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A friend of mine just returned from visiting his wife's ancestral hometown in southern China. (She's a Hakka speaker from Malaysia.) He sent along an example of some English from a hotel menu. See if you can figure out what they were trying for.
1) Fried agarit with dried flose moat.
2) Nourish stew the boiling water.
3) Fried leaf mustard with little unskilled shrimps.
4) Blatk tea.
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well 4 is clearly black tea
and 3, i'd guess is spinach (or turnip greens) with shrimp (in their shells)
2 is a soup of some sort, or perhaps broth or consume.
1 is a by far the hardest.. fried aragit (and aragit is?) with dried flose moat (on a bed off, surrounded by) dried flose moat--dried flose?
could be flowers--dried daylily blossoms are used as vegetable in chinese cooking.. but ...
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1. All I keep reading is "dried moose float"... and I'll leave that up to Consuelo and Juan's imaginations...  2. Possibly a miso based stew/soup. Miso is *never boiled yet has boiling water mixed into/with it. 3. Shrimp cocktail? 4. Baltic Tea?
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1. I'm gonna guess meat for moat but I'm baffled by the flose and the agarit.
2. No idea
3. Unskilled I'm guessing is unshelled. No clue on the fried leaf mustard.
4. I'd say black tea.
Do you have the hanzi available?
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Why couldn't leaf mustard be mustard greens, which are eaten here in the South as a green, such as the spinach of troy mentions or turnip greens? So: fried mustard greens?
The soup and black tea sound right on target.
And flose moat we'll hope isn't horse meat, taking Faldage's 'meat' as a lead. Being from the South, 'agarit' computed as 'grits' for me--but there ain't no way that's correct here!
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great thinking WW, and it could be grits, the chinese 1) eat corn, it was first brought there by the spanish as they went round the world trying to take it all over (and convert everyone to their version of christianity)
2) if this is a menu for hotel guests, they might try to make food westerns like
maybe its a sort of scrapple (grits and ground meat/sausage)
goodness knows i couldn't come up with anything.
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On the other hand, agaric is a type of mushroom. I know the most commonly known, amanita muscaria, AKA fly agaric, is psychedelic at best and poisonous at worst, but are there any edible relatives?
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Been trying left and right but I can't come up with anything suitable for number 1
When do we get to know what they were?
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Yeah, when do we get the answers? I'm starting to get a hankering for dried flose moat and I don't even know what it is.
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