All about the Fast Food *

Hey bloggers, and welcome to my blog :)

I'd like to say in advance thank you for following me and looking up at my blogs it means a lot. So my blog is all bout the fast food, what's bad and what's better for your health, since nobody really pays attention to the food they eat, what's in it and if it's even good for you, reading my blogs it's gonna help you decide whether or not you really wanna eat what you usually do. It'll help you decide for the near future what you think is better for you. So stay tuned and see what new post will be next, maybe youre favorite fast food place, maybe your friends favorite your brother or sister or parents favorite, anyone's it's all going to be here. If you're curious a certain sort of fast food restaurant or maybe there's a mistake on one of my blogs, let me know and i will most definitely get back at you with some answers. So again, thank you and i'll be sure to check up on your blogs.

& thatainTme is out! Byeee :)

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Ming Wah Chinese Buffet

Hi bloggers, :D 
I'm excited to talk about Ming Wah because I love Chinese food with a strong passion!


Have you ever been to Ming Wah Chinese Buffet on 6711 Tecumseh Road East Windsor? If not you’re definitely missing out big time!! Most amazing place to go eat at, not only is it cheap, 15.99 for adults not bad for a buffet where you can go for seconds, thirds, forth’s +.

They give you so many choices like;
  •         Noodles                                         
  •      Rice
  •      Chicken balls
  •      Chicken wings
  •       Cooked shrimp
  •      Breaded shrimp
  •      Frog legs
  •      Fries
  •      Mushroom
  •      Cooked vegetables
  •      Steamed scallops
  •      Stir fried beef
  •      Sweet and sour pork
  •      Mushroom fried noodles
  •      Crab legs
               + And much more in that category

They also give you choices like;
  •          Different flavored ice cream
  •       Cream puffs
  •       Brownies
  •      Lemon cake(slices)
  •      Toffee cake(slices)
  •      Coffee cake(slices)
  •      Strawberry cake(slices)

       + And more

They also give you choices like;
  •          Different kinds of cut fruits
  •       Multiple kinds of soup
  •       Italian salads
  •       Greek salads
  •       Tabouli (middle eastern salad)
 And my favorite thing they serve is sushi rolls, there is;
  •       Avocado roll                                   -> 140 calories, 5.7 grams of fat
  •       California roll                                 -> 255 calories, 7.0 grams of fat
  •       Kappa Maki (cucumber roll)       -> 136 calories, 0.0 grams of fat
  •       Spicy tuna roll                               -> 290 calories, 11.0 grams of fat
  •       Shrimp tempura roll                    -> 508 calories, 21.0 grams of fat
  •       Salmon & Avocado roll                 -> 304 calories, 8.7 grams of fat
  •       Tuna (Maguro) roll                       -> 184 calories, 2.0 grams of fat
  •       Eel (Unagi) and avocado roll       -> 372 calories, 17.0 grams of fat

And many more

This place has the most amazing food possible; it’s all so go every time I go there I get so stuffed and then when I leave I wish I would have ate more. I think I might just go there soon, it’s been since September that I haven’t been.

Something I learned from reading online is that if you go to here on your birthday with 2 or more friends, you get FREE FOOD! How awesome is that, now I’m definitely going to go there on my birthday haha.

(Full credits to Wikipedia; for some of the food that they served, most of them I knew them by hear considering its my favorite place (: ! )


Ming Wah Chinese Buffet

" Your Choice...Take Out Buffet By the Pound"

Friday, November 5, 2010

Burger King

The international fast food restaurant chain BK known as Burger King was founded in 1953 in Jacksonville, Florida as “Insta-Burger King.” The original founders and owners are Keith J. Kramer and his wife’s uncle Matthew Burns. Burger King is behind McDonald’s in international locations by over 12,200 stores. At end of the 2010 year which is around this time, Burger King came the second largest chain of hamburger fast food in competition of restaurant locations in the world behind McDonald’s who has 32,400 locations, Subway who has 32,000 locations and Yum! Brands who has 37,000 locations. 





(Full credits to Wikipedia; it helped me find the information for the founders and associates, total of locations and such...)
 

