Download my Chinese-English restaurant menu with Pinyin romanization free of charge

NEW UPDATED VERSION IS NOW AVAILABLE (July 2005)

Before you leave to celebrate the Chinese New Year (Congratulations!) or set your traveler's foot on Chinese soil, OneFootPrint.com wants to present you with a hard-to-find gift — a big easy-to-comprehend Chinese-English menu. Whether your are a tourist in China, a restaurant owner or a cook, I will be delighted if you took some time to download this unique bilingual creation.

Please, note that it has been translated into English to suit the expats' needs in China, particularly in the North of China. Since most foreigners in the Middle Kingdom barely speak any Chinese, the menu comes complete with Pinyin romanization to assist them in reading the charachters to order meals in restaurants.

Prices mentioned are in Renminbi Chinese Yuan and reflect the current pricing situation in mid-range Chinese restaurants in the North of China more or less accurately, but are not to be taken as a set standard. You may as well be charged a little less or much more for the same dish or drink in different restaurants.

Many dishes included in this menu may have a different name in different parts of China or even in different restaurants situated next door to one another. Some businesses may not be able to cook you some of the dishes mentioned or give you some of the drinks you might be asking for. In any case, OneFootPrint is not to be held liable for whatever financial losses or any other damages directly or indirectly related to this menu.

For your convenience, to exclude any possible problems with encoding and Chinese fonts, all the pages of the menu have been converted to graphics (.jpg) and included in one big .pdf file that can be read with Adobe Acrobat software available free of charge. If your computer supports Chinese encoding, you may as well choose to download the menu in .rtf or .doc formats.

The new updated version of this popular download in .doc format is now available. The updated version is just as informative, but more compact in size.

I would love to hear your comments about my work. Send your emails directly from this website using my "contact us" page.

Enjoy!

Denis.

July 2005