'Virgin chicken' and 'Steamed Crap' off the menu in Beijing

[LynneSin]

'Virgin chicken' off the menu in Beijing Fri Aug 31, 2:58 AM ET



BEIJING - Hungry visitors to next summer's Beijing Olympics won't have to choose between "steamed crap" and "virgin chicken" if Chinese authorities succeed in ridding restaurant menus of mangled English translations.

The Beijing Tourism Bureau has released a list with 2,753 proposed names for dishes and drinks, designed to replace bizarre and sometimes ridiculous translations on menus, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.

Foreigners are often stumped by dish names such as "virgin chicken" (a young chicken dish) or "burnt lion's head" (Chinese-style pork meatballs). Other garbled names include "The temple explodes the chicken cube" (kung pao chicken) or "steamed crap" (steamed carp).

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Damn.

I can never find good temple explodes the chicken cube when I want it.

[madinmaryland]

2. Steamed Crap?? Is that something from New Jersey?

:hide:

[LostinVA]

4. Hey, we're supposed to be picking on Delaware here

[madinmaryland]

5. Delaware isn't big enough to have any!

[LostinVA]

6. Sad, but true

[LynneSin]

9. Seriously - you 2 need serious professional help

Picking on the lil state - you're just jealous because Delaware was first

[SOteric]

8. Anyone have a recipe?

I wanted to send it along to the next Republican Fundraiser Potluck.

[SoxFan]

10. Call the Olive Garden.

[Callalily]

3. I'm glad that they're

going to leave dope free pork on the menu.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d20c311a-4378-11dc-a065-0000779fd2ac.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6052800.stm

[KamaAina]

7. It happens in Spanish, too

the Chinese place down the block when I lived in upper Manhattan made a plucky attempt to translate its menu into Spanish.

The result: "Moo Goo Gai Cacerola"! :rofl: