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[traxxe]

Large dinner meal, I know. Just curious since I've been eating it pretty much every night



The goods:
Kimchi Chigae (not sure how many grams, anyone know how many grams these black bowls hold)
1 fried egg.
Yellow raddish? What is this called anyone? I assumed its low low calorie.
Rice... is that two cups worth you think?
Kimchi - Low calorie
I'm not sure what the last stuff is but it is pretty tasty, reminds me of pig skin or something

[traxxe]

I'm guessing 1000 calories. Maybe 1200. But I have no clue.

[faster]

I think the last stuff is odaeng (fish bologna heh)

[rocklee]

That looks like soon dobu jiggae (tofu hot soup).

If that was 1000 calories then I'm not eating that anymore.

[traxxe]

Pork is there but buried. It's kimchi chigae. I'm saying a guess of 1000 calories for everything. 2 cups of rice alone is 400 calories I think.

The egg, what 100? I'm asking for guesses. I'm not sure.

[fizban]

The only thing that would be of concern is the white rice. 1 cup of white rice (cup being a measuring cup and not some big ass random cup) is roughly 200 calories and pretty much all simple carbs.

Simple carbs have their time and place but unless you've just completed some kind of strenous activity there's a good chance it's going straight to your ass so to speak.

The rest is primarily vegetable calories and salt. Some fat from the pork but otherwise, all pretty healthy calorie sources and while difficult to pinpoint but my 2cents is under 1,000 and over 500

[jlb]

My guess:

Rice=400 ish
Chigae=500ish
Egg=100ish
Sidedishes=100-300?

So yeah, over 1000 for sure I'd say. If you're worried, eat only half the rice and no egg yolk, only the white.

[tigerbluekitty]

I would guess around 630 calories, not including the kimchi chigae.

Rice - 400
Yellow takuan - 20
Fried egg - 110
Fried bean curd - 90
Kimchi - 10

[VanIslander]

eat Korean dishes but skip the side bowl of rice

and you'll lose weight, no problem

[chevro1et]

[pharflung]

They didn't have kimchi, but they did have Japanese pickled cabbage, at 15 calories for 50 grams:

http://grande.nal.usda.gov/NDL/index.html

1 fried egg = 90 calories

2 cups glutinous rice = 338 calories.

The rest, your on your own. Try it.

They sure are generous with the rice. I agree that if you are trying to lose weight the rice is a good thing to cut. If you are running a marathon tomorrow, that's another thing. And if you are the guest of someone, that's another thing, too. Not eating your rice can be viewed as an insult, a remnant of the era when people were starving and rice was one of the highest luxuries, after Spam. (Senior Koreophytes, please correct me if I'm wrong.) I have been instructed under such circumstances to not leave s single grain in the bowl.

Fat has the highest number of calories by weight of any food. It took me awhile to find the cooked pork fat on the database, but 100 grams = 629 calories. A lot of those restaurant signs show pictures of fatty raw pork followed by 200 grams, or whatever. And often about 2/3rds of the pork is fat. We need some fat in our diet, but this is going way too far, and it is not the healthy type of fat.

The problem with rice is not so much the calories as that it is more likely to trigger the fat storage mechanism in our metabolism than the complex carbs or fat.

The eggs here are relatively large, so the other posters' guesses might be right. Overall, some savvy calorie counters here. I wonder if the rice might be more like 1.5 cups?

Perhaps this helps a bit.

Say, what was the price? And was it good?

[The Perfect Cup of Coffee]

Here's a website if you can read Korean:

http://search.daum.net/cgi-bin/nsp/search.cgi?nil_profile=g&nil_Search=btn&sw=tot&q=%C4%AE%B7%CE%B8%AE&search=%B0%CB%BB%F6

I use that site as it has most Korean foods and the calorie count for each. From the site it looks like its a pretty hefty calorie count. Easily 650+. Damn hard here to get away with a meal that doesn't have a side of rice.

[traxxe]

Ny friend yesterday guessed around a cup and a half of rice, yes. Maybe not two.

It is amazingly good, yes

My favorite meal. I'm going to start eating half the rice and see how it goes.

I eat this for dinner almost every night and just a bowl of kimchi chigae (with no rice) for lunch at school everyday with no sides. Sometime Denjon chigae or army soup. Again, no sides.

I eat a bananna for breakfast every morning.

[VanIslander]

[Flash Ipanema]

So why now do people keep going on about how healthy korean food is? Tons of white rice and huge portions, the smallest food portions I can easily find are kimbap and mandu. I don't eat the fried street food.