Eating out - Asian Edition

[Draft]

I was out last night for thai and, for general health reasons, I'm trying to avoid anything dowsed with MSG. So I had some beef kebabs and a red curry. I have no idea if this was low(er) added MSG or not but it was a feeling I had.

Can anyone help me as to which food options at Chinesee, Thai etc restaraunts will have less added MSG.

[Nik Antunovich]

Do you have a reaction to MSG specifically?

You could just ask them not to add it. As far as I know it is usually added during cooking and not in the food prep so it should be easy to exclude (expected it's not reheated food). I'm not completely sure but anything without sauce of any sort is probably not going to contain MSG. Sadly most things at those places have sauce! If there is no added MSG in the food they'll probably add a ton of salt so you'd be no better off anyhow.

[holdenman]

Do they have noodle canteen in Wellington? Very tasty and no msg

[Dontrunwithknives]

Nearly everything has MSG. I gave up looking for it.

These ALWAYS contain MSG:

Glutamate

(E 620)

Glutamic acid

(E 620)

Monosodium glutamate

(E 621)

Monopotassium glutamate

(E 622)

Calcium glutamate

(E 623)

Monoammonium glutamate

(E 624)

Magnesium glutamate

(E 625)

Natrium glutamate (natrium is Latin/German for sodium)

Gelatin

Calcium caseinate

Sodium caseinate

Textured protein

anything "hydrolyzed"

any "hydrolyzed ... protein"

Yeast nutrient

Yeast extract

Yeast food

Autolyzed yeast

Vetsin

Ajinomoto

These OFTEN contain MSG or create MSG during processing:

Carrageenan

Maltodextrin

Malt extract

Natural pork flavoring

Citric acid

Malt flavoring

Bouillon and Broth

Natural chicken flavoring

Soy protein isolate

Natural beef flavoring

Ultra-pasteurized

Soy sauce

Stock Barley malt

Soy sauce extract

Whey protein concentrate

Pectin Soy protein

Whey protein Protease

Soy protein concentrate

Whey protein isolate

Protease enzymes

Anything protein fortified

Flavors(s) & Flavoring(s)

Anything enzyme modified

Anything fermented

Natural flavor(s) & flavoring(s)

Enzymes

anything Seasonings (the word "seasonings")

http://www.truthinlabeling.org/hiddensources.html

[runveerun]

MSG could be the key to you guys gaining weight, taken from 70's big:

"There was a time at the Old Westside gym where I couldn’t gain weight to save my fucking life.

There was this dude who trained there who could just put on weight like fucking magic. He’d go from 198 to 308 and then to 275 and back down to 198. And he was never fat. It was amazing.

I finally asked him one day how he did it.

“You mean I never told you the secret to gaining weight? Come outside and I’ll fill you in.”

Now remember, we’re at Westside Barbell. And this guy wants to go outside to talk so no one else can hear. Think about that for a minute. What the hell is he going to tell me? This must be some serious shit if we have to go outside, I thought.

So we get outside and he starts talking.

“For breakfast you need to eat four of those breakfast sandwiches from McDonalds. I don’t care which ones you get, but make sure to get four. Order four hash browns, too. Now grab two packs of mayonnaise and put them on the hash browns and then slip them into the sandwiches. Squish that shit down and eat. That’s your breakfast.”

At this point I’m thinking this guy is nuts. But he’s completely serious.

“For lunch you’re gonna eat Chinese food. Now I don’t want you eating that crappy stuff. You wanna get the stuff with MSG. None of that non-MSG bullshit. I don’t care what you eat but you have to sit down and eat for at least 45 minutes straight. You can’t let go of the fork. Eat until your eyes swell up and become slits and you start to look like the woman behind the counter.”

“For dinner you’re gonna order an extra-large pizza with everything on it. Literally everything. If you don’t like sardines, don’t put ’em on, but anything else that you like you have to load it on there. After you pay the delivery guy, I want you to take the pie to your coffee table, open that f*cker up, and grab a bottle of oil. It can be olive oil, canola oil, whatever. Anything but motor oil. And I want you to pour that shit over the pie until half of the bottle is gone. Just soak the shit out of it.”

“Now before you lay into it, I want you to sit on your couch and just stare at that f*cker. I want you to understand that that pizza right there is keeping you from your goals.”

This guy is in a zen-like state when he’s talking about this.

“Now you’re on the clock,” he continues. “After 20 minutes your brain is going to tell you you’re full. Don’t listen to that shit. You have to try and eat as much of the pizza as you can before that 20-minute mark. Double up pieces if you have to. I’m telling you now, you’re going to get three or four pieces in and you’re gonna want to quit. You fucking can’t quit. You have to sit on that couch until every piece is done.

And if you can’t finish it, don’t you ever come back to me and tell me you can’t gain weight. ’Cause I’m gonna tell you that you don’t give a f*ck about getting bigger and you don’t care how much you lift!”

Did I do it? Hell yeah. Started the next day and did it for two months. Went from 260 pounds to 297 pounds. And I didn’t get much fatter. One of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my life, though."

[thatwaslight]

hahaha awesome!might give it a go