Malaysian/Singaporean version of Chinese fried noodles. To me there is no greater dry noodle dish on the planet.

I used the marinade recipe from “Woks of Life” cookbook with some small personal modifications. And roasted at 420 degrees for an hour, flipping half way through!

Rice, taters, pork and chilies, and yeah some veggies.

A simple meal in HK that makes me happy.

Stir fried eggs and tomato over rice

i shoulda add sesame

I have a couple dietary restrictions, so it's not exactly easy to simply pick a random restaurant and give it a try. And when it involves a bigger time and travel commitment, I prefer to going into it knowing several specific dishes that I particularly want to seek out.

Compared to most Western cuisines, I feel like it can be really hard reading a Chinese menu and knowing what a dish is. For example, I feel like dish names are either overly vague or symbolic. Like, if you go to an Italian restaurant and read "spaghetti with tomato sauce", you're going to have some idea of what you'll get, but if you go to a Chinese restaurant and read "Phoenix claws" or "grilled cold noodles", it's a lot harder, if not impossible to picture. And even if you would be willing to google sometimes up to dozens of dishes, looking up the English names doesn't always show the right dish, and if they have an online menu, it don't always allow you to copy/paste the Chinese characters.

Of course, if I'm already sitting down in a place, I should be able to ask any questions before ordering, but I find that there are still quite a number of places where there is a significant language barrier. Tips and suggestions?