Comments on: Seafood Gone Wild

By: owo

owo — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:21:08 +0000

Some of you speak Japanese worse than the Japanese speak English.. (to not know what ‘ebi’ means.. it’s probably one of the main ingredients in most Japanese dishes.. >_>)
I wonder if there’s Japanese pictures of American restaurants that wrote ‘ebi’ on their signs when it’s clearly unagi.. XD

By: Pretentious White Girl

Pretentious White Girl — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:34:07 +0000

I would seek immediate medical attention…

By: Pretentious White Girl

Pretentious White Girl — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:32:22 +0000

Tastes like chicken. ;D

By: noob

noob — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:28:20 +0000

yum!!

By: Egao No Genki

Egao No Genki — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:37:25 +0000

Ebi is a general term for seafood (mainly shrimp.)

If there was a “Japanean,” (is that the analog for “Engrish?”) one would be misspelling “ebi” as “hebi” (snake!)

By: ThyGoblinking

ThyGoblinking — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:42:05 +0000

It’s so good to see that the old ones still work.

By: WeirdFish

WeirdFish — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:59:47 +0000

It’s just a style choice, just like English signs and store names aren’t REQUIRED to have proper capitalization or spacing.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:11:55 +0000

I’ve only ever seen Shrimp or Prawn written as “ebi” in katakana (sorry no japanese on this pc) – and curry written as “karee” – so it seems strange to see it as “karii”.

You aren’t completely wrong

By: Nanasi

Nanasi — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:47:37 +0000

No. You are wrong. You can stop now.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:45:47 +0000

I do not think you have lived in Japan. Katakana is used all the time to write Japanese words for style.

Also, えび is more commonly written 海老 in kanji.

By: E/N

E/N — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:44:21 +0000

海老 is the more common way to write shrimp in Japanese kanji.

By: JW

JW — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:24:53 +0000

It was a napalese-run restaurant… maybe that could explain the use of katakana?
There was also “Mautton curry” on the menu… not funny though

By: Az

Az — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:12:08 +0000

Waiter! Theres curry in my semen!

By: Jus'mee

Jus'mee — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:58:50 +0000

Ebi is shrimp just fyi
They may have been trying to use “prawn” or perhaps “corn”, but who knws?

By: daisy4given

daisy4given — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:12:22 +0000

uuuh! NASTY!

By: Erika

Erika — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:45:14 +0000

It’s supposed to be prawn, not pork.

By: operator

operator — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:11:33 +0000

in more ways than we wish to imagine

By: PoohHag

PoohHag — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:02:41 +0000

Waiter, there’s semen in my soup……..

By: nickelbacksucks

nickelbacksucks — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:00:04 +0000

I’ve seen Popsicles and lollipops but pron curry is a new one.

By: Cy

Cy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:21:25 +0000

Stop with your failed knowledge!
Ebi does mean prawn!!!
Eel is Unagi!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:28:23 +0000

It’s asian food, sometimes you can find some pretty strange combinations there

By: Gerg

Gerg — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:21:23 +0000

Finally!!

By: B3llit0

B3llit0 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:44:52 +0000

I noticed that, merely leaving as much of the menu intact as possible. Again, it strikes me odd that they would write 蝦 in katakana, so this was probably made by Koreans or Chinese. Weird, isn’t it?

By: Kit

Kit — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:33:49 +0000

Of course they are… PRON!

By: katirrac

katirrac — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:19:23 +0000

Anyone who would feed curry to their dog deserves the outcome.

By: katirrac

katirrac — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:15:47 +0000

The sign is above has much win!

By: Sesoron

Sesoron — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:59:04 +0000

That’s odd, I’ve only ever seen it spelled カレー before this. That’s the spelling I ordered in my month abroad, and that’s the spelling I learned in class. Not only that, but my go-to dictionary (Jeffrey Fried’s) doesn’t list anything relevant for カリー. Where was it that you encountered these alternate spellings?

By: Roleplaying God

Roleplaying God — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:49:18 +0000

somehow, this doesn’t turn me on…….

By: catgirl

catgirl — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:47:23 +0000

Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s a prawn in the top picture

By: BAKON!

BAKON! — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:27:24 +0000

B3llit0, you overlooked that curry is spelled “カレー” in katakana and not “カリ”. I have doubts this was made by the japanese, or perhaps they differentiate japanese style curry from indian style curry (which this seems to be?) or some other weird soup dish I wouldnt let my dog eat

By: B3llit0

B3llit0 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:12:53 +0000

More like Nihongo no Engrish Central, your number-one source for what’s REALLY going on behind the scenes of Engrish signs.

By: Mi-suky

Mi-suky — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:50:25 +0000

I totally agree, it’s EXTREMELY annoying to think that we simply can’t figure out the punchline unless the panda points it out >_>

By: Gorgonzola

Gorgonzola — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:19:04 +0000

It can still be funny, but only if its eaten by a sea man and his colleagues

By: Mephiles

Mephiles — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:28:31 +0000

They’re worms. :p

Seriously though they’re probably used condoms.

By: secondfiddle

secondfiddle — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:22:40 +0000

It’s “cream of sumyunguy”.

By: Sillee Gurl

Sillee Gurl — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:47:52 +0000

oh, I thought it was “prawn”

By: jen

jen — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:25:59 +0000

LOL XD i was wondering the same goddamn thing.

OK Random MaGee.

By: B3llit0

B3llit0 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:00:45 +0000

No, うなぎ (unagi) is freshwater eel (more common to eat, better flavour to most people) and あなご (anago) is saltwater eel. Ebi, or 蝦 (and エビ on this menu) is shrimp.

By: Rene

Rene — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:58:21 +0000

Er..shrimp. Never mind.

By: Rene

Rene — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:57:42 +0000

The kana above the english text say ‘ebi’ which means eel.

By: B3llit0

B3llit0 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:57:35 +0000

I was about to comment that “ebi” is shrimp and not pork, but someone already has. Strangely, the menu items are all in katakana, which is usually only used for loanwords and special terms (“curry” and “masala” are OK, not sure why the menu writers opted for katakana on the shrimp).

If you’d like to see it, here is the kanji for shrimp: 蝦

To rewrite the menu:

蝦のカリ
Shrimp curry

蝦のマサラをカリ
Shrimp masala curry

蝦のマッカニ
Shrimp makhni

By: Anneliese

Anneliese — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:55:07 +0000

Ahhh, so this is SeaFood, no??? Somehow this is no longer funny… *sigh*

By: StyckyWycket

StyckyWycket — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:35:25 +0000

Copycat.

By: StyckyWycket

StyckyWycket — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:34:50 +0000

I get the weird feeling I know exactly how this Engrish happened: it has to do with the litteral pronunciation of the L337 “pr0n”.

But then again, I could just be a total Capt. Obvious.

By: Johnny-the-7

Johnny-the-7 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:24:07 +0000

again, what does eel have to do with this picture of which pork is, obviously, the meat of choice?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:21:29 +0000

some people eat it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:21:05 +0000

You’ve had a bit too much deepresso this morning yes?

By: Johnny-the-7

Johnny-the-7 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:19:32 +0000

and eel has…….what to do with this picture?

By: H.D.

H.D. — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:19:02 +0000

For those with more… unusual tastes.

By: Johnny-the-7

Johnny-the-7 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:08:29 +0000

sorry, I got a little excited when I was taking the pictures -_-