reading menu in china...

mongo
 December 27, 2009, 04:27 AM posted in General Discussion

Hello all,

have Been experimenting with chinese recipes on the side...

Created this website which maybe use for some of you that iare n china and need to read a chinese menu...

http://phreshidea.com

hope you enjoy.

 

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xuexiansheng
 December 27, 2009, 08:28 AM

Nice Job! There is another website that I have seen, you might want to check it out for inspiration:

http://www.howtoorderchinesefood.com/

it was created by this fellow:

http://benross.net/wordpress/

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mongo
 December 27, 2009, 05:42 PM

good website!

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tiaopidepi
 December 27, 2009, 07:15 PM

Nice site!

There's also a book on the subject, from a professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. It's called The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters, by James McCauwley.

You can find it here: http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0-226-55592-5

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mongo
 December 29, 2009, 04:16 AM

thanks for the reference.  hoping to further improve the website in the coming weeks...