China rewrites English menus

The Chinese government has released a list of 2,753 food and beverage items to standardize English menu translations and to curb strange menu items, that would only cause confusion to foreigners visiting China for the Olympics.

Some of more stranger items include “virgin chicken” (a young chicken dish) and “burnt lion’s head” (Chinese-style pork meatballs). Chinese have long eaten almost specie of animal and plant. No matter how hard the government tries to improves its image to overseas visitors you just can’t make delicacies like dog, chicken feet or snake sound anymore appealing.

Read more: No more ‘virgin chicken’ or ‘burnt lion’s head’: Beijing improves menu names for Olympics

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Posted by Mike 11 years ago

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