Food Change my mind... Oriental dishes are, in general, better than Western dishes.

[Warrior Spirit]

Most people enjoy trips to Panda Express more than McDonalds. Even white Americans prefer Chinese buffets than diners.

Do any of you actually disagree?

 

[Rusty Angel]

To me, it depends on the quality of the food, and just whatever I'm in the mood for. I don't like Macdonalds, but other than that, I don't typically crave one over the other.

I will say, though, I'd probably choose a good diner over a Chinese buffet should the occasion arise. That might be more of a germ thing, though, as I'd choose a diner over any type of buffet.

 

[Nu Epiq]

I've never eaten at Panda Express. I have gone inside to pick up an order to deliver and I can't say, after looking at what's there, I'm inclined to eat it. There are far better Asian Cuisine, with better quality. But I enjoy a variety of food, from all over, and I don't feel one is better than the other because in the end it all goes down the same.

 

[AaronMk]

Panda Express is hella mid. It's good to go in and get a cheap meal fast and that's about it. I would not rank PE especially higher than any type of food.

To that end, Asian and "Western" food has no inherent superiority at all what's so ever.

 

[EliCatLady]

Okay maybe this is out of the scope of the discussion, but properly made homemade western cuisine (Usually) trumps the equivalent of eastern cuisine, with the drawback of being obscenely less healthy.

 

[Warrior Spirit]

Okay maybe this is out of the scope of the discussion, but properly made homemade western cuisine (Usually) trumps the equivalent of eastern cuisine, with the drawback of being obscenely less healthy.

If you have a high tolerance for a very high fat meal, American meals are gonna be heaven. But how much of that can you take? It sometimes feel like you're eating heated lard.

 

[EliCatLady]

If you have a high tolerance for a very high fat meal, American meals are gonna be heaven. But how much of that can you take? It sometimes feel like you're eating heated lard.

Sometimes I feel like eating heated lard would be easier to stomach, but I'll admit the first few bites are heavenly. What's your favourite dish?

 

[Warrior Spirit]

Sometimes I feel like eating heated lard would be easier to stomach, but I'll admit the first few bites are heavenly. What's your favourite dish?

Peking duck is number one. But if it's something from a diner here in the States... I'd say chicken fried steak or a Philly sandwich.

I don't understand why lots of people like pancakes. It's just flour. I don't understand anyone liking them.

 

[AaronMk]

Imagine roasting "Western Cuisine" because you confuse it with "American Fast/Casual" food smh

 

[Jannah]

You're not wrong tbh, although fast food is not what I'd use to determine this. European cuisine in general, though, I've always found rather bland in comparison to anything Asia has to offer. There are some exceptions, however, such as Mediterranean and Balkan cuisine. Like, a person can't consume those and tell me they aren't delicious.

 

[Shawn Connery]

Panda Express, only the finest sample of Asian cuisine

 

[GodlyDnD]

Modern western diet, the Standard American Diet, is indulgent in use of animal products with abundant fat and cholesterol with that, which leads to the epidemic health problems. The diets of mostly vegetables, whole grains, and fruits is much better for any having them.

 

[AaronMk]

Panda Express, only the finest sample of Asian cuisine

McDonal, the finest example of the entire history of Western food



From Mesopotamia to Spain there has been only borgor

 

[Warrior Spirit]

Modern western diet, the Standard American Diet, is indulgent in use of animal products with abundant fat and cholesterol with that, which leads to the epidemic health problems. The diets of mostly vegetables, whole grains, and fruits is much better for any having them.

Unless you are a paleo diet fan.

 

[GodlyDnD]

Unless you are a paleo diet fan.

I would say I am paleo, but not that way. Current studies show already that vegetable foods (that in fact includes fruits, grains, nuts, and seeds) were a greater part of the diet, more than in the modern western diet, of stone age people. They had a great amount of fiber. I am actually growing closer to stone age living as it is, with simple living, though not escaped from civilization, so far.

 

[YaGurlArchy]

Speaking as someone who has lived in China, I can safely say that Panda Express is not East Asian food.

That aside, yeah, I'll take genuine Cantonese food over "typical" German or French stuff any day of the week.

 

[Hyde.]

Both are good in their own rights. Boiling the entire east down to "Panda Express" is mind-boggling though, considering that Panda Express is awful, while I've eaten at some amazing Korean and Japanese steakhouses. This is not to mention that I'm also completely obsessed with so, so many Indian and Mediterranean dishes. Same deal as referring to western cuisine as just McDonalds. You're completely overlooking Cajun cuisine, food from South America (Peruvian chicken slaps!), and of course, my personal favorite from up north, poutine.

