"I eat Chinese food and I'm hungry again in 30 minutes"

[AznSensation]

Wrong. It's the MSG (Monosodium Glutamate) that makes you "feel" full. It wears out quickly and thus you feel hungry. Chinese restaurants use this (especially the buffet) so that you won't eat as much. Less eating = Less food required to be served = more profit for them.

 

[Spineshank]

Its like that for me..not like 30 mins but maybe like 2 hours.

 

[Riceninja]

new kids on the block had a bunch of hits
chinese food makes me sick

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: Sawyer
How is Chinese any less filling than anything else? It has beef and chicken on the bar among other things. How could chicken/beef at a Chinese place be any less filling than chicken or beef at a different type restaurant? Is this just one of those things people hear everyone else say and repeat?

I am always full for hours if I eat Chinese with rice. Actually somebody researched this 10 or 15 years ago.

 

[dighn]

Rice is pretty filling to me. But then I'm asian so my physiology might be better tuned to handle carbs. American fast food is more filling, but that's not necessarily a good thing

 

[Kirby]

I always assumed it was because of the MSG.