Lost in Translation
08.11.2012 - 15.11.2012
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We are dining out in Shanghai tonight at a restaurant that relied on Google to translate the menu, but we are a bit stumped with some of the dishes and would value your help before we order. For instance: What about this?
And what about the following:
Or any of the following delicious sounding morsels:-
Brown sweet old duck soup pointed flat
Shrimp seed and the big
Brine door cavity
And here's some more...
And there are also its cousins:-
Sweet halogen bad duck tongue
Fragrance crab clamp
JinNiang bad yellow corvinci
Five fang lent the drunken chicken
Three wire spring rolls
We couldn't make this out at all...
Or these:-
Sweet canceled the black bears shrimp goo
Bacon evaporate hairy crabs
And what on earth is...
..or:
Dry heating daming shrimp
Born fried irrigation with described it
Three fresh stewed leg muscles
Bad fish slipped
Hot boil in water for a while cows shutter
Palace with blasting
It looks like we will have to stick with the - Food bravery riches and honour bag with fried rice again!
P.S. Joking aside - we found all the above, and more, on one menu. Luckily for us there were pictures.
Oh you can sure get me laughing in the early morning.As for the picture it looks like a poor little black bird (feathers on) with a broken wing and a very big foot - only one. the orange thing could be a giant tomato and the whitish stuff beside it could be old bread crumbs.
those other translations are hilarious.
Reading The Cats Table certainly one of the best of Michael Ondaatje. he is so poetic. I will look for some of his poetry books...Jean
by Jean