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>

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