Chinese possibly follow a direction (8)
I believe the answer is:
takeaway
'chinese' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'follow a direction' is the wordplay.
'follow' becomes 'take' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'direction' becomes 'way' (synonyms).
'take'+'a'+'way'='TAKEAWAY'
'possibly' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for takeaway that I've seen before include "Food to go" , "may be Chinese" , "Restaurant" , "Cafe selling food to be eaten elsewhere" , "Type of meal" .)