Chinese curry (restaurant) SYNS?

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JaneyM

Full Member

• 13 December 2010

• #1

Hello
I am going out for a chinese on Saturday night and am determined to stick to EE plan! I am thinking of having:

Hot and Sour soup - 5.5 syns
Boiled rice - free (it also says egg fried rice is free on EE - is this right??)
Chinese curry - I think this should be a good choice as it's mainly chicken, veg and a non-greasy curry sauce. Does anyone know the approx syn count?

Thanks for your help. Jane x

 

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Lonestitcher

Silver Member

• 13 December 2010

• #2

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4 Syns on Extra Easy

Original 21½ Syns

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JaneyM

Full Member

• 13 December 2010

• #3

I saw it on the online BodyOptimise site! Thought it must be wrong!!

Starter
Chinese chicken and mushroom soup 1 Syn on Original and
Extra Easy, 8½ Syns on Green
Sesame prawn toast 1½ Syns on Original and Extra Easy,
2 Syns on Green
Main
Egg fried rice Free on Green and Extra Easy,
11 Syns on Original
Sweet ’n sour chicken ½ Syn on Original and Extra Easy,
6½ Syns on Green
Peking duck 7½ Syns on Original and Extra Easy,
16 Syns on Green
Stir-fried vegetables Free on Original,
Extra Easy and Green​

Only 10½ Syns for an Extra Easy feast!​

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Stefanie

Silver Member

• 13 December 2010

• #4

The above is syns for re-creating a Chinese meal at home, not takeaway or sit-in xx

Edit to say, personally the curry would be last on my list, the amount of oil used in curry is huge! I would pick a chow mein or something with a light soy sauce type with boiled rice xx

 

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JaneyM

Full Member

• 14 December 2010

• #5

Hi Stefanie, it was in the section 'Eating Out - Chinese' so all very confusing! I didn't realise there was a lot of oil used to make the curry. I will keep looking through until I find something acceptable - I think Beef in mushrooms looks like a good choice. I like the spicy ones like Beef or chicken Schezwan (sp?) so will look in to that. I will go through the other threads on the site and have a good look on the syns calculator. Thanks for your help xx

 

peachy7

Silver Member

• 14 December 2010

• #6

Beef in Black bean sauce is one of your best bets at 5.5, or beef in mushrooms 4.5 - personally think thats a little boring though with boiled rice. Chow meins are about 6.5-8.5 sorry this is off the top of my head!!

 

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JaneyM

Full Member

• 14 December 2010

• #7

Thanks Peachy, I think I'll go for the beef in black bean sauce and take some tabasco!! x

 

peachy7

Silver Member

• 5 January 2011

• #8

I know this was 3 weeks ago but... I always ask for extra chillies in my beef and black bean sauce...

 

Pearl77

Full Member

• 6 January 2011

• #9

I normally have chicken or beef in black bean sauce, and boiled rice, and it's lovely, only 5.5 syns for a 340g portion blackbean, mmmm nice!

 

iwillbeaskinnykatie

Full Member

• 19 October 2011

• #10

that sounds yumm