Wang's, Somerville: Can anyone translate?

[davis_sq_pro]

I was just checking out the Wang's menu, and I noticed that the back has a section completely in Chinese... The prices don't appear to correspond to anything else on the menu, and now I want to know what I'm missing. Can anyone translate? Perhaps there are a few gems in there :)

[Luther]

OK... so I'm sitting here watching the Sox and need something to occupy myself during the commercial breaks... so I have gone through the entire Chinese-only section and matched everything up with stuff from the English sections.

There are only a few items that don't appear in English:

- The previously mentioned $13.95 vegetable/fish soup
- Shredded beef with bitter melon
- Shredded pork with bitter melon

And here's everything else (the stuff that appears in English)

jumbo shrimp with spiced salt and pepper
dry sauteed jumbo shrimp
baby shrimp with cashew nuts
baby shrimp with cucumber
shell on jumbo shrimp and turnip soup
house special whole tilapia
whole fish with sweet and sour sauce
steamed fish with ginger and scallion
fish with tofu clay pot
crispy butter fish
fried squid with spiced salt and pepper
spicy squid with vegetable
eel with sour piddle sauce
crispy eel with special sauce
spicy sauteed sea conch with thai basil
home style sea cucumber and pork
pork thigh with sea cucumber
fish with tofu clay pot
szechuan style bone-in chicken
spicy bone-in chicken in brown sauce
diced chicken with pepper in chili sauce
diced chicken with black mushroom
minced tofu with seafood
orange flavor beef
crispy beef with sesame
beef with scallion
shredded beef with spicy green pepper
peking style shredded pork in plum sauce
traditional yu shang style shredded pork
smoked bean curd with shredded pork
dish of pork thigh (meat lover)
chestnut with fatty pork
northern style pork sparerib
spareribs with sweet and sour sauce
spareribs with spiced salt and pepper
house special sauce braised intestine
fried intestine with spicy green pepper
stir fried pork tripe with vegetable
shredded pork tripe with sour piddle
stir fried pea pod stems
yu shang eggplant in garlic sauce
dry sauteed string beans
shanghai cabbage with black mushroom
spinach with garlic sauce
shredded potato in vinegar sauce
stir fry sprouts in vinegar sauce
stir fry cucumber with scrambled egg

[davis_sq_pro]

Wow, great work!!!

BTW, I tried the crispy eel with special sauce tonight. It wasn't especially crispy, and the eel itself was tough--and I broke the "no fish on Mondays" rule. But the special sauce was amazing...

[Luther]

It's just a selection of dishes (shown elsewhere in the menu in both English and Chinese) that Chinese people might like. Or you might consider these to be the most "authentic" dishes. The prices do correspond, just look again. The first two dishes ($10.95) are fried shrimp dishes, shown under "house specialties".

[jimmydingle]

does this place deliver to boston?

[davis_sq_pro]

The menu says "limited delivery area"... I doubt it.

[davis_sq_pro]

You're right about the shrimp dishes, but the first one on mine is $13.95, and I don't see anything else on the menu at that price... Maybe a misprint.

[Luther]

Yeah, there's a few different versions of that menu, and I think the $13.95 thing has been eliminated. The extent of my Chinese food knowledge is that the last two characters in the $13.95 thing are "fish" and "soup".

Almost everything in the Chinese section is from the "house specialties" section.