Ok, is it me, but even if you give yourself a generous dose of Humalog at the beginning/before eating chinese food… No matter how well you stick to eating less of the “worse things”… you still end up giving yourself another round of humalog and a high BG 2+ hours later…
Did you know that chinese sauces are thickened with 2 or 3 tablespoons of corn starch? It really does a number on your blood sugar. The soups are have a lot of this thickner too.
I’ve been able to eat chinese stir fries with lots of veggies and some protein, and I ask to have the corn starch left out of the sauce. I can eat a small cup of hot and sour soup without much of a sugar spike.
Knew there was corn starch but even with keeping things on the low with sauces and trying to avoid the fried stuff… Might explain some of the impending glucose spike…Would explain the “delay” as well…
Like others have said, Chinese food is typically prepared with all kinds of things that jack up your blood glucose. The tastes are unique and do not always indicate how many carbohydrates are really inside. I mostly avoid it now for this reason. It can be worse than the pizza monster.
being a chef it is definately true that they use a lot of sugars in their sauces. they also use cornstarch in them which has carbs. i’ve found rice to be a sneaky food item too. it doesn’t seem like you are eating many carbs but boy does it pack a punch!! chinese food is hard for me too. one time i won’t take enough insulin and be high, the next i will take to much trying to learn from my mistakes and i’m low an hour later. sushi seems to be even harder to figure out!!
If you go for a healthy option (most menus have this, some sort of veggie and chicken that has been steamed) and ask for the sauce on the side so you can moderately dip for flavor, you can have more stable sugars. Don’t eat the white rice though, I have found it harder to control the highs if I eat the rice too. I just make a cup of brown rice to go with my steamed chicken and broccoli if I am in the mood for rice. Plus if you skip the rice you can have a veggie spring roll 
High in fat but only about 15g of carbs! I love egg drop soup but it doesn’t work for me any more, I go low then I go high…darn cornstarch!
I love sushi, but can’t handle it either between the rice itself & the sugar (or rice syrup) that’s used in sushi rice. That sticky rice has a ton more carbs than regular white rice. I have it with no rice–sashimi.
Me and the family used to order Chinese takeaway and it does make sugar levels sky-rocket. I prefer making it and just avoid using sugar where I can, although with far-eastern cuisine, sugar is a common ingredient. The takeaways taste great but only because they’re full of salt and sugar.
you might want to try taking some insulin right before you eat the chinese food then check your BG an hour after and if it raised a little then add some more so that it can cover you for the rest of the meal. i have found that with having a pump my blood sugar typically drops when i have the combo bolus which splits my dosage over a certain amount of time, when i eat chinese.