This has only ever been fantastically interesting and useful to me. Never in any way coming across as showing off.
I have an excellent chinese restaurant close to my work with a chinese-only menu and started, exactly like you, with the aim of being able to order from this. I really started making progress when I found you blog and without it I doubt I would have got as far as I have now. I've no where near your breadth of knowledge but can now confidently identify most of the common dishes.
I notice one of the comments saying they are surprised menus are only in chinese. All I can say is this is not confined to London. Where I am the place caters for a strong local chinese community and has a range of regional dishes. I tried the Hakka-style deep-fried large intestines at dim sum the other day, which were excellent.
Thanks
Date: 2011-06-23 02:12 pm (UTC)I have an excellent chinese restaurant close to my work with a chinese-only menu and started, exactly like you, with the aim of being able to order from this. I really started making progress when I found you blog and without it I doubt I would have got as far as I have now. I've no where near your breadth of knowledge but can now confidently identify most of the common dishes.
I notice one of the comments saying they are surprised menus are only in chinese. All I can say is this is not confined to London. Where I am the place caters for a strong local chinese community and has a range of regional dishes. I tried the Hakka-style deep-fried large intestines at dim sum the other day, which were excellent.
So a big thanks from me.