AI image models are great at mood boards and bad at exact lettering. If you are designing a bilingual restaurant menu or a packaging label, treat the words as a separate layer from the art.
Lock the copy first
Write every dish name, price, allergen line, and brand claim in a plain note. Paste those strings into your workflow instead of asking the model to invent them. Fewer free-form phrases means fewer hallucinated glyphs.
Generate art, place text
Create the background, food photography, and ornaments first. Then place the real English and Chinese strings with a layout step that supports accurate glyphs and movable boxes. Tools such as MOSS-Image AI are built for that split: readable bilingual text plus drag-to-place boxes for titles, prices, and labels.
Prefer quiet panels behind type
Ask for a clean chalkboard block, cream label, or packaging white space. Busy textures behind small Chinese characters are where strokes smear.
Line-by-line bilingual QA
Check each Chinese/English pair against your source list. Models swap similar characters and drop strokes. A thirty-second human pass beats reprinting a wrong allergen line.
Export for print, not only social
Zoom the PDF to 100% at real size. Social crops hide kerning issues that show up on paper.
Use AI for exploration and speed; keep the final words under your control. That is what makes menus and labels look professional instead of almost-right.
