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“BIG fish and big meat” is usually how Chinese people describe a hearty feast, but it isn’t as popular as it used to be. Rather, it’s seen as too high in calories, too unhealthy and somewhat old-fashioned.
Healthy light meals that are low in calories, with less sugar or salt and rich in fiber and nutritional values are on the rise, but Chinese cuisine traditionally doesn’t feature many dishes that fall in the “healthy” category.
Many Chinese classics are sauted or fried, but some restaurants in Hangzhou offer a wide range of healthy meals, including salads. Shanghai Daily has checked out three of them.
Borox provides over 20 sorts of salads. Pan Wei, the founder of the brand, started with one restaurant and opened another two within one year.
The brand owns a farm in south Yunnan Province where it flies in all vegetables, bringing ingredients from farm to table in less than 48 hours. The farm not only supports Pan’s five restaurants but also supplies ingredients to local hotels and other restaurants.
Borox’s menu notes that patrons “don’t need to worry that salads aren’t filling” because the restaurant also has burritos, shortbread and sandwiches. A salad goes for 24 yuan to 34 yuan, and a set including a salad, a glass of juice and a burrito is 50 yuan.
Focusing on “healthy foods,” the salad eatery boasts a light decor, and two walls are doodled with vegetable cartoon figures.
Address: In Queen’s Park, 277 Wulin Rd
Tel: (0571) 8796-7196
Address: 1/F, Handnice Building, 5 Huanglong Rd
Tel: (0571) 8815-7372
Address: 40 Zhongshan Rd N.
Tel: (0571) 8662-8369
The cofounder of Eshine Eats is designer Sun Wei who used wood and cement for the restaurant’s interior decoration, making the restaurant look simple and spacious.
Customers can order their own dishes at a computer that sends the order straight to the kitchen staff.
Salads, sandwiches, spaghetti, soups and healthy drinks are on the menu.
High-quality ingredients are especially important in these light dishes as many of them are eaten raw. Quinoa is imported from Peru, and only virgin olive oil is used in the kitchen.
The chicken meat in the Cobb Salad is roasted at 270 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes before being cooked for another 11 hours at 60 degrees. The nuts in the pistachio rotini are cracked by hand.
The restaurant’s second floor functions as a shop for affordable artworks and knickknacks.
Address: 1/F, Yi Xiang Office Building, 266 Moganshan Rd
Tel: (0571) 2825-3285
Address: D-106, EAC, 18 Jiaogong Rd
Tel: (0571) 2800-2377
Lithe Go Go’s menu features mostly salads and soup. Shao Yinqiu, the owner of the restaurant as well as of a local model agency, said that Lithe Go Go cared about creating tasty and low-calorie dishes.
Fresh ingredients and tasty sauces are essential.
Half salads feature either meat, shrimp, salmon, beef or poultry plus vegetables, and several also contain pasta. There are also several vegan salads.
Its signature avocado salad consists of avocado, bacon and egg for protein, kale, radish, okra, as well as quinoa, black rice, small red beans, corn and coix seed for carbohydrates.
Shao recommends salads and yogurts with quinoa because the seed is a rich source of protein, dietary fiber, several vitamins and dietary minerals.
Pasta dishes with tagliatelle or risottos are also offered. The average price per dish is about 50 yuan.
Address: B/F, Xihu Intime Department Store, 98 Yan’an Rd
Tel: (0571) 8700-2309
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