Comments on: How To Order Chinese Food Dot Com

By: Muchos

Muchos — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:30:57 +0000

just wanted to thank you for that site.
just exactly what i was looking for, my chinese is fairly average but I’m really stuck when it comes to dishes as I had to remember today, when I returned to China after 2 years.
As I hoped, someone on the Internet had already put some hard effort into some nice compendium like this. Thanks a lot! You’re awesome.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:29:52 +0000

The site hasn’t been working for me for a few weeks now – a great loss to my lunchtime adventures. Has the address changed or something similar?

By: markov

markov — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:26:54 +0000

hey ben,

this food site is awesome, we at nanjingnow.com wanted to provide something for the people in nanjing since a year ago already, but never got down to something concrete, cos we really found it difficult to do something as concise as yours!!!!

; )

anyway, we’ve put it on the homepage now as a link. hopefully, more people will be encouraged to enter a chinese restaurant and not be afraid to order their dish. we will too!

cheers!

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:43:52 +0000

Hi,

I have only just discovered your http://www.howtoorderchinesefood.com/ site and would like to congratulate you on the idea and contents.

I would like to suggest, that in order to drive more traffic to your site, you add a section for friendly links.

I am regularly providing services (both business and destination/relocation) for new assignees. I will start to recommend that they visit your site. It would though be far easier if we could find a way to have a reciprocal link.

My site is http://www.china-expert.org and tell me if you are interested in a link exchange.

Regards

Colin

By: Benjamin Ross

Benjamin Ross — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:19:37 +0000

Rob-
The idea behind the site is that you print out the Chinese characters and show them to the server. For people that can already speak some Chinese they can use the site to expand their food vocabulary. But if you don’t really speak any Chinese, the best way to communicate what you want is by using the written language. Because Chinese is a tonal language, you can’t simply read the transliteration and expect people to understand what you are saying. It doesn’t work. When I first began studying Chinese, it took me about 2 months before people could actually understand anything I was saying.

I found early on that if I really needed to communicate something important (i.e. an address, or in this case, what I am going to eat) the most sure way was to have a Chinese friend write it down, and then show the characters to somebody. That being said, I’m still planning a section on “Restaurant Chinese” which will teach some common phrases and terminology used while eating.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:51:00 +0000

Hi Ben,

I saw this mentioned a few other times, but I would really like to see a section that details what you actually need to say to get this stuff on your table. In any case, great site and thanks!

Rob

By: Benjamin Ross

Benjamin Ross — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:41:31 +0000

Liuzhou-
Thanks for pointing out the error. Mistake being corrected.

By: Liuzhou

Liuzhou — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:17:24 +0000

In your beef section, you have 孜然牛肉 and suggest a mutton alternative, 孜然羊肉. You’ve given the pinyin for this, but it reads ” 孜然羊肉 (zi1 ran2 niu2 rou4)” instead of yang2 rou4

By: Chris D

Chris D — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:08:41 +0000

Hmm, i’m actually in china – must be my corporate network tricking the site into believing I’m in Germany.

By: Chris D

Chris D — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:07:15 +0000

Your La Zi Ji dish, i *think* should be called La Zi Ji Ding.

The La Zi Ji, or Chongqing La Zi Ji is the deep fried chicken (with or without bones) with lots and lots and lots of chili peppers and hua jiao. That’s the best dish. Ever! I find the La Zi Ji Ding (the one you have pictured) boring…