All my asian girlfriends gained weight, too. I had a korean ex who would shit talk American food, then we'd go out for dinner and she'd stuff her face. And all these asian girls told me that it everyone knew when you came to America, you gain weight, and then when you go home, everyone says how fat you got.
My current GF is Japanese. Yes, everyone praises Japanese food - though normal Japanese people don't actually eat sushi much. Here in America, you can get every kind of Japanese food plus every other kind of food. My GF started out like most asians not really liking dessert. Well, she does now. Know why? because asian "dessert" is shit-tier while American dessert is god.
America pretty much has everything, especially where I live being in a big city on the west coast. (LA) The only problem is things being overpriced. It takes effort to find places that have good quality but without extortionate prices.
Also:
No, food is not "loaded with chemicals", except maybe in China
Restaurants do not use "canola oil" whatever that's supposed to mean (as if it fucking matters what form your added fat comes in), but they use shitloads of fat & salt in their cooking because it makes things taste better and that's all customers care about
I never go to fast food. Except In-N-Out which doesn't count. You've got to be pretty trashy if you go to fast food on purpose when you have any other option.
Some pedantic and technically correct annotations:
food is not "loaded with chemicals"
Water is a chemical. Sugar is a chemical. Salt is a chemical. Protein is a chemical.
Food is a heterogeneous chemical mixture.
"canola oil" whatever that's supposed to mean
Canola oil is a Canadian "invention"... The invention part being renaming "rapeseed" to "canola" because people got scared of "rape-seed" oil. I guess they thought it would grow up into rape oil? It's just a specific type of flower/fruit seed oil, like grapeseed oil or sunflower oil.
especially where I live being in a big city on the west coast. (LA)
You have my condolences. You should consider moving.
In general, Asian cuisine has strong-tasting meals, but very mild desserts. Pepper-oil-soaked spicy noodles... with three-milk-pudding for dessert, to calm the taste buds from the meal. That kind of philosophy.
It's beyond just some culinary stereotypes, though. Cola in Asia has less sweetener (be it sugar or corn syrup equivalent) than in North America or Europe, and generally speaking, the people there have a much lower tolerance for sugar, and find western things to range from "very" to "too" sweet.
Europe is generally, stereotypically speaking, the opposite. Boiled beef and mashed potatoes... With dessert of sticky toffee pudding, covered in caramel and iced cream.
America, land of the cultural melting pot, went "why not both?". American culinary norms can be summarized as "more". Not just more serving size, but more flavor. The spiciest foods in the world? American-made. The sweetest? American. Biggest servings? You betcha. American food is a brawl, a contest to punch you in the face with the most "more". It's not just some ribs, it has three sauces, each made from different smoked woods, spiced with different peppers, and sweetened with different sugars! ...And the ribs were smoked in a fourth wood. And dessert is a 7-tier fudge cake, deep-fried and covered in strawberry liquers.
dessert is not popular in most asian countries except maybe Thailand. It has started to get more popular in Japan, but not consistently. Plenty of asian people never grew up eating dessert. Or what they have for "dessert" (China) is terrible.
All my asian girlfriends gained weight, too. I had a korean ex who would shit talk American food, then we'd go out for dinner and she'd stuff her face. And all these asian girls told me that it everyone knew when you came to America, you gain weight, and then when you go home, everyone says how fat you got.
My current GF is Japanese. Yes, everyone praises Japanese food - though normal Japanese people don't actually eat sushi much. Here in America, you can get every kind of Japanese food plus every other kind of food. My GF started out like most asians not really liking dessert. Well, she does now. Know why? because asian "dessert" is shit-tier while American dessert is god.
America pretty much has everything, especially where I live being in a big city on the west coast. (LA) The only problem is things being overpriced. It takes effort to find places that have good quality but without extortionate prices.
Also:
No, food is not "loaded with chemicals", except maybe in China
Restaurants do not use "canola oil" whatever that's supposed to mean (as if it fucking matters what form your added fat comes in), but they use shitloads of fat & salt in their cooking because it makes things taste better and that's all customers care about
I never go to fast food. Except In-N-Out which doesn't count. You've got to be pretty trashy if you go to fast food on purpose when you have any other option.
So many tumblers just fell into place lol
Yeah. It makes more sense now.
Some pedantic and technically correct annotations:
Water is a chemical. Sugar is a chemical. Salt is a chemical. Protein is a chemical.
Food is a heterogeneous chemical mixture.
Canola oil is a Canadian "invention"... The invention part being renaming "rapeseed" to "canola" because people got scared of "rape-seed" oil. I guess they thought it would grow up into rape oil? It's just a specific type of flower/fruit seed oil, like grapeseed oil or sunflower oil.
You have my condolences. You should consider moving.
You know what this libtard meant by "loaded with chemicals".
Yeah, I just hate that people use terms incorrectly. Language matters.
In general, Asian cuisine has strong-tasting meals, but very mild desserts. Pepper-oil-soaked spicy noodles... with three-milk-pudding for dessert, to calm the taste buds from the meal. That kind of philosophy.
It's beyond just some culinary stereotypes, though. Cola in Asia has less sweetener (be it sugar or corn syrup equivalent) than in North America or Europe, and generally speaking, the people there have a much lower tolerance for sugar, and find western things to range from "very" to "too" sweet.
Europe is generally, stereotypically speaking, the opposite. Boiled beef and mashed potatoes... With dessert of sticky toffee pudding, covered in caramel and iced cream.
America, land of the cultural melting pot, went "why not both?". American culinary norms can be summarized as "more". Not just more serving size, but more flavor. The spiciest foods in the world? American-made. The sweetest? American. Biggest servings? You betcha. American food is a brawl, a contest to punch you in the face with the most "more". It's not just some ribs, it has three sauces, each made from different smoked woods, spiced with different peppers, and sweetened with different sugars! ...And the ribs were smoked in a fourth wood. And dessert is a 7-tier fudge cake, deep-fried and covered in strawberry liquers.
dessert is not popular in most asian countries except maybe Thailand. It has started to get more popular in Japan, but not consistently. Plenty of asian people never grew up eating dessert. Or what they have for "dessert" (China) is terrible.
With that opinion, be extremely careful going to Europe, despite everything else their deserts a evil in how good they are
Especially English sweets, I've seen Americans go like it's crack with how much of a sugar rush they get from them
Thing is you can get all that in the US. I have an extremely popular french pastry place near me, then also other types as well.