Click To Play

Nina and Eric describe how to order menu items that are steamed with sauce on the side, brown rice instead of white, and explain how you can order items that are not on the menu.

Nina and Eric bring the USDA food pyramid to life.

Dr. Eric Rimm is a brilliant and funny nutritionist from the Harvard School of Public Health. We met on the Nutrition Roundtable, a group of doctors from the HSPH, restaurateurs, cookbook authors, food businessmen, and other concerned individuals, that meets three times a year to discuss the latest research in nutrition and health. Dr. Walter Willett (Yay Walter!!) is our esteemed leader. For more information , check out the Harvard School of Public Health website.

This series is in response to the CSPI study (Center for Science in the Public Interest), a group we admire and support, where they analyzed the calories of some common dishes at a Chinese-American restaurant and reported their outrageously high caloric and fat content. We wanted to show people how EASY it is to go to a Chinese restaurant and order well.

This is the first in the series of “Pyramid on a Plate” In our next “pyramid” segment, we will go to an American restaurant to show people how to eat pleasurably according to the USDA Pyramid.

Watch the 20 minute extended version:
Dinner on a Plate #1: Healthy Chinese Food Exposed (Extended Version)

Restaurant:

CK Shanghai

Steve's Technical Notes:

This episode was filmed entirely on a Nokia N95. It was edited together with iMovie and compressed from .mp4 to 320×240 H.260 .mov using QuickTime. The food was amazing and I loved the steamed asparagus with mushrooms.

Alternate Version: YouTube