● Chicken without sexual life

● Red burned lion head

● Husband and wife's lung slice

● Government abuse chicken

● Twice cooked pork

● Bean curd made by a pock-marked woman

            These translations are first posted at www.chinahistoryforum.com by a foreigner who traveled throughout China. Let's see how "General Zhaoyun" interprets these unusually named dishes…

1. "Chicken without sexual life" - Tong Zĭ Jī (do you mean virgin chicken?)
            Proper English translation should be "Spring Chicken" or "Poussin"/"Coquelet" in French. They refer to young chickens which have been bred for eating (for less than 3 months.

2. "Red burned lion head" - Hóngshāo shīzi tóu
            Proper English translation should be "Freshly Stewed Pork-balls". Note that it's actually pork, but the fact that it looks like lion head, that's why it's called Lion Head (shīzi tóu) in Chinese. But in English, it would really be misleading if people mistake it as lion meat.

5. "Twice cooked pork" - Hui Guo Ròu
            This is a Sìchuān food that has been literally and correctly translated.

6. "Bean curd made by a pock-marked woman" - Mapo Doufu
            Proper English translation should be "Bean curd with spicy minced pork".

It's a Sìchuān food. As Raymond Zhou wrote in the China daily newspaper: "The process of standardizing a menu translation is a double-edged sword because it removes the ambiguity and unintended humor taking away the fun and the rich connotation". How do we make foreigners, who grew and live in a different culture, fully understand Chinese food names? How do we maintain the original cultural connotation during the translation?

            Li Yang, the voice director (Do you mean, Public Director?) of the Běijīng Foreign Affair Office said, "Food name translation not only puzzles the foreign tourists, but also puzzles experts who engage in dish translation". He said, "How to translate food names is even a hard job for many linguistic experts". To solve this problem the Běijīng Government invited many professionals from the USA, UK, Singapore and

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- Ustajem u 5:30 sati.

- Slijedi obavezna tjelovježba od najmanje 30 minuta.

- Doručak je dosta obilan.

- Radim od 7 do 13:30 sati, ne dulje.

- Sredina dana za mene je nešto posebno. Ručak je standardan, ni prevelik, ni premalen.

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- Predvečer ispunim nekom "svojom" aktivnošću, kako me volja (sport ili brža šetnja). Može i neki hobi. Rado sam u vrtu. Volim prirodu, slobodu, svjež zrak.