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🍔 Food & Drink Chinglish Phrases

Funny Chinglish from restaurant menus and food

Smelly but tasty
闻着臭吃着香
Describes food that smells awful but tastes amazing. Classic Chinese culinary philosophy directly translated.
Fragrant but also smelly
香飘十里，臭名远扬
A poetic Chinglish description of durian fruit — strong smell but delicious taste. Classic food market description.
Husband and wife lung slice
夫妻肺片
A famous Sichuan cold dish made of beef offal.
Roasted husband
烤老公
Mistranslation on Chinese snack packaging.
Chicken without sexual life
童子鸡
A young chicken that has not mated.
Dogshit candy
狗屎糖
Chinese candy with a funny name.
The explodes the chicken wings
爆炸鸡翅
Explosive chicken wings.
Red burned pork
红烧肉
Braised pork belly.
Four happy meatballs
四喜丸子
Lucky meatballs.
GongBao chicken Ding
宫保鸡丁
Kung Pao Chicken.
Running the egg flower soup
跑蛋花汤
Egg drop soup.
Tea egg
茶叶蛋
Tea-infused boiled egg.
Dongpo meat
东坡肉
Dongpo Pork, named after poet Su Dongpo.
Saliva chicken
口水鸡
Mouth-watering chicken.
Ants climbing tree
蚂蚁上树
Vermicelli noodles with minced pork.
Dry fry cow river
干炒牛河
Stir-fried beef rice noodles.
Twice cooked pork
回锅肉
Twice-cooked pork belly.
Get out of the pot sticky
出锅粘
Sticky rice cake.
The strong suit is chicken
强项是鸡
Our specialty is chicken.
Fish fragrant eggplant
鱼香茄子
Fish-fragrant eggplant with no fish.