But have no fear! Turns out, plenty of Chinese restaurants actually have a “secret” menu that they give to Chinese people and fluent speakers. This menu includes traditional Chinese dishes ...

I learned this years ago when a Chinese gourmet took me to a fluorescent-lit basement restaurant in New York's Chinatown. The waiter handed my wife and me a pink menu in English, and a blue one in ...

Harley Spiller’s collection of Chinese restaurant menus numbers about 10,000, but one of his favourites is from 1898 – a beautiful page with drawings of boats, lanterns and menu items written in ...

The trick to getting that “secret” menu is to really try to converse. If you are at a restaurant without Chinese-speaking friends, give the waiter back the English menu and ask for the ...