Good luck brother. I think your best bet would be to try making some of these recipes yourself and measuring the ingredients. At least then you can develop an eye for how much/how big of a portion you are getting compared to what you make yourself. I don't even eat out here in the US for that very reason - no idea what I'm getting.

I agree and since you're my friends I'm sure you've seen in my diary my own recipes that I use to log food. The problems are

1) I do not know all the recipes since my family cooks many of them for me. Meaning a curry that they make will have different ingredients or amount of oil, meat etc. they add compared to me. Sure I can ask but even they usually just ball park so its hard for them to tell me.

2) Being a visitor here (kinda) I have to eat out a lot with friends and family at restaurants. Or eat at my friend and families place. It is considered rude here to ask others what they put into the recipe. its rude to talk to others wives in this regard and also rude asking about what they put into their food as they take it me not trusting what they put into the food.

3) Many things here you get from restaurant. For example a type of bread we eat is a flat bread that is made with white flour and then deep fried in butter (super delicious btw). You have to get it from a restaurant unless you're planning to make a big batch at home and honestly its a pain in the *kitten* to make puri at home. Little things like these are very rough to avoid getting from outside and logging.

So far I've been kinda ballparking and overestimating but I am trying to see if there is a better way to make my guessing a little bit more accurate.