I'm of the opinion that, if you wanna live a full life, you gotta indulge on both.

Except British cuisine.

I'll never eat "beans on toast".

 

[AaronMk]

I'm of the expert opinion that "The Orient" begins at Poland. Therefore if you like a bagel schmeer you are eating Oriental food

 

[Warrior Spirit]

Both are good in their own rights. Boiling the entire east down to "Panda Express" is mind-boggling though, considering that Panda Express is awful, while I've eaten at some amazing Korean and Japanese steakhouses. This is not to mention that I'm also completely obsessed with so, so many Indian and Mediterranean dishes. Same deal as referring to western cuisine as just McDonalds. You're completely overlooking Cajun cuisine, food from South America (Peruvian chicken slaps!), and of course, my personal favorite from up north, poutine.

I'm of the opinion that, if you wanna live a full life, you gotta indulge on both.

Except British cuisine.

I'll never eat "beans on toast".

Hmm... I think I am a bit more open minded with trying new stuff.

If you think about it, toast requires something meaty to make it complete. Beans are not meat, but they're close enough because they are protein.

 

[Daisie]

Even white Americans prefer Chinese buffets than diners.

As a white American
No

 

[GodlyDnD]

Hmm... I think I am a bit more open minded with trying new stuff.

If you think about it, toast requires something meaty to make it complete. Beans are not meat, but they're close enough because they are protein.

Rather, it is more correct to say they have protein, as any meat has protein, and vegetables have protein. The food item is never just protein, some have more, some have less. So peanut butter while not being protein has a lot more protein than other things. One can choose things that are not meat that are still really high in protein content. Protein is really amino acids chained in various ways, that all living organisms have. As long as we are not starving, our body makes various amino acids for building up as protein in our cells. But there are nine our bodies cannot make and these are called the essential aminos, that we need to consume. They can come from meat or animal products, or from food we can have from plants, with having a good variety.

 

[AaronMk]

Rather, it is more correct to say they have protein, as any meat has protein, and vegetables have protein. The food item is never just protein, some have more, some have less. So peanut butter while not being protein has a lot more protein than other things. One can choose things that are not meat that are still really high in protein content. Protein is really amino acids chained in various ways, that all living organisms have. As long as we are not starving, our body makes various amino acids for building up as protein in our cells. But there are nine our bodies cannot make and these are called the essential aminos, that we need to consume. They can come from meat or animal products, or from food we can have from plants, with having a good variety.

Beans don't really have a lot of *complete* protein. They contain a lot of incomplete proteins. Legumes like peanuts as well as nuts and seeds often do have relatively high levels of protein depending on what exactly you are eating or how they are ultimately prepared (how perhaps some dead weight is removed).

The proteins of beans is however completed when you also eat rice. You don't have to eat rice at the same time as you eat beans. But if you have beans in the morning and rice in the evening you ingest enough of the various amino acids just floating freely in either that your body can then take out of storage and use to make a protein, since amino acids aren't always immediately useful for your body's metabolic functions but the body can just tuck those away until it gets something it can use them on to fill nutiritional needs.

 

[GodlyDnD]

Beans don't really have a lot of *complete* protein. They contain a lot of incomplete proteins. Legumes like peanuts as well as nuts and seeds often do have relatively high levels of protein depending on what exactly you are eating or how they are ultimately prepared (how perhaps some dead weight is removed).

The proteins of beans is however completed when you also eat rice. You don't have to eat rice at the same time as you eat beans. But if you have beans in the morning and rice in the evening you ingest enough of the various amino acids just floating freely in either that your body can then take out of storage and use to make a protein, since amino acids aren't always immediately useful for your body's metabolic functions but the body can just tuck those away until it gets something it can use them on to fill nutiritional needs.

I'm not disagreeing, my phrase having a good variety means including everything, even like beans and whole grains (rice itself is not needed if other grains are used, I do it that way), while each food from plants does not have all the essential amino acids that are chained together in proteins, the good variety of them does provide that, and provides other things needed that are not from animal products. If heart and circulation problems would be avoided, and cancers be avoided, and a number of other health problems avoided, having whole food all plant-based would be wanted, I found the evidence is there from doctors and studies done about this. Supplements that are used with this are no problem, as Supplements are needed by almost anyone, and the others not doing this have medications needed too.

 

[AaronMk]

You actually really don't need supplements

 

[Warrior Spirit]

You actually really don't need supplements

What is this in reference to?