Fan Zhihong, an associate professor at the College of Food Science of China Agricultural University, said that when people go out to eat, they often order hot dishes according to their heads, and then add cold dishes, soup and snacks, so they can't finish them.
"When you enter the restaurant, pay attention to the amount of food at other tables and then order as appropriate."
Xie Wenmei, Secretary-General of the Nutrition and Food Professional Committee of China Cuisine Association, also taught her the trick of ordering food while dining with reporters. "Generally, three people eat, and it is just right to order 3 hot 1 cold. The three hot dishes can be vegetarian dishes, meat dishes and semi-meat and semi-vegetarian dishes; In terms of practice, it can include cooking, stews and soups, which is more reasonable. " It should also be noted that the weight of ordinary cooking in each restaurant is roughly the same, but some special dishes will be larger, such as boiled fish, northeast stew, Dongpo meat and so on. When ordering, you can ask the waiter to indicate the size of the plate, so as not to wait until the dish is served before exclaiming, "This big plate can't be eaten!" "
Fan Zhihong also said that ordering should be based on the situation of the guests at the table. If there are more women and children, you can refer to the principle of one person and one dish; If there are more young men, you can add one or two dishes as appropriate.
Selection method is more important than selection of dishes.
"Now everyone will consciously place some healthier dishes when eating out. However, many people choose the right ingredients but ignore the practice. In fact, the choice of practice is more important than the selection of dishes. " Professor Chen Xiafei, director of the Nutrition Department of Shanghai Huadong Hospital, said that taking tofu as an example, it is healthy to stew or make soup, but in some dishes, tofu is fried first and then burned-such as the home-cooked tofu that is often eaten in the north, which adds a lot of oil and calories. Xie Wenmei also attaches great importance to the practice of dishes, and the reporter has a deep understanding when dining with her. Professor Xie ordered a fish with vinegar pepper. The method is to stew the fish and Flammulina velutipes into a clear soup, and then season it with salt, pepper and vinegar. "This dish has soup, little oil and mushrooms, which is very healthy." Xie Wenmei said. When dining out and ordering food, people generally have a problem that there are too many meat dishes and almost no vegetarian dishes. Sometimes there is only one dish of vegetables in a big table, and one person will lose it with one chopstick. "We generally recommend a table with half meat and half vegetables." Fan Zhihong said.
In addition, experts also gave the following suggestions on the choice of cold dishes, hot dishes and staple foods.
Cold dishes should be made fresh. Fan Zhihong said, cold dishes have less fat, and they are good in meat and vegetables. If you order more refreshing vegetarian food, you can balance the problem of too much fat in the main course and too much protein. However, most consumers habitually place fish-like cold dishes such as sauce beef, which makes cold dishes lose this function. A better choice is to mix raw vegetables and vegetables dipped in sauce, add starchy foods (such as buckwheat noodles, fern root powder, etc.), root foods (such as lotus root slices, yam, etc.) and fruit salads, and add one or two fish and bean products with little oil. Chen Xiafei reminded that many food poisoning are caused by cold dishes, so it is best to order cold dishes that are sold now, such as big mixed vegetables. Many salted ducks, pickled chicken feet, etc. are refrigerated in advance. If the storage conditions are unqualified, it is easy to cause problems.
Light hot dishes are fresher. Northerners have a strong taste, but a table of dishes should be salty, light, sour and spicy, so as not to make the taste buds too tired. "In fact, strong cooking will mask the stale smell of food ingredients, so restaurants often enthusiastically encourage diners to order such dishes." Chen Xiafei said that when I go out to eat, I rarely order such food that I can't see the original color and can't eat the original flavor. Fan Zhihong suggested that when ordering food, we should order some dishes with refreshing flavor, such as steamed, boiled and stewed dishes. One or two strong dishes are enough. Serve with a hot and sour dish to refresh your stomach.
The staple food is mostly cooked. The staple food at home is often single, but it is different in restaurants. Pumpkin cakes, scallion cakes, durian cakes, Dandan Noodles, steamed dumplings and steamed buns are all available. "Generally speaking, a lot of oil is put in the snack staple food called XX Crisp to make a crisp taste. It is best to eat less." Chen Xiafei said: "Because the oil content of other dishes in restaurants is much higher than that of cooking at home, I usually only choose boiled staple foods, such as clear soup noodles, steamed corn buns, wild vegetable dumplings, etc. The vegetarian stuffed buns are also good, and the skin of the dough is easy to digest and the stuffing is not greasy." "Many people eat staple food last, which easily leads to excessive calories. In fact, it is most appropriate to serve staple food in the middle of the meal, which will not destroy the atmosphere of the table, but also eat healthier. " Xie Wenmei said.
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