That's why it's preferable not to eat food that contains white flour. Brown pasta or brown noodles are better choices and unlike noodles or pasta or bread that use white flour, there are considerably less risks of catching diabetes.

Magnifico, someone else accused me of trolling? So what? This thread is about food. Please stop hijacking it with personal attacks. And if you have the time to "research" my posts, then perhaps you might find something better to do?

mmkungmingteacher, I have really bad news for you. Even if you're not trolling, your whole thesis is rubbish.

why? because white flour ranks among the unhealthiest foods on the planet. regardless of the fact that the local noodle guy is flipping the noodles up in the air and making it by hand, white flour is essentially a junk/processed food, no different than peanut butter. in fact, white flour, regardless how "freshly prepared" it is, is not any healthier than a whopper.

this is regardless of gutter oil or any other factors.

for months and months and months you've been telling people what to eat.

but it turns out that you haven't got a clue what you're talking about.

go look it up on any reputable nutrition web site (like mercola.com).

the local fresh noodles that you keep trying to shove down everybody's throat are as bad as any other foods you're attacking.

Trolling issues aside... It is a bit disingenuous to say that by definition noodles = healthy, or that prepared fresh = no use of preservatives or chemicals. @mmkunming teacher—if you do know mixian shops who make EVERYTHING from start to finish from scratch, please do start listing them on GoKunming. Frankly that would make a ton of people happy, as the biggest issue many people have with Chinese food is not that it is Chinese (which can be delicious and is a great set of culinary traditions) but that frequently many Chinese restaurants (not all) cut corners by using a variety of chemically-enhanced and preservative added ingredients—just the same as many western products do.

You said you wanted evidence, okay fair enough. A bulk of Chinese imports of foodstuffs come from abroad due to quality control standards, so much so many Chinese consumers will opt to pay 10X more for products like baby formula that are from Aus/NZ/USA than their cheaper Chinese counterparts. Similarly, mainland China does not enjoy a strong export of native foodstuffs because the quality cannot be guaranteed or because there are so many knock-offs. For example, in trying to use DNA barcoding to test what kind of "protein" was actually in Chinese Yak meat packaged for sale/export (as Chinese is a key producer of it) over half of the meat designated as yak was actually something else. Chinese alcohol and even soy sauce face similar problems, where producers can cut the actual ingredients with other chemicals that are cheaper in order to increase the profit margin.

Anyways, as you said, get the thread back on track. The original thread was on more imported products being available in Carrefour. The merits of Chinese foodstuffs was a derailment, so fine. Glad to see people can buy something that makes them feel more at home. In the US, I'd be equally glad to hear another Asian grocery store was opening to allow immigrants or those working far from home to get something that makes them feel better.

i don't think mm is crazy laowai. cl was an out and out troll. mm is just troll bait. acting like a parent who wants to educate us all will only get a bad reaction form throse of us who dont want to be pareneted. he is alos guilty of thread hijacking on this and other thtreads which is becoming boring which is another reason people are reacting againt him.

@Dazzer:
"The less people know about how sausages are made and laws and better sleep at night."

@Magnifico:
"It's not what goes into the mouth that defiles the man, is what comes out of his mouth that makes him unclean"

omg anoyther preacher parent, just waht gok needs.

Dazzer I see that averagely your posts have no contents. You're good example of troll. I guess you lost a lot of time on this website, and you have a lot of time to spend, too. Congrats.

thank you bloo. nice to be recognized. we are like two peas in a pod. perhaps we should make babies.

@BillDan: much of what you say is true, but it is not true that most Chinese food is dirty and greasy and loaded with gutter oil, nor is it true that Chinese do not prefer fresh food.