should Lanx become a vegetarian?

[wellington1869]

as far as diets and long life goes, from what i understand, the most important thing is to reduce calories. In one study mice on near-starvation diets outlived their normal-eating friends by something like 50% (or some outrageously high number). Its a bit of a paradox. I think it was on 60 minutes that i saw an interview with a group of human who decided to try to replicate what worked for mice, and they eat like no more than 800 calories a day (whcih is like one sandwich to you and me) and they want to see if this affects their longevity.

Or also we could all just only eat salmon and red wine for every meal  That seems to work too

[Lanx]

well it all does break down to calories, while i'm sure even though he burns 7,000 calories a day, michael phelps won't be eating 12 big mac's a day to get that 7k calorie count.

[wellington1869]

well fancy does not by atmosphere of restaurant=better tasting food.
While i don't dispute your roommates opinion my mom said food in chinatown tastes the same or better than in hk/china. Her reasoning all the good cooks flock to ny anyway.(cuz to make big, you have to make it in america)

i'll have to swing by chinatown and check out her theory  Its definitely not yet true for indian restaurants.

the other interesting thing about chinese food and my roommate - we were visiting seattle where his brother worked for microsoft - and we decided to go out for chinese food, and i said, great, i love sweet and sour chicken! and him and his brother and all their friends laughed at me, and said dude thats not chinese food. They said they'll take me to real chinese food. Went to chinatown in seattle, to some dive hidden away in an alley. Not a single white person around for miles, packed with chinese people speaking loudly in chinese and bantering with the chef. My friends ordered for me since there wasnt even an english language menu.

....and i hated it! lol!!!!!! Everything was really sour or really bitter, lol! My friends loved it, they couldnt get enough. But yea, apparently chinese cuisine is far more diverse and varied than "americanized" chinese restaurants would ever serve.  (I wont even describe the horrendous dim sum plates that followed, carrying items out of some 19th century gothic curiosity cabinet).

For what its worth, i've also never seen a menu in manhattan that indians in india would consider 'normal fare'. I'm also pretty sure americans wouldnt like a lot of the stuff that most indians eat at every meal (especially the super-spicey stuff).

but diversity - there's no shortage of it, when it comes to veg.  (its a far cry from salads!). Its only a question of making it available easily.

I also believe there is a huge market for "fusion" cuisine, and that we'll see more and more of that.

[mike]

The Africans died quicker because they lived in a desert with no food in the first place.

Trolling or knuckle-dragging stupidity ?

[itlnstln]

It's a drinking game.

By the end of the day I fall off my chair.

That would be an epic drinking game.

[Lanx]

i'll have to swing by chinatown and check out her theory  Its definitely not yet true for indian restaurants.

the other interesting thing about chinese food and my roommate - we were visiting seattle where his brother worked for microsoft - and we decided to go out for chinese food, and i said, great, i love sweet and sour chicken! and him and his brother and all their friends laughed at me, and said dude thats not chinese food. They said they'll take me to real chinese food. Went to chinatown in seattle, to some dive hidden away in an alley. Not a single white person around for miles, packed with chinese people speaking loudly in chinese and bantering with the chef. My friends ordered for me since there wasnt even an english language menu.

....and i hated it! lol!!!!!! Everything was really sour or really bitter, lol! My friends loved it, they couldnt get enough. But yea, apparently chinese cuisine is far more diverse and varied than "americanized" chinese restaurants would ever serve.  (I wont even describe the horrendous dim sum plates that followed, carrying items out of some 19th century gothic curiosity cabinet).

For what its worth, i've also never seen a menu in manhattan that indians in india would consider 'normal fare'. I'm also pretty sure americans wouldnt like a lot of the stuff that most indians eat at every meal (especially the super-spicey stuff).

but diversity - there's no shortage of it, when it comes to veg.  (its a far cry from salads!). Its only a question of making it available easily.

I also believe there is a huge market for "fusion" cuisine, and that we'll see more and more of that.

yea basically, unless it's in an ethnic area like "chinatown" the food is tailored for american tastes. You can goto your basic chinese takeout and ask them for what they would actually eat and just pay for it. Cuz i can assure you everyone in the take out place also eats there and the stuff they cook for themselves is vastly different than whats on the menu.
if chinatown is too far/difficult
8av bklyn/flushing queens are alternatives.

[itlnstln]

I tried just doing the palm to forehead thing but my doctor told me I was getting a concussion.

I wish I could tell you the, "why do all Italians have short necks and flat foreheads," joke but that would require acting.

Instead, I will tell this one.

One day, Liro Castiglione was decorating his house, and he tells the interior designer, "over on-a dat window, I wanna da curtains, and in da corner I wanna statyoo."  The designer asks, "well what kind of statue do you want? David?  Venus de Milo?"  "No, no, no," said Liro, "I wanna da thing dat rings and yoo pick it up and say, 'statyoo?'"

Thanks, I'll be here all week.