We’ve all been asked by eager Chinese people how we like Chinese food – in fact, there’s a great article on this from the Chinese perspective in China Media – and after extensive hands-on research (and sometimes my chopsticks abilities fail and I have no choice but to take matters, literally, into my own hands) I’ve found that most foreigners do indeed love Chinese food.

For some reason Xinjiang food, spicy lamb skewers and cumin-laced nan bread, is always a favorite with expats but quite a few of us happily dive into any and all Chinese cuisine be it chou dofu or biang biang mian. But no expat has taken their passion and interest in Chinese food to such a high and helpful level as Benjamin Ross.

The man who once worked in a Fuzhou barbershop has created the website How to Order Chinese Food Dot Com which he describes as, ”The one-stop source for eating your way through Middle Kingdom.”

While that’s certainly true, there’s more to it than that: ordering guides (available in .PDF form!), regional cuisine, pictures, pinyin, characters, pictures, and descriptions of each dish make this a practical compendium of Chinese food interesting even to those of us who’ve been eating in China for years. The site is both amazingly thorough (need to read up on condiments or dishware and utensils?) and readable. Anyone coming to China for a visit or looking to expand their culinary horizons should check it out before their next meal out.

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