McDonald's menu in Mandarin?

[NewUser]

I've managed to find "french fries", "lemonade" and "cola" on the talking dictionary website, but an entire McMenu in pinyin or Hanzi would be spiffy. Google yielded nothing and McD's China website doesn't work for me in Opera or IE.

BTW if anyone is wondering what I'm doing eating McJunk in China, let's just say it causes my digestive system less problems than normal restaurants in Shanghai

[liuzhou]

Don't know why I am encouraging you, but it sounds like you need to install Adobe Flash Player.

Then the MacD site will run OK in Opera or IE.

[imron]

Google is amazing

Here is the top result for 麦当劳菜单. As a bonus, that link also includes the phone numbers and locations of a bunch of shanghai stores.

English translations are left as an exercise for the reader.

[anonymoose]

巨无霸 is the chinese version of BigMac.

What I want to know is how did they translate BigMac into 巨无霸? I know 巨 can mean big, but what does 无霸 mean?

[skylee]

What I want to know is how did they translate BigMac into 巨无霸? I know 巨 can mean big, but what does 无霸 mean?

Good question. 巨毋霸 (or 巨無霸) is a term that describes giants and has existed for centuries. Take a look at this explanation -

本指王莽時的巨人。傳說其身長十丈、腰大十圍，軺車不能載，三馬不能勝，臥則枕鼓，以鐵箸食。被王莽留置新豐，改姓為「巨毋氏」。見漢書˙卷九十九˙王莽傳下。後用以比喻身軀龐大的人。儒林外史˙第五十二回：「那胡八亂子想了一想，看看鳳四老爹又不是個金剛、巨毋霸，怕他怎的？」亦作「巨無霸」。

I also like the way this webpage says "英文big mac".

[NewUser]

thanks guys, the link above led me to this one-

http://www.howtoorderchinesefood.com/pages/fast_food.htm