Chineese Foods

[Country923]

Hi my name is Nansea and I was wondering if we can eat chineese food and how do I tell which is bad for me? I love it!

[aklap]

Hi Nansea,

Most stay away from Chinese restaurants. The soy sauce they use has wheat in it - as most soy sauces do. Traditionally asian restaurants do not clean their woks - so there is huge contamination risks.

PF Chang's is as Asian chain restaurant that does provide GF menu selections - prepared in GF woks.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

[Torrey]

Yeah, I usually avoid Chinese restaurants, too.
If you make Chinese food at home, though, there are a few brands of rice noodles and San-J makes a GF soy sauce that tastes pretty close to the real thing, and it's not nearly as salty, which is great!
But, I have found a new favorite ethnic food--THAI!
It's fantastic--lots of rice noodles, no soy sauce, and LOTS of flavor!!
I've become a huge fan of Thai food and it's cool because my non-GF boyfriend also likes it!
It's so nice to find places where we can both eat something off the menu without just ordering plain, steamed veggies and meat.
Ok, I'm rambling, but hey, it's Friday!!!
Have a great day, everyone, and keep smiling!
~Torrey
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~Torrey

August 24, 1975
GF BD July 12, 2004

[skbird]

My favorite is Sushi! I bring my own soy sauce (I use Braggs liquid aminos) and get rolls and sashimi. I don't get anything else though as most has soy sauce in it. But I love sushi so it's perfect.

Mmmmmm, getting hungry....
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Stephanie

[aklap]

[Country923]

Hi this is Nansea again, and I am so thankful for clarifing the info about chineese foods for me. At least now I can be in control of my choices when I do order in that type of resturant. Again, I thank you.

[Fawn]

My family has eaten at 5 PFChangs, with fairly good results. They are more careful about helping you avoid gluten-containing sauce, though, than about avoiding the won ton strips in the oriental chicken salad. Three times, the salad has been first served with strips on top (always hold onto that salad until they bring you a salad without strips, so you know that they didn't just pluck them off), and another time a salad that had no visible strips had several pieces in the bottom of the bowl.
My gf daughter has sushi often. She said that some sushi bars/restaurants add barley to their green tea, others add brown rice. So be sure to check before you order tea.

[skbird]

Wow, interesting to know about barley being added to the tea. I don't usually get tea as I can't have caffeine that late in the day but will keep that in mind.
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Stephanie

[GATerhaar]

There are g-f soy sauces -- Tamari has one and Chung King. My celiac wife uses these and orders the her meal w/o an other sauces and adds her own. Have been successful so far.

[tj]

San J wheat free tamari is what I use, or the braggs liquid amino's both are great. I did not know about thai restaraunts offering GF. Is the food spicy hot? I can't eat alot of spicy hot things. CD gives me the reflux stuff going on. ...so I avoid too spicy. What would be a good dish to start of with in a thai restaraunt? Maybe I'll give it a try. Thanks TJ

[Torrey]

Yes, a lot of Thai food is based on rice and rice noodles, which makes it great for us!
Granted, there are some spicy items on those menus, but they also use a lot of lime, basil, curry, coconut milk, and peanuts. Most places I go have put little symbols next to the *hot & spicy* items, so that's always a plus.
This week, I also tried Vietnamese food, which is also quite yummy and which uses a lot of rice-based items.
If you'd like to try some quick at-home meals, Thai Kitchen makes a pretty good line of GF soups and noodle cart dishes, such as Pad Thai.
I hope this is of some help to you, TJ!
Good luck and be well!
Keep smiling!
~Torrey
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~Torrey

August 24, 1975
GF BD July 12, 2004

[maria1223]

I can eat chinese the only thing I can eat is sesame chicken with snow peas. it does not bother me at all. I have a place called the great wall. I don't eat it all the time maybe 2 x's a month. it never gave me any side affects. I better knock on wood when I say this I was eating it before I was Dx with CD and still eat it with no problem

[kemp]

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[lm]

i've been eating the san-j wheat-free soy sauce as well.. and i wanted to make sure that wheat-free definitely means "gluten-free". i'm guessing by everyone's comments that it does... and i don't feel like it's been affecting me... but i figure i'd ask anyway. anyone know for sure??????

i also love thai.... sometimes i get worried about the sauces though. even though they say there's no soy sauce in things like the pad thai-- how do you know there isn't wheat starch or some other thickener..... i prob sound overly cautious, but i am pretty sensitive to gluten so i sorta have to be unfort...