Funny translations

Funny translations (also known as Engrish) which have been spotted on leaflets, menus and signs abroad, as well as websites.

• Funny Bulgarian menu (quite long so it's on a separate page - opens in a new window).
• Thanks to Phil Martin for contributing this

• Goose with fence sauce
• Menu, France

• Travelling potatoes
• White whine
• Sardine in special roof tile
• Menu, Spain

"Per hour of the lunch, you finely have the choice between the small one and the chart of season... A sympathetic addresse pastoral for all the Family."

"Girandole in the medium of the new thickets awaits you...salads, crunch-Mister, pizza pies. The sale to be carried enables you to be restored and to refresh you very continuously to discover the gardens."

• Peanuts coconut cream flavour. Non-stop crunchy!
• Chinese snack container, UK

• Nice to look it
• Nice to hold it
• If you break it
• You pay for it
• Sign, Chinese shop, USA (note: the original of this shop sign in common use is: "Nice to look at, nice to hold, if you break it, consider it sold").

• No guns, no flip-flops.
• Sign outside nightclub, Bangkok

• Fried milk
• Thai menu, UK

• Ingredients: Tomatoes, oil, spicery
• Chinese sauce packet, UK

• Live robster
• Sign on fishmonger's window in Chinese district, Sydney
• Thanks to Liz Penn for sending this item

• Fish muslin with chive
• Herring nets
• Varied crudenesses
• Fried scallops see food
• Skates with capers
• Menu, Cherbourg, France

• The Hall of Expectation
• Waiting room in a Ukranian Airport
• Thanks to Bendyjoe for this item

• Bang Lump Poo
• Thai restaurant menu, London

• Q. How about the shipping cost?
• A. That depends on the products's weight. If you have placed the order on our website direclty, then our workers will send you the confirmation of your orders with the shipping cost in it. Or you can contact our online liver.
• Chinese electronics website

• Fly Rice and Noddle
• Lettering in window of a Chinese Takeaway, Power Street, Camberwell, Vic. Australia. Yes it really did have "Fried rice and noodles" spelled like that! And was known to locals as "The Noddle Shop" until its demise.

• Loving Wife Milk
• Literal translation (possibly computer-generated) of "Liebfraumilch" in a wine bar, Bregenz, Austria

• You assist by composting yourself the ticket
• Instruction on Paris suburban RATP railways ("composter vos billets" is the French instruction for "validate your tickets")

• Him long long long whisky
• Pidgin English translation of "He is drunk" recorded from numerous Island groups, where you also find "Bigfella Belong Missus Kween", the name for Prince Charles.
• Thanks to Rick Squirrell for the above 4 items.

• Bread Crumbed sheep's testicules
• Restaurant menu, Nice, France

• Spied upon prickly tomato sauce
• Indian restaurant menu, Antibes, France

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