Starting point
A Chinese restaurant website that ships in two languages
Sixteen dishes in four courses, each one written twice — English for the street, Chinese for the regulars. The website builder starts a restaurant owner off with the second language already switched on, so the Chinese column is a field rather than a to-do. Six pages, a story gallery, six sample reviews.
Shown in the Sumi design style — one of 15 you can switch between; your business content carries over.
Why a Chinese restaurant needs two menus, not one
Most restaurant templates hand you one menu in one language and leave the second to a PDF nobody opens on a phone. This project file declares a secondary language of its own, so every dish carries a Chinese name and a Chinese description alongside the English — no other starting point in the catalogue is built that way. The menu is grouped the way a Chinese kitchen thinks: appetisers, chef’s specials, noodles and rice, soups and sides.
What the sample site comes with
Four menu sections holding sixteen priced dishes, a six-photo story gallery, six written sample reviews, two discount codes, a three-question FAQ, and six pages.
Anything on that list that takes something from a visitor or reads from a live schedule — a form, a booking, a coupon code, a subscribe box, a class timetable, a listing fed by a collection — goes online with Storefront Pro. Storefront publishes the rest of the page exactly as you built it; where this template gives one of those a page of its own, that page is the one that waits for the upgrade.
What the site covers
- Menu pages
- Hours & location
- Bilingual
- Coupons
6 pages included
- Home
- Menu
- Pickup & Delivery
- Hours & Location
- About
- Contact
What is in scope, and what stays in your own systems
The menu is yours to type. Nothing syncs from a POS or a delivery platform, and every dish name, photo and review in the sample is placeholder content you are meant to replace before you go live.
Every count and price on this page was read out of the template itself rather than written by hand, which is why the numbers match the site you actually get.
What you get when you publish it
- Your own domain, hosting and HTTPS on the published site — not a subdomain of ours.
- Card payments run through your own Stripe account. Naratake takes 0% commission on the sale; only Stripe’s own card fee applies.
- Storefront Pro downloads the whole project as a standard Next.js app, so the site can be self-hosted with Naratake switched off.
- Building and previewing is free with no card. Storefront is $49 a month or $468 a year; Storefront Pro — which is where ordering and bookings go live — is $79 a month or $758 a year. The first payment is refundable in full within 7 days.
Questions people actually ask
The menu shows every dish in English and 中文. What actually carries the second language?
The project sets English as the default locale and Chinese as the secondary, and all sixteen seeded dishes carry a name and a description in both — 小籠包 sits on the same record as Pork Soup Dumplings. Headings, buttons, the announcement bar and the scrolling marquee ship with Chinese twins too. Dishes and prices are structured content, so switching among the fifteen design styles rebuilds the layout and carries both languages across; headings you typed over go back to the template's wording, and one undo takes it all back.
The booking form stops at eight, but the sample tables include a ten-seat round table. How does a banquet get booked?
By phone, and the page says so twice — the intro line sends parties of eight or more to your number, and the FAQ card beside the form repeats it for the round table. The widget ships with its maximum party set to eight; that field accepts up to twenty, so raising it puts the round table online. The engine tests every request against the nine seeded tables — three 2-tops, three 4-tops, two 6-tops and the round table — offers times on a 30-minute grid, holds a table ninety minutes, and stops an hour before close.