Conventional restaurants in the West tend to abuse food with excessive salt, cream, oil, and/or sugar. The more health conscious nouveau (as opposed to health-w

Conventional restaurants in the West tend to abuse food with excessive salt, cream, oil, and/or sugar. The more health conscious nouveau (as opposed to health-washed pseudo-healthy dining) have somewhat reversed this trend with more raw and simpler ingredients. To be fair, mainland PRC (non-Cantonese) traditional restaurant food is bland by overall world-average standards. Cantonese food tends to be arguably a notch or 2 richer like Vietnamese food, but not as much as Westernized Thai, Indian, or Korean food which tend to be very strong. General advice is: ask for the toppings or dressing on the side rather than smothered with 1k kcal of ranch dressing. No wonder Westerners have weight problems.