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Saturday, July 02, 2005

Chinese restaurant menu

Just came back from dinner with my housemate at Shanghai Noodle House (yes, that run-down, crappy place). Food was all right (quantity over quality, I know of a person who would love that...). Apart from filling our stomach, eating there also provided us with some real entertainment when we looked at the menu and discovered some funny stuffs inside. Take a look at the following:

1) Red Bean Steamed cake ---> $4.50
2) Steamed Red bean cake ---> $4.00

WTF?? Can anybody tell what's the real difference between those two??

3) Soy sauce saturated beef ---> $7.00

Hmm... I wonder how they make the beef saturated... Derrick came up with the suggestion that they could have drowned the whole cow in soy sauce before chopping it up, hence making it saturated..

Seems like they're pretty good at making combinations of different stuffs using just 2 basic ingredients. We came up with some suggestions below (using cake & red bean):

1) Cake with steamed red bean
2) Red bean with steamed cake (They actually sell this one there,as pointed out)
3) Steamed bean with red cake(??)
4) Steamed red with bean cake (?????)

Additional ideas (From Sarah, UK):

PLEASE DO NOT BRING SOLICITORS INTO YOUR ROOM - hotel room notice in Chiang Mai

YOU ARE INVITED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CHAMBERMAID - hotel, Japan

SALAD A FIRM'S OWN MAKE; LIMPID RED BEET SOUP WITH CHEESY DUMPLINGS IN THE FORM OF A FINGER; ROASTED DUCK LET LOOSE; BEEF RASHERS BEATEN UP IN THE COUNTRY PEOPLE'S FASHION - taken from a menu is Poland

SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES - doctors office, Rome

SPECIAL TODAY - NO ICE CREAM - in a Swiss mountain inn

All right. Better stop here. Getting pretty ridiculous. Oh yeah, it would have helped if we could read chinese characters, but given that our knowledge of it is so basic, we couldn't figure out any of the dishes there with their funny english translation :)

P.S: Comments & thoughts are most welcome!!

1 Comments:

  • At 6:59 PM, Blogger leonhart said…

    Thanks for the comment guys. I'm not sure how come the 1st one is deleted though coz I certainly didn't do anything to it....

     

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