The worst thing on the menu would have to be the BK Big Fish Sandwich, even though everyone thinks it’s a healthy choice because it says ¨fish¨ it’s really not, it has the most calories and if you add extra condiments than natural it’s even more calories than the original meal. The reason that it is not healthy anymore is because when you bread it, fry it and slather it with tartar sauce, it’s like you’re plain out just eating fat.
  • The original meal has 1080 calories, 43 g of fat (7.5 saturated), and 1680 of mg sodium and 155 carbs.
  • But if you get the BK Big Fish Sandwich by itself it has fewer calories. It contains 658 calories, 33 g fat (28 saturated), and 1,299 of mg sodium. So I guess it’s a little less than the whole meal all together.

Burger king has a special for Wednesdays, which is called “Whopper Wednesday” a tasty burger that everyone has probably eaten more than once in their life. I admit I have too. Every Wednesday Burger King is PACKED and the most common order would definitely be the Whopper.

Even though it’s not good for you at all, people don’t care because it’s just plain out delicious. 1 Whopper meal gives you 1250 calories, 57g fat (14.5 saturated), 1810 mg of sodium and 154 carbs. But people rarely look at the nutrition board to see what our body is consuming. 


My opinion.. I just wouldn't eat it unless I were to work out after or at least have some sort of exercise for my body to lose the calories of it so I don't get fat :p haha, but you are what you eat!


Burger King
"Have it your way"

KFC





KFC, which is short for Kentucky Fried Chicken, was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1952 even though the idea of KFC’s fried chicken goes back to 1930. The owner of the KFC brand reports in 2009 the existence of 16,264 KFC locations around the world, distributed in 108 countries. 


There are around 9-10 KFC locations in Windsor only.


(Full credits to Wikipedia; it helped me find the information for the founders and associates, total of locations and such...)

Whaadduuupppp bloggers! I'm pretty sure I’m getting you all hungry with my blogs but you picked to read it, it clearly says "Fast Food" so I'm not the one to take the full blame over here. :)

One of my favorite things on the menu is the Chicken Twister, I find it delicious. Even though it contains 627 calories, 34 g fat (7 saturated), and 1529 mg sodium. If you really want to eat the Chicken Twister then I suggest you go for the Grilled Chicken Twister, I guess you can say it’s the same thing, the taste is a little different, but you save half the amount of calories since the Grilled Chicken Twister only contains 421 calories, 21 grams of fat, 4.1 saturated and 1,121 milligrams of sodium. So it’s half the amount of the Chicken Twister sandwich.

There are not many healthy choices on the menu so I would recommend not eating KFC too much. Even though there’s a special every Tuesday called “Toonie Tuesday” so it doesn’t help anyone’s condition if it’s cheap and its good anyone would pay. The Toonie Tuesday has 2 pieces of chicken and fries, each piece of chicken will have about 300-400 calories and the fries another 400+ calories, so in total a meal between 800-1000 calories, 20+ grams of saturated fat, there food is high in sodium and cholesterol not from the oil but the frying of the chicken (internal fat).

Every Tuesday at lunch everyone leaves the school to KFC since it’s cheap, for Toonie Tuesday, they make it seem like it’s a holiday. But you can’t blame them, the food is just that good, can’t you agree? I sure can. (:

KFC
"Kentucky Fried Chicken"


Subway

Subway is an American restaurant that sells only submarine sandwiches(subs), and salads and personal pizzas. It is owend and operated by Doctor’s Associates Inc. Subway is one of the fastest growing industry in the world approximately 33,556 restuarant in 92 contries/territories as of October 1, 2010 which recently passed a little over a month ago.

It is the largest single-brand, restaurant chain world wide and is the second biggest restaurant operator world wide after Yum! Brands with 35,000 locations.

(Full credits to Wikipedia; it helped me find the information for the founders and associates)

Subway is my favorite place to eat at, I probably eat at Subway 5 times a month considering i live a 10 minute walk away from the location on Walker road and Ottawa street. The sandwich i always get is the Chicken Teriyaki. I always get the Italian Herbs and cheese bread, toasted with everything on it, tomatoes, pickles, cucumber, lettuce, black olives, green pepper and jalapenos on half of the sandwich so it’s not too hot for me. With sub sauce mayo and mustard on it. It’s my favorite sandwich to get everytime i go there thats the one to get. They say its bout 130 calories only the Chicken in it, but adding everything else makes it go up.

