"learning to be an aware eater"

Mei Wah: Eating in Chinese. "Like Calvin Trillin (most famously) and many others, I have never quite been able to sit down to a meal in a Chinese restaurant without wondering. Wondering if the Chinese characters on the menu said the same thing as the alleged English translations. Wondering what goodies I was missing from the Chinese-only specials board on the wall." The author learned to read enough Chinese to decipher a menu and you can too! [via The Girl Who Ate Everything]