The problem is there are often restaurants provide food menu with a name that is unusual, strange and sometimes terrifying. For example, anyone want to try the "Chicken without sexual life"?
This is what the food menu list gangster film?
Just imagine if you sat in a restaurant, and presented menu with a list like this in it: "Chicken without sexual life", "red burned lion head", "Daddy, I do not want to eat this", "Yummy eat mountain", "Chili colored roast chicken ". Weleh ... which one would you choose? Wait, the menus above essay is not the result we know, dozens of other examples can you see here .
Can imagine how frustrated her tourists ordering food with a menu like that? Want to ask also play of chance, because my own experience, the waiter who could speak English very rare there. Fortunately this is to invite the attention of the Chinese government to do something. Thus was launched a standard dictionary that contains a 3000 list of translations "official" from the name of the food / beverages that are often encountered in the country. This dictionary is "complete" version of the same dictionary that had also launched at the Beijing Olympics yesterday.
Work on this dictionary is not arbitrary, translatornya must travel the world to many countries speak English to find the right translation. Of this project as well, some of the food in China was named specifically in order to better introduce the Chinese culture in the world, such as dim sum (or similar) now has a name Jiaozi, and dumplings filled baozi named.
More extreme examples such as "red burned lion head" will be changed to "pork meatballs with sauce (color) brown", "Daddy, I do not want to eat it" to "jumbo chocolate ice cream," "Flower knows who made the freckle-faced woman "to" Mapo tofu. " Well may the contents of the dictionary will not be as detailed as that, but at least the menus could be more easily found common in the presence of this dictionary.
