17 Inadvertently Meaningful Chinese Menu Misspellings: An Annotated List
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Whether these represent typos, misspellings, bad transliterations, or -- as some have suggested -- Chinese menu writers working with a badly flawed 19th-century English dictionary, all of these come from restaurants located in the five boroughs. Whatever the cause, they form a highly entertaining and cross-cultural type of meta-literature.
Sliced Couch with XO Sauce...............$21.95
But then where will they sit?
Sting Beans with Thick Noodce...........$8.99
If a bean bites, use the noodle poultice.
Crispy Colorectal..................................$14.99
The proctologist's fave.



























