Signboards in China....

I am on a personal mission.....to find and capture the true meanings of the english sighboards in China....

Somehow as most of you who have been to China know by now...english signboards in China do NOT make sense!

I have come across heaps and heaps of funny signs...

However the best one I have seen so far...

"The nice joss-sticks come juicy steak"

What is that!?!?!?! You eat joss-sticks?

I think the chinese signboard is: 好香的牛排餐店

Oh, joss-sticks are incense sticks that buddist/taoist followers use to pray to their gods, ancestors etc in temples or at altars at home....They are made of sawdust!

They DEFINITELY do not taste nice.....

hhmm......

So I spent some time thinking...and finally realised that the person who translated it had the wrong "xiang"....

香 = fragrant!

but

香 = joss-stick too!

So there you go!

A computer translator won't work!

More posts later....when I am back in China...

I am now back in Malaysia, in Johor Baru...

Came back to sort out my personal and administrative matters! And to visit family!
And to let my skin breathe in fresh air!

It feels good to be home! But somehow things aren't the same as before....
I have had to come back to clean up stuff and pack things up...

Whilst China is wonderful, quaint and strange! It was also so lonely in China......was getting depressed and was quite sick too,fever and chills! But there is always the pressure of performing well too!

Sigh....

Maybe this is what they meant by mid-life crisis....