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About ChinatownMenu.com
ChinatownMenu.com is a guide to Chinese restaurant menus, regional cuisines, ordering patterns, cooking methods, ingredients, and menu vocabulary.
What this site does
The site helps readers understand what they are seeing when they open a Chinese restaurant menu. It explains regional cuisines, menu categories, cooking verbs, sauces, starches, ingredients, dim sum terms, ordering patterns, and diaspora menu formats.
Menus as maps
A restaurant menu contains more than dish names. It reflects region, language, migration, ingredients, cooking technique, customer expectations, and commercial adaptation. Reading a menu carefully can reveal what kind of restaurant you are in and how to order more intelligently.