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Thursday, June 26, 2008

And in China: Pockmarked Women and Sliced Lungs Must Go...

There’s no time to lose for Beijing restaurateurs to get English translations of Chinese dishes before the Olympics open. The city’s tourism officials have told food vendors to find acceptable English for the Chinese names, often based on stories, such as ‘bean curd by a pockmarked woman’ and... Sign in to see full entry.

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