It just hit me that if you have a Chinese restaurant that makes tea smoked duck and you like it, that's a great choice with some veggies.

Also if you skip a combo meal because of the accompanying carbs and just order a full entrée of chicken/veggies like Moo Goo Gi Pan (spelling?) that would give you more food. Just eat the meat and veggies and leave as much sauce as you can.

I think the hot and sour soup verses the egg drop are about the same as far as carbs go because the Chinese restaurants in the US mostly all use the thickener, corn starch.

The only Asian restaurant that I've seen that have clear broth soups are Japanese restaurants.

It always astonishes me how the hot and sour is the same everywhere I go so I wonder if they don't buy it pre-made.