Chinese food vs American food

In the States, I tended to be a pretty healthy eater. I just feel better that way. In China, I've always felt like that was a lot harder to do, especially eating enough produce.

Fruit isn't an issue, you can find it at small stands and corner stores lining pretty much any street. Vegetables, on the other hand, you usually have to go to a larger grocery store to find, or catch a man riding around with a cart of them for sale.

Availability of produce aside, it's kind of interesting to think about whose food is healthier by nature.

Chinese food is far, far greasier, full of msg (regular salt is really hard to find) and usually unregulated by any kind of FDA like agency, so not very clean. On the other hand, overall, everything is very, VERY fresh and grown/raised without chemicals, hormones, pesticides, etc.— the up side of deregulation. You're usually buying your produce directly from the grower, even as restaurant, and meats are often fresh enough that you can see the rest of the animal carcass slaughtered out back if you really wanted.

And who doesn't want that? Ha.