Chinese Takeout Stuff

Meal: dinner (Thu 10/28)

From: a Chinese restaurant

Cost: N/A

Location: Chinatown

I got home from the gym starving, after playing basketball for the first time in a few weeks since I injured my leg. My leg felt good and I was ready to eat. I found some leftovers from Chinese takeout in the kitchen... so I ate it... ALL!

Bean Curd and Chinese Vegetables

Beef and Chinese Vegetables

Chicken

Taste: greasy and filling, but not all that great. Acceptable.

Conclusion: wish I had some rice with all this grease...

Drink: Orange juice (Tropicana Pure Premium with Calcium) mixed with Pellegrino sparkling water.

Random A$$ Chinese Dinner

Meal: dinner (Tue 10/12)

From: a Chinese restaurant

Cost: probably cheap, but cost me $0.00.

Location: Chinatown

I got home from playing some basketball at the gym and was pleasantly surprised to find some containers of Chinese food that my mom had purchased for dinner. Primarily 1 styrofoam container from a "pick four things" style restaurant and 2 other containers with Chinese BBQ short ribs and a bean curd skins rapped around mushrooms.

Taste: everything was pretty greasy, so it all went down smooth and tasted good (got to love fat!).

Conclusion: a pretty fulfilling meal after playing some basketball.

Drink: some Tropicana Pure Premium Orange Juice (Calcium, lots of pulp style) mixed with some Pellegrino sparkling water.

Chinese Hot Dog Bun

Meal: breakfast (Sun 10/3)

From: a Chinese bakery

Cost: less than $1

Location: Queens

Sunday morning breakfast at my girlfriends place usually means something from a Chinese bakery.

Chinese Hot Dog Bun

Taste: I was pretty starving, but there is a lot of sodium and fat in Chinese bakery stuff, so of course it tasted really good.

Conclusion: I think if you eat too much of this stuff you die.

Drink: my girlfriend made brewed some coffee at home, no sense paying almost $1 for worse crap at a Chinese bakery, especially since my girlfriend just got a fancy coffee maker.

Chinese Takeout Dinner

Meal: dinner (Sat 10/2)

From: a Chinese takeout restaurant

Cost: around $15 (for 2)

Location: Queens

So there was a Yankee-Red Sox double header on local tv (usually all the games are on the Yes! network, which neither I or my girlfriend have) and my girlfriend for some reason was not completely against watching it. So we decided to order-in and went with some "Chinese" food. Technically what we ordered, aside from the rice, is Chinese-American food. They do not have teriyaki beef on a stick or General Tao's chicken with as it is called in Chinese, 'Western broccoli'.

So the Yankees ultimately split the doubleheader and ended up losing the division to the Rays, based on strength of head-to-head match ups. However, the Yankees, although scampering in, made the playoffs. The playoffs start on Wednesday, so I need to start setting up my meals accordingly.

Taste: of course everything tasted good.

Conclusion: probably 100 times the daily recommended amount of sodium.

Drink: a can of Coke Zero with ice.

Chinese Moon Cake

Meal: snack (Thu 9/30)
From: a Chinese bakery
Cost: free
Location: Chinatown (Manhattan)

There was still half of a Chinese moon cake in my fridge... so I ate it!

There is an egg yolk hidden inside...

Taste: when something is sugary and oily it is going to taste good!

Conclusion: probably not so healthy...

Drink: a can of Fanta Orange Zero with ice.

Chinese Bread...

Meal: breakfast (Thu 9/16)
From: some Chinese bakery

Cost: free

Location: Chinatown

Someone bought some Chinese bakery bread instead of regular bread yesterday. The key difference is Chinese bakery bread is sweet tasting, probably because they add a lot of sugar into the dough.

 

 Please note: this bread is oddly shaped because it was crushed by something, normally this type of bread is square.

