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**Spread** · **Spread** More Washboard User ID: 92030 04-23-2012 08:47 AM **Posts: 11,698**

BEIJING –Overseas tourists often find the menus here befuddling, for good reason.

After all, what Westerner has experience with foods like these?“Cowboy leg,” “Hand-shredded ass meat,” “Red-burned lion head,” “Strange flavor noodles,” “Blow-up flatfish with no result,” or “Tofu made by woman with freckles.”

As proud as the Chinese people are of their thousands of years of gastronomic culture, even a Chinese native can feel disoriented when going to another province, given all the different styles of cooking. Many of the food names, often unique to different provinces, get lost in translation, especially in booming cities starting to embrace overseas tourists.

With few English speakers, restaurants usually translate their menus word by word directly from an English-Chinese dictionary. Or they just Google the Chinese characters. A photo that made the rounds online a few years ago got a chuckle from a lot of people: a restaurant with a large “page not found” sign above its door as its English name.

But the Beijing Municipal government hopes to end such unintended jokes with its new guidebook intended for the public and restaurants alike, “Enjoy Culinary Delights: The English Translation of Chinese Menus.”

The effort began in 2006 with a “Beijing speaks English” campaign. By the 2008 Summer Olympics, officials had created a draft guide with translations for major restaurants to meet the demand for arriving athletes and tourists.

“After 2008, we felt like the book was in a good demand, so we kept working on it and collected more menus. Finally we translated over 2,000 Chinese dish names,” said Xiang Ping, deputy chief of the “Beijing speaks English” committee, in an interview with NBC News.

http://behindthewall.msnbc.msn.com/_news...l-you?lite

**David** · **David** regulate this! User ID: 89685 04-23-2012 08:50 AM **Posts: 31,302**

Good God, I don't really wnat to know.

Scream1

I had some good Chow Ma Mein the other night.

Lord, I hope there was no shredded ass meat in it.

I miss my wife's spring rolls and chop suey.

All they had were egg rolls dammit.

I'll bet you could hide some ass meat in them...

or vice versa.

**Spread** · **Spread** More Washboard User ID: 92030 04-23-2012 08:54 AM **Posts: 11,698**

David Wrote:

Good God, I don't really wnat to know.

I had some good Chow Ma Mein the other night.

Lord, I hope there was no shredded ass meat in it.

I miss my wife's spring rolls and chop suey.

All they had were egg rolls dammit.

I'll bet you could hide some ass meat in them...

or vice versa.

I never knew they ate donkey in China Scream1

**David** · **David** regulate this! User ID: 89685 04-23-2012 08:55 AM **Posts: 31,302**

Spread Wrote:

David Wrote:
Good God, I don't really wnat to know.

I had some good Chow Ma Mein the other night.

Lord, I hope there was no shredded ass meat in it.

I miss my wife's spring rolls and chop suey.

All they had were egg rolls dammit.

I'll bet you could hide some ass meat in them...

or vice versa.
I never knew they ate donkey in China

North Korea, too.

Not in SK as far as I know.

**Shakey1** · (This post was last modified: 04-23-2012 09:12 AM by Shakey1.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avkFUBzHSw8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE
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"Governors of three states got up close with “pink slime” Thursday, touching and examining treated beef at a plant and eating hamburgers made with it in a bid to persuade grossed-out consumers and grocery stores the product is safe to consume…

“If you called it finely textured lean beef, would we be here?” asked Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback. Several other leaders echoed his comments as they tried to smooth over consumer concerns about the product..."

http://eideard.com/2012/03/31/republican...ink-slime/

**Hako** lop guest User ID: 91167 04-23-2012 09:13 AM

Personally, I like faux human-ass burgers. Mostly mushrooms, but taste just like the real thing.

**Vegas**

Sounds like a question for Assbeef..

Cheer

**David** · **David** regulate this! User ID: 89685 04-23-2012 09:22 AM **Posts: 31,302**

Hako Wrote:

Personally, I like faux human-ass burgers. Mostly mushrooms, but taste just like the real thing.

Like real human or like real ass?

**Vegas**

Vegas Wrote:

Sounds like a question for Assbeef..

Quote:assbeef

The inner meat of the anus.
the other white meat-or not.

**Shakey1** · **Shakey1** Subscriber User ID: 78542 04-23-2012 09:26 AM **Posts: 11,979**

Vegas Wrote:

Sounds like a question for Assbeef..

86'd

**Spread** · **Spread** More Washboard User ID: 92030 04-23-2012 09:33 AM **Posts: 11,698**

Vegas Wrote:

Vegas Wrote:
Sounds like a question for Assbeef..

Quote:assbeef

The inner meat of the anus.
the other white meat-or not.

**Zero Point** · (This post was last modified: 04-23-2012 10:26 AM by Zero Point.)

Sounds pretty good!
Mind you, you want your genuine "hand shredded" ass meat.
All too often the bastards will try to pass off ass meat from a commercial shredder.
Gotta be shredded by hand or it's just processed ass meat.

**MR2**

Zero Point Wrote:

Sounds pretty good!Mind you, you want your genuine "hand shredded" ass meat.
All too often the bastards will try to pass off ass meat from a commercial shredder.
Gotta be shredded by hand or it's just processed ass meat.

That's what you said about Caine toads! Still waiting for that BBQ to happen!

Popcorn

**Zero Point**

MR2 Wrote:

Zero Point Wrote:
Sounds pretty good!Mind you, you want your genuine "hand shredded" ass meat.
All too often the bastards will try to pass off ass meat from a commercial shredder.
Gotta be shredded by hand or it's just processed ass meat.

That's what you said about Caine toads! Still waiting for that BBQ to happen!

Dude.
I got down and had a good look at one.
Not happening, they're too f*ckin ugly to eat.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 91709 04-23-2012 11:09 AM

Zero Point Wrote:

MR2 Wrote:
Zero Point Wrote:
Sounds pretty good!Mind you, you want your genuine "hand shredded" ass meat.
All too often the bastards will try to pass off ass meat from a commercial shredder.
Gotta be shredded by hand or it's just processed ass meat.

That's what you said about Caine toads! Still waiting for that BBQ to happen!

Dude.
I got down and had a good look at one.
Not happening, they're too f*ckin ugly to eat.