Does real Chinese food include lots of meat Just like The one in America, I thought Chinese food healthy?

Meat is healthy if just alittle. cause has too much cholesteral but there's alot of meat/beef /pork/chicken options in Chinese food menu's EVEN in the one advertised by Real chinese people who own restaurants.Does real Chinese food include lots of meat Just like The one in America, I thought Chinese food healthy?
I am born in Hong Kong and spent significant amount of time in Taiwan, and now I live in US for some 20 years, so I will answer this as best as I can. There are plenty authentic Chinese restaurants in US, so I will not say all American-Chinese restaurants are very different from Chinese-Chinese restaurants. Some difference, but not in the big picture.



Chinese do eat a lot of kind of meat and Chinese restaurants in Asia offer even more, like bears and turtles. What is true is that Chinese do not eat a lot of meat in quantity. Chinese rarely eat a whole plate of meat like what you see in American steak houses. We eat more vegetables than meat in almost any meal, so this, I think, is different than many Americans.



Now, what you saw is not false. The dishes served in Chinese restaurants have more meat (in quantity) than what would have been in a Chinese home. This is not just meat. Homestyle Chinese cooking is much lighter on salt and oil than their restaurant counterpart. What you eat out and eat at home often differs. For example, you will always see "sweet and sour pork" in Chinese restaurant. Chinese do eat that when we are eating out, but that is not a very common dish at home. Shark fin soup, you see that at restaurants, but people do not eat that at home.



If you think about this, this is quiet common to many other cultures as well. Japanese do not eat sushi at home all the time. In fact, what Japanese eat at home is not super different than what Chinese eat at home, but you won't think that if you only look at their respective restaurants. Indian foods. Most Indians eat very vegetarian foods. Maybe not absolutely all vegetable, but pretty much 99%. Yet, Indian restaurants have so much more meat than that, even the authentic Indian restaurants.



If you really think about it, even American restaurants do not reflect average American home cook, right?
Chinese food does include a lot of meat, as in choices, Beef, chicken, pork, fish, crustaceans, and some Americans would prefer not to hear about. The difference is the way in which the meat is treated. In China, four ounces of beef will feed a family of four to six.



In American Chinese, this is true also. A beef and broccoli dish will normally contain about 4 to 6 ounces of beef, tenderized, marinated, and coated in corn starch that allows it to swell to twice it's size. In addition, the dish will contain about 12 to 16 ounces of broccoli plus onions, garlic, possibly a few pieces of carrot, and various other vegetables, depending on the restaurant, and the region of origin for the dish.

Chinese shrimp based dishes designed for family dining will typically contain 2 to 3 shrimp per person.



American food differs. Red Lobster will offer 8 to 10 ounces of beef, and all the shrimp you can eat per person. So, Even American Chinese food really does not offer a lot of meat, just a lot of choice in meat.Does real Chinese food include lots of meat Just like The one in America, I thought Chinese food healthy?
I had dinner at a Chinese girl's house and she cooked REAL Chinese food. It was so delicious, yet simple, and not meat based at all. Meat is more like a condiment, or just for a little of the flavor it imparts to the dish. Vegetables are the stars in real Chinese cooking!
There are very meaty dishes in China but most people do not eat that way frequently. They eat lots of rice or noodles, a small amount of meat and a good portion of veggies.



Different regions of China have very different foods.
American Chinese food is totally different from real Chinese food. It also varies from region to region within China itself. Parts of China eat lots of meat, some are more moderate, and others are vegetarian.