About the Chinese / Mandarin Gluten Free Restaurant Card

This Chinese mandarin gluten free card was sent in by a visitor to Celiac Travel.com

When work sent Meredith Johnson to Hong Kong, she had an old college roommate (who happened to be from Taiwan) write up a chinese restaurant card.

It explains that we can't eat wheat, etc, and specifically mentions soy sauce, wheat noodles, MSG, and fried foods. It also says (I think) that I have GF soy sauce with me that they can use to cook my food with. She's not so good at translating, so I can't say exactly what it says, but she understands my condition very well, since we lived and cooked together for 3 years.

She must have put something scary in there, because whenever people read it, they tended to be quite conservative in what people tried to feed me. 8 days later, and no reaction, I trust it. I think it saved my life - or at least my sanity. I had my coworkers read it, and they picked places to eat that would work and during my weekend on my own, I was able to walk into a restaurant, hand over the card, and eat what they put in front of me. Looking back, it may be a blessing that I didn't have to know what I was eating half the time.