Menus that amuse me

I know that bad English translations are nothing new in Chinese menus. While the concept is not new, these three dishes seemed pretty original to me.

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I’ve seen some Chinese rivers, and I’m pretty confident I want never to eat sausage that tastes like one of them.

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I knew that Jew’s ear was too specific to be just a bad translation.  Turns out that it’s a common name for a fungus.  The Chinese characters describe it as tree ear.

While we avoided these particular dishes, everything we ate was delicious.

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