We ‘re adding a special expansion card to Takeout as an SDCC exclusive. (I can’t believe that’s an actual sentence I just typed.) I’ve been considering adding either Taiwanese pineapple cake or Xian pulled noodles, both really stylish, specific foods that will make attractive cards. Also, my students talked about those foods recently and made me hungry.
I couldn’t remember the Chinese names for either one, and in my search I learned that 菠萝, pineapple, is not part of the Chinese name for pineapple cakes, because that would be too easy. Perfect! A pretty food with a complicated name!
Then I saw that Xian noodles can actually be called 
… which I just had to copy-and-paste because it’s too complex for my computer’s dictionary. Chinese teachers punish students by making them write biang. There’s even a legend about the invention of biang, which kind of makes the complexity a restaurant joke, and therefore a perfect addition to Takeout.
Now I really want to add the hardest, most complex Chinese character to my game about being bad at Chinese.
