Making healthy eating yummy

Watching what you eat should be delicious as well as good for you, and restaurant entrepreneur Andrew Stevenson tells Mike Peters how to make it a habit.

There is plenty of red meat on offer, including a wasabi-edged beef tenderloin with yuzu miso. Omega-3 rich salmon appears in entrees and salad selections. Desserts include a satisfying yogurt panna cotta (48 yuan, or $7.30). There are bowls based on grains, but the menu is exuberant with flavor - not a boring marathon of brown rice and sprouts.

Andrew Stevenson, the founder of Beijing's Obentos restaurants, thinks more and more people are paying attention to healthy eating in China, in part because of food safety. But he doesn't kid himself that the enthusiasm is all about nutrition.