Why I Hate Chinese Food?

I have been teaching about Atherosclerosis all my life. 

The final theory is discussed in my book "Vegetarian Saga". 

Please, Do not believe the American Medical Assiciation's Food Advice dished out in December, every year.

It is worse than Anthony Fousi talking about "Gain in Function" protocol in Wuhan, China laboratories.

It has chapters on coconut oil, chocolates, meditation and beautiful mind.

Final chapter is on "Fact Based" or "Evidenced Based Medicine".

It would be out in mid January, 2025 after the inauguration of Donald Trump as the President of USA.

I am a doctor in retirement.

This advice is using myself as a subject of concern.

I used to eat Chinese Food in UK on weekends. 

I'll come to that later.

I entered UK in late 1979 and I was without a job living alone for 4 months on my own.

I did not know how to cook.

We used to get two meals free from the hospital and we eat a Full Chicken a day (half a chicken a meal). 

Two bottles of milk free on hospital account. 

It was only 20 pence a pint. 

I love Manchester milk.

Mind you, unlike today cost of living in UK was damn cheap, then and 95% of my salary was saved. 

I used to buy all the fancy stuff including cameras and Japanese Walky Talkies. 

I had a digital radio to wake me up at 7AM to Joe Vogan the Irish comedian.

The Joe Rogan, type.

For two hours I read something including academic stuff. I collected over 2000 to 3000 books on many topics other than medicine.

I had few books on psychology which I did like very much.

Psychology was in infancy then and probably even now.

I delved into Dhamma and Abhidhamma well past 50.

Thankfully, cheap computers were not in existence. 

There were no cellphones.

The Bleeper weighed half a brick and I used to drop that to the bin basket on weekends.

I lost my Seiko wristwatch with keys of the alphabet on top, within 10 days. 

It was left in my on call room.

Probably the cleaner took it. Which one I could not figure out.

I reported that I lost it in the common TV Lounge.

In a way, protected any litigation but the general manager knew it and it was his responsibility to protect our belongings.when on call.

Quickly adapted Bank Cards for transactions and a receipt for every transaction.

It was fully insured and I bought a cheaper Seiko. 

My current digital wristwatch is a cheap one which I bought before leaving Ceylon. If I lose it I do not care.

Currently, I do not use my cellphone for calls and use it only for searching the Internet.

My cheap Intel NUC computer with Debian installed doing all my academic work.

No Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac to entice me.

In early 1980s, Medical Secretaries we're learning Word Processing in DOS format. 

I decided to buy an Electric  Typewriter to do my own typing of letters and resumes. 

That typewriter is still in working order, of Olympia make.

I must remind the time of Sirimavo and NM. People were practically starving but we had a reasonable good meal in our quarters but very badly cooked.

Coming to UK with plenty of food, within a year I got bloated up.

I was like a fully fed pig.

I was 55kg when I entered UK and when I left it could have been 62 to 64kg.

It could have been even more. 

I did not weigh myself, in UK.

I weighed myself (with clothes) just before I left New Zealand 1994 and then, the peak weight was 64kg. 

I became health conscious in the 1990s and now propergate Single Good Meal a day and NO RICE at all (except occasional indulgence) for over 15 years.

I decided to change to healthy Fish and Chips which was the staple and cheap food in UK.

Cod and haddock were the high end fish but plaice and pollock were the commener variety, in fish and chips shops. 

I did not bother about the fish type.

Salmon was not popular except in cans. That was my only cooking of fish experience.

Put it to the pan and fry. 

Adding butter, salt and fish (salmon) in a mashed mix was the sandwich mix.

But I missed katta,  tuna and dried fish of Ceylon. 

Cooking fish in Ceylonese way is not an easy job. 

So getting addicted to chicken was natural. 

I do not eat chicken at all now.

Mind you, a large English portion of fish and chips was enough for me for the entire day, living alone in UK without a job.

A light English Breakfast was enough to prevent hypoglycemia in the winter months. 

Plenty of sweets in my pocket and that changed to chocolates and liqueured chocolate during Christmas time.

Off days, I used to go for a Chinese Fish and chips. 

I did not realize they add some additives to either chips or fish. I could not be sure since both are fried in the same meat oil.

Fish oil is good for your health!

The oil they use for cooking is the one with the contentious issue. 

Now, I know they use meat oil or suet or tallow. 

The boiling point of meat oil is about 40 degrees which is ideal for frying.

So this Chinese deep frying kills the value of fish oil.

One must remember our taste buds needs oil to sensitize the nerve ending and if one adds Ajinamoto to that one gets addicted to Chinese food.

That is why I do not eat Chinese food and boycott Chinese restaurants.

They use tallow liberally.

By the way, Chinese eat any meat under the sun.

I have almost become a vegetarian.

My book  "Vegetarian Saga" is almost finished and a little footnote about Chinese deep frying would be added to that book.