Eat China with Confidence: The Bilingual Menu Reader and Food Phrasebook — 250+ Dishes, Ingredients, and Ordering Phrases in English, Chinese, and Pinyin

You don't need to speak Mandarin to eat brilliantly in China. You need this book in your pocket. Every day, millions of travelers sit down at a restaurant in China, smile, and order blind. Eat China with Confidence fixes that. This is not another phrasebook you'll forget at home. It is a bilingual field guide built for your phone: open it at the table, find the dish, the pinyin, and what it actually is — then order exactly what you want. What's inside: How Chinese menus actually work — decode cooking methods (炒 stir-fried, 蒸 steamed, 炸 deep-fried, 烤 roasted) at a glance 250+ real dishes, ingredients, and drinks in English + Simplified Chinese + pinyin What the name really means — so “husband and wife's lung slices” and “ants climbing a tree” stop being mysteries Ordering scripts for every situation: casual restaurants, hotpot, banquets, street food, delivery, and food courts Dietary survival: vegetarian, vegan, halal, no cilantro, no MSG, allergies (peanut, shellfish, gluten…) Regional cheat sheets: Sichuan, Hunan, Cantonese, Shanghai, Beijing, Xinjiang, Yunnan, and more A character decoder that turns you into a menu detective “Too spicy,” “not spicy,” “one more bowl of rice,” and every phrase you'll actually say Written for travelers and food lovers by bilingual editors who know both what the menu says and what the kitchen really means. Eat first. Ask questions later — but ask the right questions.