I stole both the idea for the title of this post and these pictures from our friend Candy. Candy is from Hong Kong and currently lives in Washington D.C. Candy married a high school friend of mine, Lee. Not sure how he got such a pretty wife, but good for him.

Most American’s living in China keep a collection of translation photos. Chinese is a colorful language and one of the first things my tutors explained is that you just can’t translate words directly from English to Chinese and expect it to make sense. Our photo collections also demonstrate that the inverse is also true – you can’t translate words directly from Chinese to English and expect sentences to make sense.

In Chinese, there are many more examples of phrases (especially food) that are non-descriptive but that everyone in China understands. An English example is tiramisu. Unlike a ’64-ounce Steak for Two’, the word tiramisu doesn’t suggest anything about a:

light dessert of sponge cake or ladyfingers dipped in a coffee-liqueur mixture, then layered with mascarpone and grated chocolate.

These photos and the collection posted here are purportedly from a restaurant menu in Shenzhen, which is near Hong Kong in southern China. Having seen many manus posted on restaurant storefronts, those of us in China believe these photographs to be authentic.

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Fuck to Fry the Cow River

The Chicken Hates the Soup

Butter Many Privates

Elder Brother the Ground is Second

I have been saving our photos in hopes of someday taking the time to create a ‘Lost in Translation’ collection. However, these were just too good to pass up posting immediately.

Frog gruel for two, anyone?