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Can a French food guide read the Chinese table?

CGTN

06:23

Chinese menu translations can be hilarious. But at a French food guide event in Beijing, CGTN Digital reporter Yu Qiuyuan realized the real question is not just how to translate the name of a dish. It's how to translate an entire food culture.

She asked guests at the launch of the Gault&Millau food guide to take a quick translation taste test and see what gets lost, or found, when Chinese cuisine enters a global food guide.

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