Burn the spring chicken!
As a former English teacher in Taiwan, this made me howl: May I take your order?
It's even funnier if you read Chinese - which I used to be able to do pretty well but only have a squinting familiarity with these days. Use it or lose it, clearly.
This menu is like someone (and I don't doubt it) ran the individual words through an online translator, had the eldest son of the family - the one they sent to school in the US for a year - edit it, then scanned the written words with a character recognition program.
And then had some drunk Americans come in and have a free meal while they "corrected" it. Don't ask me why I know the last scenario.
It's even funnier if you read Chinese - which I used to be able to do pretty well but only have a squinting familiarity with these days. Use it or lose it, clearly.
This menu is like someone (and I don't doubt it) ran the individual words through an online translator, had the eldest son of the family - the one they sent to school in the US for a year - edit it, then scanned the written words with a character recognition program.
And then had some drunk Americans come in and have a free meal while they "corrected" it. Don't ask me why I know the last scenario.
Ah, a friend and I laughed ourselves to tears over this the other day and agreed we wanted some "cowboy leg".
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I laughed so hard! You have to read the whole thing to get the full effect. The only thing I could possibly eat from this menu would be the Coke (Coca Coca). I definitely don't want the "Man fruit braise the north almond" or anything else.
ReplyDeleteI was sitting by my computer, mute, with tears running down my face. The girls came to share it with me and we all ended up a heap on the floor, catatonic with laughter.
ReplyDeleteThe best medecine in ages.