Eating Out: Chinese

[peta]

I have a work dinner to go to and will be only 3 1/2 weeks into the Autoimmune Protocol. The dinner is at a Chinese restaurant and it does gluten free meals too. What should I be looking at to eat. I will have a chance to go in before the dinner to talk to chef before hand. Thanks to anyone who helps answer this question

[maren]

Apart from gluten, do avoid glutamate (flavor enhancer), soy and funny sauces. Try to order fried meat with lots of stir-fried vegetables, preferably without any sauce.

[peta]

What about oyster sauce?

[salixisme]

I would avoid all sauces - most will contain soy, and a host of other chemicals and additives including MSG.

I looked up the ingredients in oyster sauce - water, sugar, salt, oyster extract, monosodium glutamate, modified corn starch, wheat flour, caramel coloiur... Definitely one to avoid.

[Irene Adamson]

We recently went to a birthday dinner for a grandson at an Asia place. I called in advance and spoke with a manager about my restrictions. They were very helpful and I had my choices made before even going in. From talking to the manager, I found that most of their meats have been marinated in soy sauce. That eliminated a lot! I recommend you call in advance.

[peta]

I think I will go in at talk to the chef, but I might smuggle in some coconut aminos so that I have some flavour.

[peta]

Well I had Gluten free honey chicken with real honey for the sauce and potato starch in the batter and rice with no soy sauce. I will have to wait and see how I feel in the morning.

[janeway]

How are you feeling? I think most Chinese food places have something like "healthy choices" section or whatever on the menu. Steamed veggies, plain rice, steamed shrimp, etc.

[peta]

Janeway, I feel yucky sort of a hangover feeling! All bloated and last night I felt gross. But I went straight back to autoimmune eating this morning with lots of water and broth. I hope I get back to the way I have been feeling since changing to the autoimmune protocol really soon.