Waygo app

It's like magic: Point your smartphone camera at the characters on a Chinese menu, and Waygo uses optical character recognition to overlay an English translation on the screen, unlocking a universe of dishes. It's terrific for culinary explorers whose taste for char siu bao outstrips their fluency in Mandarin or Cantonese.

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Waygo app

By SAVEUR Editors


Published on February 21, 2014

It's like magic: Point your smartphone camera at the characters on a Chinese menu, and Waygo uses optical character recognition to overlay an English translation on the screen, unlocking a universe of dishes. It's terrific for culinary explorers whose taste for char siu bao outstrips their fluency in Mandarin or Cantonese.

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