> Here's something off yans website;
> "Most of the Chinese dishes in restaurants seem to be fairly oil. Is
> Chinese cooking fattening?
>
> Absolutely not!

I must say Chinese restaurant and Chinese home cooking is somewhat
different. Chinese restaurant geared for taste (use too much oil and fat for
taste much like butter, sugar and heavy cream used in European style
restaurants) while Chinese home cooking is geared for health with much less
deep fried stuff, more veggies and fish. The proportions are different too
whereas at home the meat dishes are smaller in portions for taste with a
larger portion of rice or noodles. Usually Chinese don't have dessert, wine
or beer at home. Tea is less fattening.

If you check out the Chinese moon cake, (
http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...earch+Image s
) it has about as much fat as Mexican refried beans or some soul food
dishes - heart attack on one plate. The difference is moon cake is only
served once a year. So I couldn't say that Chinese food is not fattening
although you have more thinner Chinese in particular and thinner Asians in
general.