Lost In Translation III - Fuji Japanese Restaurant

my gosh, you make me laugh when I'm eating!! Almost choke on my food reading those!

heather: Glad I made your day!

hahahaha! talk about literal translation!!

ris: Vomit blood right? Piangz.

piang oi! i almost fall from my chair.

It is soooooooooo funny!

Jaw dropping indeed! BOMB PIGS?!!! HAHAHAHA!!!

Hahahaha! I also think the bomb pigs damn funny.

Hahaha... seriously laugh my head off this! Omfg! How about a BOMB EGG? I will never sit still or even able to order my meal if I'm there!

wah raoz!!! Make me laugh out.. later my colleagues think I crazy... :P But in cheena, this always seems to happen....

Wahahaha! I want to look through all their menu!

Eh. They really cannot make it leh. Want literal translation hor, also must be correct ma.

Eight ClawS Fish ma.

hahahhaha..

Haha.. so what did you ate?

This is so hilarous!!! I think they just use microsoft word to translate word by word.

Maybe you should start doing part time F&B consultancy just to do their menu planning and translation for them. Otherwise you can subcontract out to me!

*spellbound slapped her right palm against her forehead*

last time I was in beijing, i saw this sign that says in chinese to 'keep off the grass' and the english translation is hanyu pinyin.

Looks like they used BabelFish to translate.

Have a gander at the Lost in Translation web site: http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/

Sunflower & Anna: That's Ch1na for ya!

Jomel, Jaslyn & ZheBin: Just when we were just joking about Fried Eggs in English become translated to Bomb Eggs in Ch1nese. Here we have a real life example right in front of you. Talk about getting egg in your face!

Eddy: Nothing much on the rest of the menu, I only took those outrageously translated ones.

OLLie: Perhaps I should teach them the concept of back translation i.e. when you translate something from language A to language B, you need to translate it back from B to A in order to ensure that the translation is done correctly.

Jaschocolate: Well, I did ordered the 8-claw fish to eat definitely. Yum!

Spellbound: Does Microsoft Word have translation function?

Akk: Did you managed to take a picture of that?

Stan M: Welcome to the blog. I doubt if it's the work of Babelfish. Babelfish is something more familiar to the rest of us english-speaking websurfers.

I don't know if Vanna saw this but,

"The pan is burnt dark winter one".

She's on the meunu leh HAHAHA!

And hor which part of then sentence tells anything about 乌冬面?? SO funny! Maciam they are introducing the burnt pan.

The "Lost in Translation" web site is a project someone set up using Babelfish. It's an applet that puts whatever you've input in English through a number of translations using Babelfish, jumping from one language to another (I think it's ten iterations), and then back to English. That site is as addictive as the Internet Anagram Server.

My favorite among weird translations is apocryphal, said to have been seen somewhere in Indonesia: "All water served in this hotel has been personally passed by the manager."

These kinds of malapropisms find their way on to restaurant menus even when there is no need to translate between languages. One that I see frequently is "Maryland half fried chicken."

i nearly peng when i see the menu. this type of translation is VERY extreme leh.

and i was hoping no one realise my nick.

zhebin, u just had to mention it lor. thanks hor. hahaha

ZheBin & Winter: Don't about you guys but somehow "Burnt Dark Winter" reminds me of the time Vanna face black black.

"Hong tao tao, tow kay ah been chao chao..."

Stan M: Thanks for the link to that interesting website. Lotsa fun there!

when vanna face black black huh?

u got see before meh?? lol

Winter: Vanna face black black? DON'T HAVE!! WHERE GOT?? WHO SAY ONE?? NEVER!!!

*scared*

I thought that was hilarious. I posted it on my blog and left a trackback. ;)

Don't know if you recieved it.

Mr Dew: Welcome to the blog! Got your trackback request and approved it already. :)

I left a comment on your side but you being on WordPress means that my comments most likely end up in your spam bin. Will need you to go fish it out.

Gosh, you're right! You sure know WordPress well. I'm disappointed that my legitimate comments gets into the spam bin! WordPress' being mean here but deactivating that feature is terrible as I'll have a hard time moderating it. I hope those problems would be ironed out soon.

Thanks for commenting!

Mr Dew: I kena a lot of times from your fellow wordpress users liao.

Sometimes until I give up commenting on wordpress blogs. damn pek chek one.

aiyoyo, that bomb makes my stomach tickle,fried to bomb...i won't eat it(definitely)if it's really a bomb equal to 炸弹...

Aiyoyo,that "bomb pig" hor,make my stomach tickle,and "eat definitly" extra tickle! For "eat definitly":force people?to eat? For "bomb pig": eat bomb pig?the pig is actually a bomb...

Ahla: Welcome to the blog. Glad you enjoy this entry. :)

LOL.if you are gonna ask me what i ate,i ate NOTHING.

how 'bout 炸蛋？

AhLa: Awww... where's your sense of adventure?

Lol. The pan is dark winter one,Broken English lol ! And When There is a dark winter? The Pan is dark winter,when do dark pans drop during winter?? and thers not even "one" Dark pan dropping down during winter...

AhLa: I believe it's season. May they switch to light pans in the summer?