OT Restaurants of Cultures Other Than Your Own / was Mexican restaurants

[Guest guest]

We've been chatting a bit about problems of finding veg*n food, especially if

the

waitperson has little or no knowledge of one's own language.

 

Some personal thoughts: I don't expect everyone to be able to speak English (of

course, I

live in Canada and I also travel a bit overseas, so this is really is personal

opinion stuff

only) therefore I do find it helps to try to learn the needed phrases in the

various

languages so that I can communicate a tiny bit, even if the responses aren't

always as clear

to me LOL If I think my memory might fail, I write it down. If I don't know how

to say it, I

write it phonetically for my use only. All the usual gimmicks :=)

 

But hey, we all know all this, right? And there's even a site you can go to that

tells you how

to say I Am Vegetarian in a zillion languages - and there are the translating

dictionaries on

the web so that you can copy down essential phrases (No meat, no meat stock, no

gelatine, no milk, cheese or eggs or honey, etc.. It's much easier on the nerves

and makes

for greater enjoyment. I carry a small notebook.

 

Other tips?

 

Best love, Pat