Salt on Chinese food???!!
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I am soooo tempted to order a Chinese right now but every time I order the food has so much salt content I wake up in the night gasping for a pint of water, I have tried a couple of Chinkies now and always get the same is it just me??
>> Edited by Bomber Denton on Friday 30th December 21:16
>> Edited by Bomber Denton on Friday 30th December 21:16
Although it tends to be Monosodium Glutomate, not the common table salt we usually think of. Interesting(ish) fact about MSG, it's a self-limiting flavour enhancer, i.e. once you get to the ideal quantity, adding more does not further enhance the flavour... however it is a very good laxative in large quantities, making it great for practical jokes and wind-ups 
>> Edited by Jay GTI on Friday 30th December 21:29
>> Edited by Jay GTI on Friday 30th December 21:29
BliarOut said:
So take a pint of water to bed and enjoy 
Says me, tucking into a Zinger Tower meal.... With extra salt
Man of my own heart
Zinger TOWER meal - do it properly man!
Burp, who cares about capitals.... That was frickin tastyBurp.
My mistake, I didnt notice the tower already written there - too much vodka
Now I want a tower meal. Wonder if anyone at home will give me a lift
Jay GTI said:
Although it tends to be Monosodium Glutomate, not the common table salt we usually think of. Interesting(ish) fact about MSG, it's a self-limiting flavour enhancer, i.e. once you get to the ideal quantity, adding more does not further enhance the flavour... however it is a very good laxative in large quantities, making it great for practical jokes and wind-ups
>> Edited by Jay GTI on Friday 30th December 21:29
aah, that must be why I hit the pan like a belt-fed mortar in the morning then!
Bomber Denton said:
Although it tends to be Monosodium Glutomate, not the common table salt we usually think of. Interesting(ish) fact about MSG, it's a self-limiting flavour enhancer, i.e. once you get to the ideal quantity, adding more does not further enhance the flavour... however it is a very good laxative in large quantities, making it great for practical jokes and wind-ups
>> Edited by Jay GTI on Friday 30th December 21:29
aah, that must be why I hit the pan like a belt-fed mortar in the morning then!
Ditto.
Actually, I find the effects of high levels of MSG only take an hour or so to manifest!
I have been "loading" with junk food over the last week because I'm giving it up all together for 2006.
I gave up drinking the year before, so I know I can do it.
But it ain't gonna be easy seeing as I work in a shopping centre with a massive "food court."
Bomber Denton said:
I am soooo tempted to order a Chinese right now but every time I order the food has so much salt content I wake up in the night gasping for a pint of water, I have tried a couple of Chinkies now and always get the same is it just me??
>> Edited by Bomber Denton on Friday 30th December 21:16
its not the salt but the MSG
monosodium glutamate.
symptoms range from increased heartrate,irregular heartbeat to thirst to swollen hands and feet.
its the MSG that makes it taste so yummy!!!!
jessica said:
I am soooo tempted to order a Chinese right now but every time I order the food has so much salt content I wake up in the night gasping for a pint of water, I have tried a couple of Chinkies now and always get the same is it just me??
>> Edited by Bomber Denton on Friday 30th December 21:16
its not the salt but the MSG
monosodium glutamate.
symptoms range from increased heartrate,irregular heartbeat to thirst to swollen hands and feet.
its the MSG that makes it taste so yummy!!!!
Yea exactly.. my local chinese when I lived in the US was damn good until they changed cooks and proclaimed a non-MSG menu (keeps the health-nazis at bay) it tasted like wet cardboard. I told them why they would lose my custom and they since then pumped up the chemicals just in my take-away.
..could explain my fat fingers and hairy palms though.
Bomber Denton said:
I am soooo tempted to order a Chinese right now but every time I order the food has so much salt content I wake up in the night gasping for a pint of water, I have tried a couple of Chinkies now and always get the same is it just me??
>> Edited by Bomber Denton on Friday 30th December 21:16
I have a solution. Years back we lived in china and suffered from EXACTLY the same problem. It turn out they always put a flavour enhancer called MSG (monosoduim glutamate) in. They also put it in crisps. We always used to say to the restaurant that we didn;t want any MSG in our food, and the thirst and headaches went away
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