Deepa Mohan wrote:
Menu stacking (and ordering) has been refined to a digital art, you
know....that is, in some Chinese restaurants in LA, we have ordered "two
portions of no.124, with a side order of no. 48, please"....
Ah, picture menus. Far easier where scripts are confusingly similar
(have a mandarin speaker try to read japanese ..)
北山 - that's Kitayama (a subway station in Kyoto, Japan). A mandarin
speaker would keep finding himself pronouncing it as "beishan"
srs
ps: that's from my american friend in Taipei <lj user=jlick>