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Someone forwarded me this image, and I'm trying to find out more about the source. My sense is that it's real, not a gag or Photoshopped. But how did the characters for "gan gou" end up as the "F" word?

xxxmenu.jpg

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干 can mean just that, colloquially, so it's not impossible. There was a similar example in the Chinglish thread under Chat and Language Exchange.

Posted

This is hilarious. My favourite is:

兔子干锅

My money is on machine translation. Even an incompetent translator would presumably know *that* word. Strange that the machine selectively drops 锅 from the translations where it acts as the modified noun, but accepts it as object. Looks like its trying to cram everything into a SVO framework and coughing up blood otherwise.

Posted

It can also mean dry (thanks to simplified).

Sauteed maybe?

干烧 is what the restaurants use around here.

Posted

I have lingering doubts about the translation of "tong zi ji" as "spring chicken" as usually Chinese dictionaries use the word "young" instead.

However it would be difficult to forge the entire menu without comprehensive knowledge of Chinese and pinyin, so I suppose it is genuine.

I would be among the first customers to go there just to steal a menu but I believe this is most likely a first printing that was changed before the real menus reached the restaurant.

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