But one sandwich that’s full of calories is the 12-inch MeatBall Marinara Sub. The reason not to have this, is because the fat content is high but if you do eat it you have to watch your blood pressure because this meatball-stuffed Bismarck is the winner for the sodium count at close to twice the recommended faily intakel. It containes 1.000 calories, 44g fat (20 saturated), 2.580 mg sodium which is a lot to take in for just a sub.

Subway

¨Eat Fresh¨

Boston Pizza

Boston Pizza has began in Edmonton, Alberta on August 12, 1964. Boston Pizza had 17 locations in Western, Canada by 1970. The original location was located at 5515 137 Avenue Northwest. Joe Tremblay was the first customer and is still a proud patron today. Boston Pizza has a total of 386 restaurants in North America, with 335 locations in Canada.



(Full credits to Wikipedia; it helped me find the information for the founders and associates)

Last time I’ve been to Boston's Pizza was during the summer of 2010 and we went in as a group of friends and bought the Bacon Double Cheeseburger Pizza. I'm sure we gained tons of calories that day considering only two large slices has 700 calories, 30g fat (saturated fat information is not offered by the restaurant) 1,300 mg sodium.

 It's more like a yummy Double Disaster since just two slices piled high with ground beef, bacon, onions and double cheese. But if you want to cut that calorie in half get The Tasty Californian, with zucchini, onions, sun-dried tomatoes and Parmesan, is probably the healthiest choice. Two large slices contains 360 calories, 5 grams of fat, 700 milligrams of sodium.


Boston Pizza

¨You're among friends¨

Swiss Chalet



Swiss Chalet is a chain of Canadian family restaurants originally founded in 1954 in Toronto, Ontario. There are about over 200 restaurants in Canada and the United States, as of 2008.


(Full credits to Wikipedia; it helped me find the information for the founders and associates)
I’ve been to Swiss Chalet once in my life, and it was honestly and amazing restaurant, great service, food was actually fast and it was delicious. Even though i came out of the restaurant with a big tummy, felt like i couldn’t eat for the next few days and then everything got digested within an hour. Which is the worst part because you’ve consumed so much calories that way and then after digesting everything you’re hungry again so that’s consumming even more calories.

For exemple;

The Messy Chicken Sandwich, is actually something messy to eat you’d need a knife, a fork and plenty of napkins. This sandwich wins for the most calories out of the top 10 fatest foods in my blog. It contains 1,007 calories, 41 g fat (10 saturated), 1,320 mg sodium.

For something even better on the menu to eat choose ;
The Chicken on a Kraiser. It has 434 calories, 9 grams of fat, 3 saturated, 410 milligrams of sodium.

Wendy's

Wendy’s old fashioned hamburgers is an international fast food chain restaurant founded by Dave Thomas on November 15, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The company decided to move it’s headquartes to Dublin, Ohio, on January 29, 2006.

(Full credits to Wikipedia; it helped me find the information for the founders and associates)

It may seem as it could be just a plain burger from anywhere, but actually it contains about half of the calories you need consummed in your body. The Big Bacon Classic is a quarter-pound patty of beef on a kraiser topped with cheese and bacon. Bacon, cheese, even the light mayo, on this burger it adds to the calorie and fat. It containes 580 calories, 29 g fat (12 saturated) 1,330 mg sodium.

For something better on the menu pick The Classic Single with everything, it’s almost the same as The Big Bacon Classic without the bacon and cheese. Drops down 170 calories and 10 grams of fat too 410 calories, 19 grams of fat, 7 saturated, 880 milligrams of sodium. Or go the Ultimate Chicken Grill sandwich and subtract another 60 calories and 12 grams of fat too 350 calories, 7 grams of fat, 1.5 saturated 1.030 milligrams of sodium.

If you’re watching your fat and calories, try these suggested meals, each 550 calories:

  • Ultimate Chicken Grill (hold the sauce) with a Side Salad and fat-free dressing 
  • Grilled Chicken Go Wrap (hold the sauce) with a small Chili
  • Large Chili with a Side Salad and fat-free dressing
  • Plain Baked Potato and a small Chili

Wendy’s has an Everyday Value meal for 99¢
¨Real Choices, Real Value, Everyday at Wendy’s¨