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" Many dishes in American-Chinese restaurants have more calories, fat, or sodium than one person should consume in a day. Take Sweet and Sour Pork, for instance. This popular dish packs a whopping 1,300 calories! Chunks of meat are usually thickly breaded before deep-frying in a vat of oil. The sauce includes several sugary, syrupy ingredients like ketchup and pineapple juice. And portion sizes are always too large. Last year, the Center for Science in the Public Interest analyzed a few dozen popular dishes from a typical Chinese restaurant menu. The top offenders, at 1,500 calories each, were Orange Crispy Beef and Combination Fried Rice. For clues to their calories, look to the names: Crispy Orange Beef is made crispy by breaded and deep-fried meat. And the villain of Combination Fried Rice is that it&amp;#039;s fried and it&amp;#039;s a combination. That means more than one kind of meat on top of the oil-laden rice, with veggies barely making an appearance. Combination Chow Mein drops to 1,200 calories, and Combination Lo Mein will save you another 200. But it&amp;#039;s still a lot of calories for one meal. Don&amp;#039;t we know by now that all fried food is the evil stepsister who doesn&amp;#039;t want you to look good at the ball? Chicken dishes don&amp;#039;t automatically mean lower calories, either. Chicken Chow Foon, made with wide rice noodles, weighs in at 1,200; General Tso&amp;#039;s Chicken, usually made with fattier chicken thigh meat, comes in at 1,300. Lemon Chicken gets its 1,400 calories from the usual suspect \u2014 battered and deep-fried meat, while Kung Pao Chicken, also at 1,400 calories, may be stir-fried but contains lots of high fat because it contains peanuts. Think a veggie dish is a better option? Barely. Try 1,000 calories in a dinner-sized serving of Eggplant in Garlic Sauce. The problem here isn&amp;#039;t so much the ingredients \u2014 it&amp;#039;s mostly vegetables and flavoring agents like vinegar and chili sauce, but the method \u2014 frying. The spongy eggplant is the perfect medium to soak up extra oil, and extra calories.  So before you pick up those chopsticks, you may want to ask yourself this: Are you taking away more than you think from your Chinese take-out? As a general rule, just don&amp;#039;t order the deep-fried stuff and you&amp;#039;ll be fine. Here are some Asian-style recipe alternatives that won&amp;#039;t cause your scale to go out on strike:  Asian Sesame Noodles  Crispy Noodle Pancake with Barbecued Pork  Sesame Shrimp and Asparagus Stir-Fry  Spring Ramen Chicken Soup  Liz Tarpy&amp;#039;s culinary life has brought her from growing organic sprouts to casting characters for a popular Food Network program. In between, she&amp;#039;s cooked, eaten, read, written and traveled - a lot - using all experiences to inform her work. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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