Announcing a new event for The San Diego Chinese Language Meetup Group!

What: Chinese Sunday Brunch with International/ESL Group

When: Sunday, August 13, 11:30 AM

Where: Click the link below to find out!

Event Description: Tokyo Jim from the International/ESL group is going to Shanghai City for Chinese Brunch. Being the Chinese group, we should probably help them out with ordering from a Chinese menu. So if you can read the menu or know the cuisine, go for brunch and help out the hungry. If you can't go, but know the menu, send your translations to Tokyo Jim so he can help get the food on the table.

Here's Tokyo Jim's original message:

When most people think of Chinese breakfast, they think of "dim sum" (AKA "yum cha"), the traditional morning / mid-day meal of Guangdong province, and by extension, Hong Kong.

But once you're outside of Cantonese territory, all bets are off. Chinese food can vary quite a bit from province to province and even village to village, and this means breakfasts do too.

On the weekends, Shanghai City serves a good variety of breakfast items from non-Cantonese locales. Come experience many of these dishes as we sample as many as we can (the bigger the group, the more variety).

The catch is that the menu (see http://tokyojim.com/C.... ) is only in Chinese, so we hope to have some Chinese join us to help with the ordering.

You can call me on the day of the event on 858-558-1234.

Learn more and RSVP here:
http://chinese.meetup...

Here is a menu translation of.. being a student of Chinese I couldn't resist... chance to use simplfied characters. English xlation, simplfied characters and pinyin.

http://mmm-yoso.typep...

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Saturday, Sunday ? Special priced lunch
星期六，日，特价午餐
xing qi liu, ri, te jia wu can

Column 1

1. Shanghai fried rice cakes 上海炒年糕
shanghai chao nian gao

2. Shanghai style thick fried noodles 上海粗炒面
shanghai cu chao mian

3. Snow cabbage pork noodles 雪菜肉丝面
xue cai rou si mian

4. Oil (tender) tofu and vermicelli soup油豆腐粉丝面
you dou fu fen si mian

5. Dry stirfried beef flat rice noodles 干炒牛河
gan chao niu he

6. Bokchoy dumplings (boiled) 白菜水饺
bai cai shui jiao

7. Beef noodle soup牛肉面
niao rou mian

8. Eel paste noodle soup鳝糊面
shan hu mian

9. Shangdang soup(双挡汤)
shangdang tang

10. Shanghai cold noodle 上海凉面
shanghai liang mian

11. Shanghai pinenut cake 上海松糕
shanghai song gao


Column 2
1. Rice cake stirfried with mustard greens 芥菜炒年糕
jie cai chao nian gao

2. Rice Cake stirfried with snow cabbage 雪菜炒年糕
xue cai chao nian gao

3. Wonton soup with mustard greens 芥菜云吞汤
jie cai yun tun tang

4. Shrimp wonton soup 虾肉云吞汤
xia rou yun tun tang

5. Sesame rice ball soup 芝麻汤圆
zhi ma tang yuan

6. Asian chive dumplings (boiled) 韭菜水饺
jiu cai shui jiao

7. Spicy (beef) noodle soup 辣肉面
la rou mian

8. Eight treasures rice 八宝饭
ba bao fan

9. Zhajiang sauce noodles 炸酱面
zha jian mian

10. Potstickers 锅贴
guo tie

11. Stinky tofu 臭豆腐
chou dou fu

I translated the second menu which is of cold dishes and hot dishes... very interesting menu.. a couple typical Shanghai dishes.

here is the menu picture

http://mmm-yoso.typep...

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Cold dishes, liang cai 凉菜
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1. Shaosing Drunken chicken 绍兴醉鸡 3.75
shao xing jui zi

2. ?Husband/wife? (beef) lung slices夫妻肺片 5.75
fu qi fei pian

3. Cold rice noodle sheets凉拌粉皮
lian ben fen pi

4. Jellyfish with scallion oil 葱油海蜇
cong you hai zhe

5. Pressed marinated tofu 油豆干 1.95
you dou gan



Column 2
1. Fragrant steamed bun ??? 香干马兰头 4.75
xiang gan ma lan tou

2. 1000 Year & egg tofu 皮蛋豆腐 3.75
pi dan dou fu


3. Suzhou style smoked fish 苏式？鱼 4.75
su shi ??? yu

4. Garlic Pork hock (loaf) slices?? 蒜泥白肉 4.75
suan ni bai rou ? almost like a head loaf I believe..


Column 3
1. Vegetarian Duck, 素鸭 4.75
su ji

2. Duck with sauce, 酱鸭
jiang ya

3. Can?t read whole thing 酱顺风？？
jiang shun feng??

4. Garlic paste sea.. something.. 蒜茸海
suan rong hai??


Stirfried Dishes
炒菜

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Column 1
1. Stirfried Prawns鲜竹虾球 9.95
xian zhu xia qiu

2. Something oil hard tofu 油鲜见豆腐 8.95
?? you dou fu jian dou fu

3. Spiced salt sole fillets 椒盐龙利片 8.95
jiao yan long li pian

4. Something fish fillets 豆？？鱼片 9.95

5. Fish and pinenut soup ?? 松仁鱼米 9.95
song ren yu mi ? I think I?ve had this before?. either in Zhejiang province or in LA. They take the fish paste and make tiny jelly bean size fish balls with it and put in soup.



Column 2
1. Spicy salt frog (legs) 椒盐田鸡 12.95
jiao yan tian ji ? literally spicy salt ?farm chicken?

2. Stirfried frog (legs) 生炒田鸡 10.95
sheng chao tian ji

3. Taro and duck clay pot 香芋鸭煲 7.95
xiang yu ya bao

4. Crispy fried duck 香酥鸭 7.95
xiang su ya

5. Water cooked beef 水煮牛肉 7.95
shui zhu niu rou

6. Yellow chive fish fillet 韭黄鱼片 9.95
jiu huang yu pian

Andy,

THANK YOU for the translations. They are great. I'm sure there may be more questions as to what the types of food is. We can use this message board to discuss if anyone has questions about a particular item. Now that I see the pinyin, I have a much better idea and can describe the items.

Hope you can join the group for brunch. Be sure to look for Tokyo Jim - he is organizing this one.

Thanks again,

Connie

Thanks so much Andy. That's great!

Even China-born friends of mine have been clueless as to half the menu. This will help a lot. I would like to eventually give an English version to the restaurant (unless they prefer the laowai to just order the sweet & sour pork).

I'm thrilled someone found it usefull! As events this weekend are unfolding, I don't think I will be able to make it down to SD this weekend

hope to meet you guys next time.