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[Axl Rose]

First up, folks, is Tasters' Choice coffee - that crappy instant coffee stuff. i drink it at work and when ever i knock back a coupla cups, i feel fat, loosening my belt. what the hell?

how calorific is K-food in general - the rice? the sauces? the dwen-jang soups? the crappy coffee? i'm too cheap to buy proper coffee and too lazy to make it even if i did buy it.

[SuperHero]

instant coffee is chock full of sugar and calories.

other stuff, I'd like to know as well.

[Son Deureo!]

I've had some like with finding nutritional information on Korean food at www.recipezaar.com. Just type the best romanization you can into their search feature and there's a good chance you'll find a recipe and nutritional information for it for a lot of foods, including a lot of Korean foods. And it's in ENglish.

Obviously, this is going to vary depending on how it's made, so it's only really a rough guide.

A few examples:

[dreamscape]

Korean food in general isn't too bad. If you find yourself bloating up a bit, cut down on some of the rice portions. I swap my rice for salad with a lot of meals and it seems to really help.

...the beer doesn't help things either, but that's a bit more tricky to cut out

Also, black coffee is the way to go calorie wise. Pick up a french press (bodum) and brew your own, you can experiment with different regions and roasts and find something you like. If you're not used to black coffee it can be a bit of an acquired taste, but once you get used to it you'll discover a lot of subtle flavours in coffee that are usually drowned out by the sugar and milk.

[Hater Depot]

One cup of rice is about 200 calories. I remember checking out the nutrition poster in my school's cafeteria last year. All I remember is that one roll of kimbap has some shockingly high number of calories.

[OiGirl]

I have seen a pretty good carb list for Korean foods, a friend got it from her doctor when she was diagnised with gestational diabetes. Ask your doctor or your trainer at the gym.

[Confused Canadian]

Someone else posted this link a while back. It's all in Korean, but it gives very good caloric info on typical Korean food.

http://www.47kg.co.kr/caldic/calorybook_part_food.asp

[flotsam]

I am correct in translating, 1대접시, as "1 dish"? (My dictionary's at home--I hate it when I don't know easy stuff.)

That's a bloody useful site as the English ones I've seen list the nutrition details in units that aren't very practical for trying to figure out how much is on your plate down the local 식당.

[Son Deureo!]

[Hater Depot]

접시 is plate, as I recall. So is a 대접시.. erm.. a big plate?

[flotsam]

[JongnoGuru]

Nothing wrong with counting calories, I guess... Or maybe there is. Maybe when people start looking at every food as a little monster on a plate, getting this wound up about how much "bad" it's going to do them, then they're already hopelessly lost in the numbers, in the dieter's mindset, in the endless cycle of trying to lose weight, then gain it back, then fretting, then trying to lose it again, and then...

J(apanese)-gals and F(rench)-gals and K(orean)-gals aren't calorie-counters, and they aren't exactly the flabbiest people on the planet.

[Confused Canadian]

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[Yo!Chingo]