Survival Kit "Food" Feedback

There are 49 useful words in this section, though many of them are westernized such as jam, strawberry jam, nutella, peanut butter, hamburger, fries. It would help if more Chinese style dishes and terms were included. Dishes such as noodles, pot stickers, shrimp, sea cucumber, toufu, congee would help. Also cooking styles such as stir fried, fried, curried, roasted, shredded would be helpful.

Hi Robert, Yes, that's a great point. It's something we have been talking about here at Rocket Languages, so is hopefully something we will work on improving in the not-too-distant future. Unfortunately we don't have any set plans in place, but I will raise this issue again with the team. Thanks for your feedback!

Hi Robert, I just wanted to let you know that we have added this task to a To Do list. We are flat out at the moment with other projects, but as soon as we have some time, we will start work on adding more vocab to the Food lesson. Thanks again!

Well, this inspired me to create my own Quizlet flashcard set and the one modeled after the Food survival guide has 182 words in it. Here is a link to the folder containing some of those sets. http://quizlet.com/RobertC7/folders/rocket-chinese-survival-guide

Thanks for sharing that, Robert. It's helpful. Now if I could just learn the characters so I can take advantage of all your lists! I, too, would like to see Chinese dishes listed more than Western foods. Most restaurants won't have American food. I'd like to know what I'm ordering.

That is one reason I create the lists in triplicate - one with english and pinyin , another with english and hanzi, and the third with pinyin and hanzi. The Rocket Chinese writing lessons are a good start. I do have all three version for the food list. Earlier I thought I had not created an English to Pinyin set.

OK - I just checked. Now I create the study lists in triplicate. I also build them in an Excel spreadsheet so I can copy and paste in two columns at a time. I guess I did not create an English to Pinyin for the food list.

I know the names of two of my favorite Chinese dishes: jīdàn chǎofàn, egg fried rice and yú xiāng qiézi, fish fragrant eggplant.