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Went to usual Saturday lunch at a Chinese place in Birmingham Chinatown. Recently I am a bit board of dim sum, so leaving D ordering his dim sums, I decided to order something else.

I asked our waitress to bring a menu (dim sum menu is on a separate sheet). She asked me if I understand Chinese. I felt compelled to say yes, so I said "yes". So here it is: my Chinese menu. Recently I have trained myself in Chinese menu reading, but still, I understand only 50%. I can get something totally unexpected.

But, telling you the truth, the same happens when I order from English menu, because 1) the English version often does not translate all what written in Chinese, 2) translation is sometimes inaccurate.

I wanted to order something like chow mein with chicken and vegetable, but I could not find something like that (I know, they could have made it, if only I asked), so I went for 雪菜火鴨絲炆米. My guess: it must contain vegetable and duck as it says "菜" and "鴨". They should be shredded as "絲" is thread or string. Probably it is mee fun noodle because of "米".

What I got was this.



Bingo. I got mee fun, duck, and vegetable. What I did not expect was pickled green, which must be 雪菜. Duck was roasted so 火鴨 was not just duck, but roast duck. Now I learned something new.



It was delicious, but the quantity was far too much for one person. It also was very gleasy, because of oil and especailly of the glease from the duck skin. We could not finish all, so brought one third home.

It was such a fun playing with Chinese menu. I will definitely do it again.