One cowboy leg, waiter, one...
While surfing on this very active Chinese message board, i stumbled upon a collection of Chinese dishes and their English, erm, well, "translations". Some of them are quite funny, others rather kinky.
Reminds me in one or another way of a website i once found (and lost) about Chinese characters tattoes, which were rather hilarious.
Have fun.
Frank
Color hot fries the chicken (and other Chinese meals)
Too funny!
I didn't know that cows reacted so strongly to a fragrant spring onion sauce. It's nice that the bone in garlic is fragrant, but the strange flavor is a bit worrysome. I could go on; but I have fresh bulb lilycerlery west fruit in my eyes.
Gadzooks!
I didn't know that cows reacted so strongly to a fragrant spring onion sauce. It's nice that the bone in garlic is fragrant, but the strange flavor is a bit worrysome. I could go on; but I have fresh bulb lilycerlery west fruit in my eyes.
Gadzooks!
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Lately it hasn't been working."
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Re: Color hot fries the chicken (and other Chinese meals)
BTW, before you laugh too much at the menu, consider the multimega worldwide known US company that proudly statedReminds me in one or another way of a website i once found (and lost) about Chinese characters tattoes, which were rather hilarious.
ETA: THe one I'm looking for might be hidden somewhere at http://www.engrish.comWhere available, you can get 24 hour service
Irren ist männlich
My work group orders Chinese takeout on paydays, so I forwarded the link on to them over my lunch hour. For the rest of the afternoon I heard muffled snorts, giggles and stage-whispered possibilities from all over the room. Our favorites seem to be from...further down the list than those referenced above.
My list of hilariously-named British food now takes second place to this menu. Thanks for the link, Frank.
-gailr
My list of hilariously-named British food now takes second place to this menu. Thanks for the link, Frank.
-gailr
Re: Color hot pepper fries the chicken
Great!!!!!Try this site [now defunct] while I look for the one I have in mind.
While surfing that site, i came across the crazy-diarrhea story. I start to see a connection with the menu site...
[i'm so sorry, this is so low... but i couldn't resist it].
I once came across that one... it's still superb (btw, today they serve "lettuce in pain").ETA: THe one I'm looking for might be hidden somewhere at http://www.engrish.com
Frank
PS: I shouldn't laugh with this too much. Once managed to say to a woman in Portugal, who was showing me around in her house, that she had a very nice /kuzinju/ (bum, little ass) instead of a nice /kuzinha/ (kitchen)...
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Frank, this is the hilariousest reading since Louis d'Antin van Rooten's "Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames". As the saying goes, I laughed until I stopped, albeit with many tears. Somehow "burn the spring chicken" makes me think of GWB's "Make the pie higher!" quote...
Not only much verbage but quite a bit of violence:
Fresh bulb lilycelery west fruit in eyes
Fragrant spring onion sauce explodes cow, son (this is 'way beyond cow-tipping).
Perhaps its tenor can be traced to drinks like Coca-coca (but withal Sankist -what's that, a decaf advocate?)
Best interline comment: do I order this or agree with it?
Not only much verbage but quite a bit of violence:
Fresh bulb lilycelery west fruit in eyes
Fragrant spring onion sauce explodes cow, son (this is 'way beyond cow-tipping).
Perhaps its tenor can be traced to drinks like Coca-coca (but withal Sankist -what's that, a decaf advocate?)
Best interline comment: do I order this or agree with it?
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots! Knife no one, fink!
Frank, mijn moeder ging onlangs naar een Chinees restaurant in de buurt en bij het binnenkomen werd haar gevraagd: "Met look of zonder look?" Dit zorgde begrijpelijkerwijs voor enige consternatie, tot bleek dat het ging om "rokers of niet-rokers".
Spaceman Spiff
"The capacity for humankind to centralize its importance in the grand scheme of things is quite impressive."
- Tim Ward
"The capacity for humankind to centralize its importance in the grand scheme of things is quite impressive."
- Tim Ward
I'm afraid the joke will be somewhat lost in translation.
My mother went to a Chinese restaurant lately and in stead of "smoker or non-smoker" ("rook"= smoke), the lady from the restaurant asked "with or without garlic" ("look"= garlic).
My mother went to a Chinese restaurant lately and in stead of "smoker or non-smoker" ("rook"= smoke), the lady from the restaurant asked "with or without garlic" ("look"= garlic).
Spaceman Spiff
"The capacity for humankind to centralize its importance in the grand scheme of things is quite impressive."
- Tim Ward
"The capacity for humankind to centralize its importance in the grand scheme of things is quite impressive."
- Tim Ward
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