For Asian food eaters...

[abenamer]

I was having trouble finding nutritional values for Asian foods that I normally eat (I'm Filipino and I live in Brooklyn Chinatown).

Things like steamed Hainanese chicken and water spinach (ong choy aka kangkong) as well as other Asian food dishes normally don't have nutritional values set for them at the web site I use (www.fitday.com) to track my diet.

Anyway, check out www.nutrition.com.sg and www.diets.com.sg for information that is specific to people who normally eat a mix of Southeast Asian and Chinese cuisine.

You'll also notice at www.diets.com.sg the rather authoritarian approach to diet and nutrition in general. There is nothing like having a nearly Fascist approach to health

[TsiTalon]

You can do a search for it. It was just posted not too long ago about this. It was concluded that there is no way to get the facts cause every places cooks the food differently .

[abenamer]

but you've got to start somewhere but we can say this for every time we dine out except for the more automated franchises like Burger King or McDonald's or Subway's.

[TsiTalon]

abenamer what do you mean we have to start somwhere. There is no way to tell unless to visit the cheif and see how much butter /oil/ whatever he uses, What he mixes with it, Is it baked fried, droped on flood . There really is none. For most of the time i "dine" out i do say that, theres no way to tell , Thats why i will try and order something light, Maybe a big chicken salad with dressing on the side, Chicken Brest things like that .

[abenamer]

with you that there will be a measure of uncertainty with all of this. On the other hand, the error rate probably isn't more than 30%. After all, a chicken breast is going to have a different composition from fish no matter how it's sliced and diced or cooked.

I try to eat light too when I eat out precisely because of that error rate. However, I don't think the process of counting calories has to stop just because we can't know everything. We do know something and it's just best to extrapolate. <shrug>

After all, there are error rates to our weight scales and body fat measurements but we don't stop using them do we?