Even after only being in the fridge over night, the bread had developed some moisture, so I gave it a good toasting to get rid of that. The bread smelled really good after the toasting, and a tried some, it was sweet. Literally very sweet, so no need to add any jelly or jam.

Taste: as expected this bread was pretty sweet, all it needed a a little toasting, but it was good.

Conclusion: this bread tastes good because of all the sugar in it.

Lazy Dinner and the Yankees WIN!

Meal: dinner (Tue 9/14)

From: my fridge

Cost: $0 [I hope this keeps up!]

Location: my kitchen

After eating my protein bar I decided to look around in my fridge for dinner options. I found some Chinese vegetable. There was a big bag full of them. I have no idea how long they were in the fridge, but a lot of them had turned yellow and looked potentially inedible. After discarding the cleared inedible pieces I washed and boiled the rest.

The non-yellow pieces came out looking pretty decent.

I found a raw chicken thigh and decided to lather it up with sweet chilli sauce and throw it in the oven. I figured since the chicken would probably take a long time to cook I should take my vegetables with me and see what was on TV. Lucky for me the Yankees-Rays game was still on, tied 7-7 in the 7th inning. I poured some oyster sauce on the vegetables and ate them. While waiting for my chicken to cook I watched the game continue into the 9th inning and still tied.

The chicken came out great, I love that sweet chilli sauce.

As I started eating the chicken I saw the Yankees take the lead in the 10th inning with a pinch hit home run. By the time I had finished my chicken the Yankees had won with an impressive game ending throw out at 3rd base of one of baseball's fastest players.

Taste: the vegetables with the oyster sauce was delicious and the chicken with sweet chilli sauce was even better.

Conclusion: the protein bar I ate earlier in the evening was only 200 calories but was pretty filling, so the stack of vegetables and one piece of chicken was enough for me.

Drink: a can of Coke Zero with ice (no need to worry I recycle all my cans). (Do you know why aluminum recycling is awesome for the environment? If not read THIS)

Chinese Bakery

Meal: breakfast (Sat 9/11)
From: a Chinese bakery
Cost: N/A
Location: Queens

 Hot Dog and Scallion Bun

Taste: greasy and delicious

Conclusion: no complaints, a filling and delicious breakfast!

Drink: homemade iced coffee

Iced Coffee

Pick 4 Things (Chinese stuff over rice)

Meal: dinner (Wed 9/8)
From: some Chinese "restaurant"
Cost: $3.75
Location: Chinatown

I got home from the gym, exhausted and starving. Unfortunately, there was nothing in the fridge, except for some 3 week old bread. So I decided to grab something quick and cheap in Chinatown... the dreaded pick 4 things. Basically, they give you a box with rice and they have trays with Chinese dishes and pick 4 of them that they plot in your box cafeteria style.

The Box

 

My Meal

Another View of My Meal

I got steamed mackerel, ground pork cake, fried tofu and pan fried Chinese vegetables.

Taste: the fact that I was starving and everything was extra greasy meant it tasted very good.

Conclusion: even for Chinese for this is cheap. I am not sure of the true nutritional value, but I was starving and this is the fastest and cheapest food I can get and I bet it is still healthier than American fast food.

Drink: free soup that comes with the meal.

Soup

(I think it was just vegetable broth.)

Sunday Morning Chinese Breakfast

Meal: breakfast (Sun 9/5)

From: a Chinese bakery on Queens Blvd.

Cost: around $2

Location: Queens

Chinese Scallion Hot Dog Bun

I think there was a small amount of Cheese holding the scallions on the bun. This greasy bun is in my usual Sunday breakfast rotation, and for good reason, it is GOOD!

Chinese Ham and Corn Bun

The corn and ham were embedded in mayonnaise, that combo sounds weird but worked surprisingly well. This bun was pretty greasy, but tasty.

Taste: delicious

Conclusion: by the time I got my hands on these buns I was pretty starving, so these greasy delights were greatly welcome by my stomach.

Drink: a glass of homemade ice coffee.