Chinese foods renamed

[KeithTalent]

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BEIJING (Reuters) - It's official. Hungry foreign hordes craving a fix of diced chicken fried with chili and peanuts during the Beijing Olympics will be able to shout "kung pao chicken!" and have some hope of getting just that.

As it readies for an influx of visitors for the August Games, the Chinese capital has offered restaurants an official English translation of local dishes whose exotic names and alarming translations can leave foreign visitors frustrated and famished.

If officials have their way, local newspapers reported on Wednesday, English-speaking visitors will be able to order "beef and ox tripe in chili sauce," an appetizer, rather than "husband and wife's lung slice."

Other favorites have also received a linguistic makeover.

"Bean curd made by a pock-marked woman," as the Beijing Youth Daily rendered the spicy Sichuanese dish, is now "Mapo tofu." And "chicken without sexual life" becomes mere "steamed pullet."

I don't know, I kind of like the idea of ordering 'chicken without sexual life', it's almost like I'm putting the poor thing out of its misery.

KT

 

[RagingBITCH]

Fwied wice is universal.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Are they still selling the chickens that are bulked up on steroids? I remember seeing a chicken breast from one of those chickens and the breast alone would feed a family of 4.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Fwied wice is universal.

That's Flied Lice you plick!!

 

[PokerGuy]

I think I'd bring my own food for fear of how my requests would get translated.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Are they still selling the chickens that are bulked up on steroids? I remember seeing a chicken breast from one of those chickens and the breast alone would feed a family of 4.

That would be from America. I was at Hooters in Phoenix (whilst Bush's motorcade was driving by)
and ordered chichen breast. Food came and I asked the waitress if I got turkey breast instead of chicken breast. She said it was chicken. I took a bite and it had that distinct doped up chicken taste. yuck.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Fwied wice is universal.

Are you Chinese or Elmer Fudd?

Grr... I'ma gonna get that wascawwy chicken without sexual wife...

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Fwied wice is universal.

Are you Chinese or Elmer Fudd?

Grr... I'ma gonna get that wascawwy chicken without sexual wife...

Lol, just picturing a Chinese Elmer Fudd. Win.

KT

 

[hiromizu]

Originally posted by: PokerGuy
I think I'd bring my own food for fear of how my requests would get translated.

I read somewhere that food cannot be brought in and that you must eat what they serve at the venue.

 

[Squisher]

I would think the pimple farming eunuchs of AT could relate more to anything without a sexual life or being pock-marked.