🥢 The 10-Day Mandarin Menu Reading Challenge 🍜

🥢 Join the 10-Day Mandarin Menu Reading Challenge — spend 10 minutes a day learning to read a Chinese menu and actually order what you want. 🍜

Studying Mandarin can be a grind, but it doesn't have to happen alone. 💪 Ten days, ten minutes a day, and you'll go from squinting at characters 😵‍💫 to spotting 牛肉, 炒, 麵 and ordering straight off the Chinese menu like a pro. 🎉

How it works 📬

Each morning you'll get a real Chinese menu in your inbox. Look up a dish (or a whole section, if you're feeling bold) and see how far you can get on your own.

It's free, and it's a lot more fun than studying by yourself. 🎉

Why this one actually sticks 🎯

Each day is just one menu and one dish — small enough that you'll actually do it. And because you pick how deep you go, beginners and advanced readers do the same challenge side by side.

By the end, you'll 🏆

• 🀄 Recognize the characters that show up on menus everywhere — 炒, 蒸, 烤, 牛肉, 麵, 飯…
• 🍽️ Order off a Chinese menu instead of pointing at pictures
• 🔥 Have read every single day for 10 days, and felt a habit start to stick

What you get, free 🎁

• 📨 A real Chinese menu in your inbox every morning
• ⏰ A daily reminder so you never have to remember
• 📹 A live group video call to finish

The daily loop (about 10 minutes) 🔁

1. Find a dish 🔎 — beginners, spot one you'd actually eat; advanced, translate a whole section
2. See how you did — every menu comes with the answers

No pressure to be perfect. Traditional and simplified both welcome.

Who it's for: 🌏 anyone learning Mandarin who loves food and travel — whether you know ten characters or a thousand. Total beginner? Perfect. A clumsy first guess is exactly what this is for.

I'm Walt, an upper-intermediate Mandarin reader who lives in Taiwan. I'm running this challenge to meet new people and encourage them — while getting a little accountability myself.

Let's do this. 🥢