http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/02/26/my-taiwanese-friends-in-israel/ A different look at Asia, China and Taiwan Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:43:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/02/26/my-taiwanese-friends-in-israel/#comment-3694 A Chinese dinner in Jerusalem | fiLi’s world Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:36:51 +0000 http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/02/26/my-taiwanese-friends-in-israel/#comment-3694 [...] The restaurant staff and owners are Chinese, and I thought that it would mean that the girls would feel more at home being able to browse through a Chinese menu and converse in Mandarin with the waiter, but there was no Chinese menu, and the Chinese staff had close to zero Mandarin skills, being from Hongkong and mainly speaking Cantonese. On the way there we kept promising the girls authentic "Dimsum" only to realize at the table that the Shandong girls didn’t really recognize what we meant when we used this Cantonese word for dumplings, yet we were quite pleased with the Dimsum offered. Following was a selection of beef, chicken, duck and sea-food dishes, with titles like "Mongolian BBQ" and explanations sounding like "Chicken, yes, spicy not spicy, all very good". It was a pretty good attempt compared to other Chinese restaurants in Jerusalem, even though quite far from my culinary experiences in Asia (or at the Taiwanese visit the previous weekend). [...] [...] The restaurant staff and owners are Chinese, and I thought that it would mean that the girls would feel more at home being able to browse through a Chinese menu and converse in Mandarin with the waiter, but there was no Chinese menu, and the Chinese staff had close to zero Mandarin skills, being from Hongkong and mainly speaking Cantonese. On the way there we kept promising the girls authentic "Dimsum" only to realize at the table that the Shandong girls didn’t really recognize what we meant when we used this Cantonese word for dumplings, yet we were quite pleased with the Dimsum offered. Following was a selection of beef, chicken, duck and sea-food dishes, with titles like "Mongolian BBQ" and explanations sounding like "Chicken, yes, spicy not spicy, all very good". It was a pretty good attempt compared to other Chinese restaurants in Jerusalem, even though quite far from my culinary experiences in Asia (or at the Taiwanese visit the previous weekend). [...]

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