Four Treasure Frog

Although the english-language descriptions of the menu selections at our favorite Chinese restaurant (that would be Grace's Fortune, in gracious downtown Bowie, Maryland, USA) are generally idomatic and non-poetic in the way that some creatively translated menus can be, it does have it's moments. Our favorite describes a unique and delicious dish called "Tibetan Lamb", described as lamb with "killer pecans in a saviour mustard sauce." The implication is that it tastes "heavenly", one presumes.

Anyway, all of this is by way of noting a web page*, "May I Take Your Order", that offers up an all-you-can-eat buffet of poetically described dishes from oriental menus. What the food might actually taste like is anybody's guess.

I think I'll have the "Cowboy Leg" with the "Rurality Salad", please, with "Salty Egg Vegetable Sponge Liver Pig Soup" to start. To drink? "Ginger Bumping Milk (hot)" — that is a drink, isn't it?

P.S. I can say from experience: do not attempt to read this page while drinking a carbonated beverage.

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*I thank S.W. Anderson for bringing it to my attention.

Posted on March 20, 2006 at 17.13 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Food Stuff, Laughing Matters

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