Back to childhood diet--abit

[shootingstar]

Bao is humbao? THAT would be my everlasting vice if I found somewhere that prepared it nicely.

I often look at diet and culture and try to figure out why some people are larger than others. I think (though it's my unofficial way of thinking) that it's the convenience of pre-prepared and restaurant food?

Always try the long-term independent Chinese bakeries / tea shops for better bao. Best ones have hand minced pork or chicken with finely chopped shitake mushrooms, onion, even just a bit of salted turnip (which is like a preserved condiment), etc. Nice with some chopped lower fat Chinese sausage. yes, a vice...now we're falling off the rails from healthy diets.

The effect of the worst parts of Western diet is obvious when you go to Hawaii and look at big size of some people there and the food now. It amazed me that SPAM, that tinned meat is considered part of an entree choice in a fast food restaurant.

It was rare 30 years ago to see North American Asian women anywhere, with serious breast cleavage PLUS heavy upper arms. Now to me, it's more common...particularily on younger women, not necessarily a good thing.

And why would I notice?....Asians were more visible back then, there were less of them in the masses in North America.

I did grow up with parents who became what I thought at that time, a little paranoid of fat and sugar. Childhood memories of helping Mom scraping out the congealed fat from refrigerated soup broths. (Would children be helping out this way in kitchen now? Probably not.) She spent lots of time cutting off skinfat from meats before preparing them for the freezer...for 8 people. It was probably because my father was restaurant cook, he just saw ..it all..behind the scenes.