{"id":43,"date":"2006-03-14T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog2\/?p=43"},"modified":"2006-03-14T18:00:17","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T02:00:17","slug":"good-to-eat-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/good-to-eat-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Good to Eat Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rahoi.com\/2006\/03\/may-i-take-your-order.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rahoi.com\/images\/blog\/menu\/bargainitem.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good lord of bad translations!  I haven&#8217;t laughed this hard since I don&#8217;t know when.  I&#8217;ve always been a huge fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/uw\/mystran\">good language turned bad<\/a>, no matter what the source.  I once ate at a restaurant in Brazil that offered &#8220;Homelike Candies&#8221;, &#8220;Soaked Gold in Pieces&#8221;, &#8220;Half Kilo of Meat of Male Goat Roasted in the Ember&#8221;, and my all-time favorite, &#8220;Meat Fudge&#8221;.  That same trip, I made my first and most glorious mistake in Portuguese when I asked the coconut-seller for &#8220;three shit waters, please&#8221;.  Much eye-rolling ensued.  But no two languages are more awkwardly matched than English and Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>I dare you to <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rahoi.com\/2006\/03\/may-i-take-your-order.php\">read the whole menu<\/a> and see if you can finish it without weeping real tears.<\/p>\n<p>If that doesn&#8217;t do it, <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/engrish\/164141.html\">this one<\/a> may send you over the top.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/dado.org\/\">Dado<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good lord of bad translations! I haven&#8217;t laughed this hard since I don&#8217;t know when. I&#8217;ve always been a huge fan of good language turned bad, no matter what the source. I once ate at a restaurant in Brazil that offered &#8220;Homelike Candies&#8221;, &#8220;Soaked Gold in Pieces&#8221;, &#8220;Half Kilo of Meat of Male Goat Roasted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/good-to-eat-mountain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good to Eat Mountain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}