u/Casparhe

I'm from China. I've been in NYC & Boston for 12 yrs and still struggle with food names sometimes: having no idea what the food actually looks like by jsut staring at the name.

I don't mean how to pronounce it. Like can you actually picture what you're getting from a French, Spanish, Indian, Arabic... menu, or do you just know because you've had it before or just google it?

Native English speakers, does this happen to you too? I keep wondering if it's my English or I just don't know enough about food.

things like: Chicken Saltimbocca, Malai Kofta, Larb, Baba Ghannouj, Enchiladas Verdes, Katsudon...