Published by Swiss James on 13 Nov 2008 at 01:00 pm
Restaurant menu chinglish
In the Yu Gardens- Shanghai’s #1 tourist spot there is a restaurant sign that says:
“Dumpling stuffed with the ovary and digestive glands of a crad”
It’s been photographed more times than Paris Hilton’s knickers because -hey- Everybody Loves Chinglish!
I’m not so easily impressed though (”Crad“? that’s tourist stuff).
If you want the real hardcore chinglish, the next level shizzle that’ll make your eyes sizzizzle, you need to go to a Hong Kong restaurant that opened recently near the Bund.
Several dyadic bitterns
The Chinglish in this place is so thick with meaty goodness that they should sell the menu as a souvenir at the door, along with t-shirts that say:
Why have Hamburger when you can have the Dyadic Bittern of a Tide Goose Movie?
I was grabbing a bite there on my way to watch “Quantum of Solace” (007/10- keep the fighting, but more Bondliness next time please) and nearly missed the start of the film because I was taking so many photos of the names of dishes.
Pigeon English
I’m going to get the address off Emma in fact, because the food was actually really good.
In fact maybe the people behind this place are a whole level smarter than we imagine and the funny dish names are, in fact, a clever marketing ploy! Oooh psych.
Chinglish crablish
Click below for my absolute favourite anyway- I don’t know how they come up with this stuff, I really don’t.
Hahah! Those are called "chips" you idiots!!!
Brilliant – I want to go next time I come to Shanghai, not to eat, just to laugh at the menu!!
Check out your little middle easty flag Wiggy!
Fries, LOL, classic. May I suggest you bring a big black marker next time and cross out fries and write the correct translation to stop further mutilation of the English language.
The pond-sauteed crab didn’t stay that far away from trouble seeing as he’s about to be eaten….
I know what you mean about Bond James Bond – good film but disappointingly unBondy!
Pond crabs???????????? everyone knows they only live in lakes!!!!!!!
Or the sea…
those are fries.
“chips” are mistakenly referred to as crisps.
don’t you mean “freedom fries”?
FRENCH fries, you heathen . . .
Drama! Those Chinese chef just want to add some extra ‘Trouble’ To ‘Blow up’ life in a ‘Goose Movie’ for their audience. Can’t you see it’s all for PR purpose to attract attention?
Dingle – Pond sauteed doesn’t mean they’re pond crabs it means they were sauteed in a pond.
As for Bond, I thought that the new Bond is actually MORE closer to what Bond should be (according to Ian Fleming) and all the other movies were un-Bond. But maybe I should see the movie before drawing those types of conclusions.
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Someone stealing from you
Where Chinglish comes from
http://www.danwei.org/computing/where_chinglish_comes_from.php
Maybe that SW company runs a company called Chinglish as a sister site to Engrish.com.
WoAi- the character is very close to the books, but the other stuff that came from the first movie is really sparse.
Frodo- that’s weird, I wonder why he did that?
T- if you post that link one more time, I’m going to send hired goons round to your house to ring your doorbell then run away. It takes all the fun out of chinglish!
Swiss James – if those goons bring by some take-out food, and they’re cheaper than sherpas, I will continue to post the link as I well please.
they are called french fries :)