Thursday, December 6, 2012

Lost in Translation - The Menu

One of my favorite pastimes for the past three weeks has been to thoroughly scour the menus of all of the restaurants we have visited.  This is not only because of my curiosity, it is also because we have found some AMAZINGLY funny things printed, due to difficulty of translating Chinese into English.  

I should also share that the menus are printed right-to-left.  So drinks, rice, soup, is at the "end" of the menu.  It took me at least a week to figure this out.  

I'm not really sure how much editing (if any) some of these menus or documents have received before going to print, but I will list you some incredibly funny ones below:

Rice Balls with Glue
Students Addicted to Intestinal Health
Students Addicted to Tree Frogs 
Legend of the Burning of Hakka 
Fishing fans to burn dry sausages
Fatty Beef Balls 

But my favorite is attached as a picture.  

  


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Kristin Ditlow
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