>I had just arrived in China, had an unexpected overnight stay in a remot-ish city with my wife/kids, none of us could (yet) speak/read any Chinese, and the res

>I had just arrived in China, had an unexpected overnight stay in a remot-ish city with my wife/kids, none of us could (yet) speak/read any Chinese, and the restaurant menu had no pictures (and of course no one spoke a word of English). That was always a favorite of mine. Walk into a restaurant in (NYC's) chinatown where there were only Asian folks and no English menus. I'd usually just point at something someone else was eating. It was almost always glorious. :)