100 lb. Club - Rice Delima--Need Help Figuring This Out

Ok.....I have been getting the same dish from a local Chineese Restaurant for lunch for some time now.

Steamed Chineese Vegetables with Steamed Shrimp & Steamed White Rice.

***The menu says it is the pint size portion but I am unsure about the rice. Are they talking about the veggies or the rice when they say it is a pint size portion?

The rice comes in a very small container (smaller than the one the vegies and shrimp comes in) and I dont know if the rice container is a pint and the vegetables are a quart or if the veggies is a pint and the rice is a cup or something. Help Me!

I dont know how many calories would be in the rice because I dont know how much the container holds.......see how confusing?:(

The rice comes in the smallest Chineese takeout box there is.........if that helps anybody help me! How much does it hold?

The largest chinese take out box that I've seen is a quart. The smallest I've seen is a cup.

I'm going to assume you know the general sizes of the chinese boxes. Quart/Pint/Cup.

From your description it sounds like the Veggies & shrimp come in the Pint box. And the rice comes in the cup box. (I doubt anything would be coming in a quart sized box if they call it pint sized.) Another way to tell is the form the rice into a small ball (I know weird... but...) a cup is about the size of a tennis ball or your fist whichever works better for guestimating.

Hope that helps!

Edit: Or... the next time you order. Double check with the restaurant what comes in what size container.

Take the empty containers home and compare with a measuring cup.

Take your scale to work and weigh the rice.

I'm a big advocate of letting others do the work for me. A lot of restaurants offer nutrition information on menu items. Ask them to provide it to you so you don't have to figure it out yourself. Hopefully, they'll have it.

Unless it's a chain, they are unlikely to have nutritional information, but there is a lot of information on line that could give you a general idea.

I would bring a cup measure with me and just check. It would be worth the time just to be able to figure out the size so you would know how to count it.

I would think its about a cup.

It's a cup ladies. I measured it at home. Thanks for the advice.