China Food, Drink, And Jackie Chan

Ben Ross, of Ben's Blog fame, just came out with an interesting new website appropriately entitled, How to Order Chinese Food. I will let Ben explain:

The new site is now up and running and will be a comprehensive (as possible) guide to Chinese food geared towards Western taste buds. There are listings of different Chinese dishes organized by both content (beef, pork, veggie, etc) and region. Each item contains a picture, Chinese characters, pinyin, and an English description. In the future I will have many of the pages in PDF so that they can be printed off and taken along for meals to aid in ordering.
There is also a glossary to Chinese culinary words. If you’ve ever wondered how to say shiitake mushroom or MSG, this will be a good spot to look. In addition to Chinese food there is also a page on Western fast food terminology in Chinese, including those words specific to McDonald’s.

It is shaping into an excellent and very informative site.

For great information on China's drinking scene, be sure to check out Beijing Boyce, which, arguably, is very indirectly endorsed by both Jackie Chan and Robert Palmer.

Comments

Hmmm, there's another way to order.

Sort of like Japanese restaurant's "omakase", (thou not in the menu), most restaurants in China will also do a "chef's recommendation" based on headcount and budget. Like table of 4 it's usually 3 dish 1 soup.

Posted by: Charles Liu | August 6, 2007 4:47 PM

A comparative food blog? It sounds as improbable as a blog about nothing but China Law. Who could be interested in THAT?

And wearing silly hats on TV and strumming a guitar is reserved for Canucks!

Is this the new U.S. Da Shan?

Posted by: Mark | August 7, 2007 7:27 PM