The most annoying thing about not speaking or understanding Chinese is less that I don’t understand the words but more that my family’s dialect isn’t even Mandarin so for food words I’m looking for something that ok I can’t spell anyway but also isn’t even going to be close to the most common version of that word.

oooh always exciting when I’m listening to a podcast and it mentions something like the Cinque Ports and like… I have heard of it! I saw a thing at a castle/museum!