#google connect live 2019
I don’t want to admit, but I start being so addictive to google scoring when looking for a restaurant.
It was a typical travel day. I was seeking a place to eat, my mental filter was as simple as:
- Score>4
- Viewed by over 100
- Score>4
This took less than 5 minutes.
Soon I sit down at the restaurant. Came the menus.
As a Chinese, a huge culture shock to me is the menu.
The Chinese menu is always designed as a booklet of pictures, while almost all the menu I see in other countries, especially in Europe, are at most 3 pieces of paper with pain text.
It is so common for me and my friends to take out the mobile phone and check the dictionary.
(Here is a free promotion space for Google Translate:)
Live translation of a menu is definitely a best use case of Google Translate.
But sometimes, even it is translated to my mother language, I still don’t understand.
Google Photo is an alternative solution, as long as you have patient to check the dishes on the menu one by one.
10 min passed. I started to ask the waiter instead, who tried his best to explain.
(Confusing face)
He Explained with his gestures.
(Even more confusing face)
He Explained with his gestures plus his facial expressions.
Ah… yes! I pretended I somehow understood.
It was just a start.
Indeed, It happens quite often to me that even I understand each letter of the menu, I still don’t know what to choose.
These are the reasons that I care so much about the specialty menu of the restaurants!!!
This is the restaurant I’ve been there to over 10 times, and finally, I know the pineapple fried rice, Thai ice tea are the best choices.
(Pineapple Fried rice in London vs Pineapple fried rice in Phuket.)
This is a Spanish Tapas. Reading Spanish-only menu is a challenge for non-Spanish speaker. So I was happy to list out the dishes worth trying with the photos.
Same story when it comes to a French restaurant.
There are also some restaurants with a secret menu.
There was one day I read a short novel. It was about a romantic love story that happened in a real Japanese restaurant in London. I shared the novel to my friend. Together we were so excited to figure out how a dish described in the story.
Unfortunately, we failed to find it on the menu. it was until we asked the chief, we released that it is a secret menu and we have to order in advance.
This is a Chinese restaurant in London. Not all people know you can order one duck cooked in three ways.
This is another example. it is interest to know the connect between a small restaurant and the world class university - London School of Economics. The secret menu here called LSE fried rice.
The special menu also happened in my trip. This a restaurant in Copenhagen and we happened to have the Sunday menu.
It is a exciting thing to see a good restaurant with high scores.
It is more exciting to me to know the high score dishes in that high score restaurant.
