How many vegetables and fruits do you eat everyday: Asian perspective

[AndrewJin]

Having lived abroad, I know that westerners eat too much meat and not enough vegetables. The reasons being:
1. Relative to income, meat is usually quite cheap.
2. They have no idea how to season or serve vegetables. Usually its just eaten raw or steamed or occasionally stewed in a soup (think carrots and onion soup). In western societies, its an ingrained cultural trope that children hate vegetables because they are so unappetizing. When they go abroad and find this idea is not so common elsewhere, they get so surprised.

Yep, same feeling when I was abroad as an exchange student.
I had to convince myself, if u didn't take them, u would suffer from blah blah blah.
Seriously, their cooking of veggie so unappetising, but healthier?

 

[Lure]

First time know that u people eat very little meat from that ranking.
But there is a turkish BBQ restaurant in front of me rented apartment in Shanghai.

When Turkish people cook at home they predominantly cook vegetable recipes. When we eat outside we mostly eat meat. That's a distinction. That's why most of the Turkish restaurants' menu is based heavily on meat, yet we eat mostly vegetable recipes at home.

But there are also a lot of restaurants in Istanbul which makes vegetable based Turkish foods as well. But, like you observed, in abroad Turkish cusine is mainly known as heavily meat based.

 

[AndrewJin]

Yup, my mom made meat stuffed bitter melons all of the time. I do see white American chefs cook with them on tv shows at time. Mostly we bought from Viet market but any Oriental shop run by a chinese should have them to be honest. I would also add bamboo shoot too, but it been too long since I have young bamboo shoot.

Water melon is a favorite of mine. Don't buy them much anymore since it is a hustle. And I really don't know how to pick them. Americans are fine with picking random watermelon. But it is an art. My uncle would spent couple of minutes pick them out and what not. I would come out really red and sweet. But often American melons seemed bland watery.

I have been cooking my own food for a while. Haven't had good luck with turning raw fishes into delicious meal

Fried frozen fishes came out well. I tried cooking salmon, and all of that white goo came out. Which is okay but it never came out good for me. Used to love catfish a lot when I was younger. lol imagine a 6/7 years old gnawing on catfish head. That was like my favorite thing. I am way too Americanized now to enjoy fishhead like that.



BTW, my uncle used to go to china town to have many things but really focus on Ipomoea aquatica or chinese spinach. It is just peasant things that grew like weeds in the backyard. And yet, when you in the USA, you have to go out of your way to China town to enjoy a piece of home.

I am bad at cooking meat, I mostly do some fried egg with a veggie(onion/pepper/luffa/Chinese chives)
Yes, picking a watermelon is an art.
Here in a fruit shop, there are way too many different kinds of watermelon, I am always confused.
Seed or seedless, hard of soft, light red or dark red, too many kinds.

Have u had any Hami melon before? Of all the melons, I think Hami melon is the best, 100 times better than watermelon, but pricier.

 

[Whazzup]

Too much vegetables means good stamina you can run fast but we'll run more

 

[Lure]

Let's go on with the best possible form that an artichoke can take (Zeytinyağlı Enginar) :

You guys would have loved it so much if our idiot chefs stops only making meat based foods in abroad! When I was a kid I used to crave fo this one. It tastes great and it's very good for liver. In Turkey this is mostly served with Raki in order to counteract the damage that alcohol gives to liver.

 

[liubang]

Have u had any Hami melon before? Of all the melons, I think Hami melon is the best, 100 times better than watermelon, but pricier.

hmmm, seem like something I need to drive into Chicago (a few hours away) China town to get.

So no, I haven't have it yet. One of these day when I go back to Vietnam, I would binge on fruits.

But thanks, I will keep my eyes out for them when I am downtown.

 

[AndrewJin]

Let's go on with the best possible form that an artichoke can take (Zeytinyağlı Enginar) :
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You guys would have loved it so much if our idiot chefs stops only making meat based foods in abroad!

BBQ meat, milk pudding and likes.
Frankly, BBQ meat not so good in that Shanghai's Turkish restaurant and not cheap(100+ yuan per person).
And after having so much meet, I felt uncomfortable, wasting a lot of meat.
If they provide such beautiful veggie dishes, I will definitely go back to try!

 

[powastick]

Stir fried cabbage with Turmeric powder in Malaysia- Indian food?

 

[prima99]

the National food's is Vegetables so no surprise for Indonesia

Gado Gado (mix-max Vegetables with Peanut Sauce)

and gado gado by Korean Chef

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Hey girl, when I attended my high school, I lived on campus for weeks!
I didn't have computer or smart phone. The only consolation was my CD player and a pile of Deutsche Grammophone CDs(@Götterdämmerung ). Good days though, so memorable, miss playing board games with classmates in dorm.

So, you are a friend of classical European music. I still have hundreds of Deutsche Grammophon vinyl discs.

 

[AndrewJin]

So, you are a friend of classical European music. I still have hundreds of Deutsche Grammophon vinyl discs.

But my CD all fake, haha, although look completely same, 10yuan per CD, copyrighted CD at least 30yuan(I know original version 100yuan) . Now I just download, give u a link, u can search in English ed2000.com(music movie game etc). Got 500G FLAC music of DG/Decca/RCA/EMI). Sorry, Germany!

 

[prima99]

oh f**k me.. how can i forgot about this Food?

Cap Cai or 雜菜 or zácài or cha̍p-chhài. yup it's named Cap Cai in Indonesia. ancient China-Indonesia Vegetarian Food?

 

[Edison Chen]

I like yummy food, whether meat or vegetables....

 

[AndrewJin]

I like yummy food, whether meat or vegetables....

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I like this combination, BBQ lamb + soup, we have it at school canteen!

 

[Edison Chen]

I like this combination, BBQ lamb + soup, we have it at school canteen!

Yeah, it would be nicer if with a bottle of ice cold beer.


Only after leaving school, I start to miss school canteen food, cheap, safe, delicous.