Fun With Language Howlers Lost In Translation

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Lost in Translation - From Shanghai




Today at World Travel Market I picked up the unintentionally amusing Shanghai Travel Guide and I shall share with you the delights you find when you read it: 

 "Maoming Road 
As the night falls Bar street of Maoming Road becomes noisy and busy with fashionable beautiful girls and handsome boys walking here and there. ROFL. 

Judy's Too - 
With achaized carriage, ROFL 

nostalgic decorations, caiginous lights  ROFL 

and fresh yellow tulips, Judy's provides beefsteaks imported all from Australia with high prices. ROFL

 East Sea Pub - 
Provides the atmosphere of 1920s and 1930s with ..works from artists in the Renaissance period. ROFL 

You can think back the changing of history. ROFL 

And find out the true meanings of life. ROFL 

M Box 
Relax with friends drinking cups of beers  ROFL 

and singing. You can ask professional singers to sing a few songs while you can also sing yourself. ROFL 

1931 
A nostalgic bars with variegated lights, aspirin advertisements, ROFL 

aged marriage papers ROFL, 

old radio and hanging style ROLF 

old telephone. Numerous white-collars ROFL 

enjoy killing time in the nights inebriating themselves ROFL 

in the old times. 

CJW Wines, 
tipples, whiskey and cigars stand quietly ROFL 

in the huge glass cabinet, swimming ROFL 

and shining. Super Jazz soul band presents performance every night, intonating while heartthrobbing ROFL, 

attractive and tempting. ROFL 

Rojam Club & Disco 
frequently invites foreign DJs to provide the customers with absolutely top-ranking world-styled innervations. ROFL 

Delifrance - 
which was decorated unsophisticatedly ROFL 

just like a supramundane countryside ROFL 

full of wheat-smelling. ROFL 

It is really agreeable to have a cup of coffee together with some fancy cakes 
ROFL 

in the sunshiny morning. ROFL 

Coffee Club 
with environment of delightfully elegance and loneness ROFL, 

and French windows in the face of streets ROFL, 

concreted walls were warm-coloured, ROFL 

table and chairs were brown-coloured  ROLF 

and the wall was embedded with Arabic vessels. It provides various and featured cafe as well as tastefully pleasant background music. 

SOAHC Restaurant 
You will discover its magnificence when walking in- 5 meter high indoor waterfall, ROFL 

13 meter long large canvas, together with phantasmagoric colours caused by the refraction of the surrounding cut glass and rays, every corner reflects the thoughts of the designer. ROFL 

It is quite pleasant to enjoy a low-pressure ROFL afternoon. 

Ruijin Guest House 
is a villatic ROFL 

garden hotel with 30,000 meters virescence ROFL and lake area. 

Donghu Hotel
 is the prime whither ROFL 

for guest both home and abroad. 

Jade Buddha Temple 
The temple was built to enshrine the statues. The temple was later destroyed by fire. ROFL

 The architecture is .. looking magnificent and pompous. ROFL. 

Gan Guo Ju 
features Miao dishes. ROFL 

At the entrance of the restaurant, a big wooden spoon will catch your eyes. ROFL. 

Cochinchina 
Sweet and sour sauce will inspire your appetite a lot. The Vietnam Ambrosia is not that important compared to its dining atmosphere which is romantic enough to kill every female softly. ROFL. 

Bali Laguna 
like an exotic and elegant canteen ROFL 

- downstairs bar appears to be under the water ROFL- 

which creates special visual experience bringing you a kind of fancy feelings.ROFL. 

Tanfu Cuisine Restaurant 
successfully integrated Chinese South Cooking style with North Cooking Style to create a new cooking style ROFL 

which keeps improving. ROFL.

Tanfu 
style satisfied those fastidious high officials. Feudal official soft rice with sharp fin imperatorial soup, feudal official Red-roast abalone and other Ambrosia brings everyone a new sense of feelings all the time. Palladio - it is really wonderful and joyful sitting close to the French windows ROFL 

Malone's American Cafe 
The band here performs excellently to bring the acquaintances and strangers, Chinese and Foreigners together, hands in hands, dance in dance, joyful and wonderful. 

Studio City Cinema 
It creates a perfect entertaining place for trendy persons, together with comfortable and loose seats. 

Paramount Entertainment Concourse 
attracts not only fashionable youngsters but also many overseas old Shanghainese. 

Kowloon Icehouse 
Take a rest here when you get tired hanging around. ROFL 

Indian Kitchen 
Glass walls around the kitchen makes customers easier to watch ROFL 

the Indian cook's performance and everyday the cook goes to the hall to show their tour de force of making Indian flying pie. ROFL 

O'Malleys Irish pub 
persons running downstairs and upstairs might all speak Irish. ROFL 

O' Malleys 
is just a foreign restaurant in China full of old stories. ROFL 

Hengshan hotel. 
airplane-type on bird's eye, equipped with idiographic banqueting hall.
ROFL 

Chat Tea restaurant 
is a modern city club mixing historic distillate with future pith. ROFL"

 I realise how poor my language is compared with this use of it.

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