Learn a dialogue in Cantonese and Mandarin:

A: Let’s go out to eat.

B: No way--you forget I have celiac disease? It's a pain eating out.

A: What's the big deal? Just tell the kitchen you can't eat gluten.

B: Even if I say I can't eat gluten, who knows what the kitchen cooks up that may make me sick as a dog later on.

Bonus Chinese idiom: burning zithers and cooking cranes (antibiotics, much?)

©2019 Emeline Mann Sanchez

The soundtrack is “Harlem Incident,” by The Passion HiFi, whose tracks can be found at Music By The Passion HiFi at: www.thepassionhifi.com