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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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I'm waiting to hear back from my friend to see what the items were. Here's my thoughts on number one: dried frozen meat / freeze-dried meat? It's a stretch, and I can't quite figure out what agarit is. There's agar-agar which is a gelatin-like substance made from a sea weed, but I can't imagine cooking with it.
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In reply to:
There's agar-agar which is a gelatin-like substance made from a sea weed, but I can't imagine cooking with it.
I was thinking of something seaweedish for agarit, it will be interesting to find out for sure.
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Sounds a bit like this one, which went around five years ago or so...anyone remember it?
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The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and
room-service at a hotel in Asia, which was recorded and published
in the Far East Economic Review.....
Room Service (RS): "Morny. Ruin sorbees"
Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service"
RS: "Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??"
G : "Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs"
RS: "Ow July den?"
G : "What??"
RS: "Ow July den?...pry, boy, pooch?"
G : "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please."
RS: "Ow July dee baychem...crease?"
G : "Crisp will be fine."
RS: "Hokay. An San tos?"
G : "What?"
RS: "San tos. July San tos?"
G : "I don't think so"
RS: "No? Judo one toes??"
G : "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo one toes' means."
RS: "Toes! toes!...why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we bother?"
G : "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an
English muffin will be fine."
RS: "We bother?"
G : "No...just put the bother on the side."
RS: "Wad?"
G : "I mean butter...just put it on the side."
RS: "Copy?"
G : "Sorry?"
RS: "Copy...tea...mill?"
G : "Yes. Coffee please, and that's all."
RS: "One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy....rye??"
G : "Whatever you say..."
RS: "Tendjewberrymud."
G : "You're welcome!"
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The only guess I can make for #1 is that something is apparently floating...
Thought I'd put here that when I did a search for foods that are good for sick people, one of the sites which, by some of the ingredients I'm guessing has to do with India or thereabouts, has listed "sizzled buttermilk".
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Wow, you learn something every day. Including the fact that Texas apparently has a Jim Hogg county.
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