Happy Trip For You
A book of CHINGLISH came across my desk this week – Chinese signs and dishes fumbled in translation. Prime spotter and editor is Oliver Lutz Radtke, his team of snappers gathering such gems as Keep Your Legs, (appearing on an escalator) and Man and Wife Lung Slice (an eerie menu).
Here’s another small Chinglish chunk to savour:
On a menu: Black Pepper Cowboy Bone - or Deep Fried Sesame Children Stick
Show Mercy To The Slender Grass
Wash After Relief
Deformed Man Toilet
The Thing Tube Office
Cash Recycling Machine
Fixed Expectations District
Please Love Your Life
[The book is CHINGLISH by Oliver Lutz Radtke, published by Gibbs Smith, 2007] Any more clangers you’ve seen on the road? Fire a few in.