Learn how to read the Chinese menu

[almostwitty]

Despite being genetically Chinese, I have no idea how to read off the Chinese menu. So I’m reduced to ordering off the English menu – which is fine and great, but vaguely-remembered childhood delicacies are rather beyond me.

So thank goodness for kake’s guide on learning how to read off the Chinese menu, which I will study with great interest. And then never have the courage to use – because what self-respecting Chinese person doesn’t know how to order off the Chinese menu? And if I get it a little wrong, I’ll feel far more embarassed than if I’d never tried in the first place.

Incidentally, while searching for an appropriate video, I found a ton of videos which basically show white and non-white people talking fluent Cantonese. Why ?! I mean, I find it oddly fascinating but surely not everyone else does? We don’t see videos of Chinese speakers speaking English (or Russian) with aplomb…

Mirrored from almost witty.

Comments

[charlycrash.livejournal.com]

I would imagine that 1L Mandarin (or Cantonese) 2L English people are an awful lot more common than 1L English 2L Mandarin people, so the latter are more remarkable.

I seem to remember there's more English speakers in China than there are in the US, or something equally ridiculous.