminated all of that extra, er, the excess calories and fat.

One of the suggestions that I have at Chinese restaurants are soups. What you notice on the Chinese menu is that they have pints⁵ and quarts. Even the pint⁴ size is a large, is large enough for a meal, they are broth⁶ based, they have added vegetables; there are some noodles in it, so if you are watching carbohydrate⁷ intake⁸, you can always take some of that away.

And if you order something like the seafood⁹, vegetable soup, there are shrimp¹⁰; there is, ah, crab¹¹ meat, sometimes it's imitation crab meat, er seafood, which is generally low in calories, virtually fat free and it has all the extra vegetables that are in it. And the broth is very filling. So something like a pint of a special tea soup at a Chinese restaurant is a great choice. One of the nice treats at a Chinese restaurant is the fortune cookie. It's less than 30 calories and 1 gram of fat. So it's something that you can enjoy easily at the end of your meal.

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1. whammy:n. evil-eye, jinx, spell (Slang) 晦气, 剧烈的打击

2.broccoli:n. type of green vegetable which resembles cauliflower 绿花椰菜

3. broth:n. clear soup made from concentrated meat or fish stock原汁清汤, 肉汤

4.carbohydrate:n. class of organic compounds of carbon hydrogen and oxygen 碳水化合物, 醣

5. intake: n. taking in; opening through which fluid is taken in (i.e. mouth of a pipe); something which is taken in or received; narrowing, contraction 摄取量

1 broccoli   

n.绿菜花，花椰菜

参考例句：

• She grew all the broccoli plants from seed.这些花椰菜都是她用种子培育出来的。
• They think broccoli is only green and cauliflower is only white.他们认为西兰花只有绿色的，而菜花都是白色的。

2 saucy   

adj.无礼的；俊俏的；活泼的

参考例句：

• He was saucy and mischievous when he was working.他工作时总爱调皮捣蛋。
• It was saucy of you to contradict your father.你顶撞父亲，真是无礼。

3 texture   

n.(织物)质地；(材料)构造；结构；肌理

参考例句：

• We could feel the smooth texture of silk.我们能感觉出丝绸的光滑质地。
• Her skin has a fine texture.她的皮肤细腻。

4 pint   

n.品脱

参考例句：

• I'll have a pint of beer and a packet of crisps, please.我要一品脱啤酒和一袋炸马铃薯片。
• In the old days you could get a pint of beer for a shilling.从前，花一先令就可以买到一品脱啤酒。

5 pints   

n.品脱( pint的名词复数 )；一品脱啤酒

参考例句：

• I drew off three pints of beer from the barrel. 我从酒桶里抽出三品脱啤酒。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Two pints today, please. 今天请来两品脱。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 broth   

n.原(汁)汤(鱼汤、肉汤、菜汤等)

参考例句：

• Every cook praises his own broth.厨子总是称赞自己做的汤。
• Just a bit of a mouse's dropping will spoil a whole saucepan of broth.一粒老鼠屎败坏一锅汤。

7 carbohydrate   

n.碳水化合物；糖类；(plural)淀粉质或糖类

参考例句：

• You should not have too much carbohydrate in your diet.你日常饮食中不该有过多碳水化合物。
• Cashew nuts are rich in carbohydrate.腰果含丰富碳水化合物。

8 intake   

n.吸入，纳入；进气口，入口

参考例句：

• Reduce your salt intake.减少盐的摄入量。
• There was a horrified intake of breath from every child.所有的孩子都害怕地倒抽了一口凉气。

9 seafood   

n.海产食品，海味，海鲜

参考例句：

• There's an excellent seafood restaurant near here.离这儿不远有家非常不错的海鲜馆。
• Shrimps are a popular type of seafood.小虾是比较普遍的一种海味。

10 shrimp   

n.虾，小虾；矮小的人

参考例句：

• When the shrimp farm is built it will block the stream.一旦养虾场建起来，将会截断这条河流。
• When it comes to seafood,I like shrimp the best.说到海鲜，我最喜欢虾。

11 crab   

n.螃蟹，偏航，脾气乖戾的人，酸苹果；vi.捕蟹，偏航，发牢骚；vt.使偏航，发脾气

参考例句：

• I can't remember when I last had crab.我不记得上次吃蟹是什么时候了。
• The skin on my face felt as hard as a crab's back.我脸上的皮仿佛僵硬了，就象螃蟹的壳似的。