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posted on 23 Dec 2006 by maki :: 0 comments

China bans mis-spelt food to make menus more English friendly

'Misspelt foods like "complicated cake", "pee soup", "five sliced things", "dumpling stuffed with the ovary and digestive glands of a crab" and, "crap [carp] in the grass"...are being banished from the city’s eating places.'

(tags: china foodpolitics language funny)

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