I am not abstaining from all calorie-dense foods. I let myself enjoy ice cream, my peanuts and other calorie-dense foods, provided they are truly satisfying to me. It’s plain stupid to incur high calorie cost without satisfaction , but we all do that stupid thing.

You would question who the hell would eat fattening yet not-extremely-satisfying foods but, like I said in ## satisfying@low-cal reality often defies intuition. Our intuition about calorie density is plain naive.

Taste is personal, so here is the list for my taste bud, roughly ranked by surprise:

1. buns, cakes and cookies with sugar frost
2. most cream cake
3. butter cookies and most other cookies
4. egg yolk
5. Most nuts — including cashew, almonds … are NOT more tasty than my unshelled peanuts !
6. fried prawns (often with cream dip) in social events or Ichiban…
7. cheap cream crackers — lemon cream, cheese cream, peanut butter cream
8. big visible fat in cooked beef, pork, chicken, Beijing duck
9. mint and green-tea flavor ice cream and cakes
10. most social foods — esp. coated-fried or cheesy
11. white creams in salads in Ichiban etc
12. [sg]  buns with cheap cream filling
13. [sg] white sour creams on coated-fried food
14. olive oil — see separate blog olive oil
15. chicken skin, esp. fried
16. [sg] fried fish ball
17. [sg] Malay food with lots of coconut milk
18. Most sugary drinks and alcohol
19. Standard-fixture oily salted peanut offered in every China restaurant.