Typhoon Shelters
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mmmm… urine shrimp. :9
The shrimp is kinda tangy…
like they cooked it in beer…
Style Frog?
Is this a Franco-Oriental restaurant?
Someone should coin that phrase for random situations. In the middle of a boring meeting you could just be like, “typhoon shelters rushing current urine shrimp!”
lmfao
i second that
Pan… DUHHHHHHHHHHHH
DOI! stupidd pandaz, wait, MA left comment AND HILARITY?!?!?! YIPPIEZ! *jumps for joy and hopes that dark link comes back.*
Waiter, I’ll just have the empty-plate special. Thanks
I’m kinda amazed that the Typhoon line got the koala over the urine one on this blog
Style frog: the tasty meal that thinks your hairdo is SO last week.
lol
Same company that brought us the crunchy frog chocolate sampler?
LARK VOMIT?!?!?!?
It says it on the bottom of the box, just after “Monosodium Glutamate”.
Well, if we took the BONES out, it wouldn’t be CRUNCHY, would it???
I had to get out my Monty Python CD and listen to that sketch. It was the only thing I could do to get it out of my head!
I HARDLY think that’s SUFFICIENT! I think it should bear a large red label, “WARNING: LARK’S VOMIT!”
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But what about our sales?
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[CENSORED] your sales! We’ve got to protect the public..
Pee shrimps FTW!
…and, yes, that panda-furry sucks. ‘Nuff said.
Did they change lark’s vomit with urine shrimp?
If I had to use a typhoon shelter, I’m pretty sure I’d have a rushing current of urine. Not sure where the shrimp come in.
Oooh, unless they’re really small. You know, wee shrimp.
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No way, man! The panda is the most important part of Engrish!
I’ll just get the spiced salt ribs, thanks.
A typhoon shelter, as it name suggests, is used by small to medium ships as a shelter against gale force winds and rough seas during a typhoon strike. It is also used to store yachts (the shelter in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong is often used for that purpose). Some typhoon shelters are also places for vessels loading and unloading cargos.
[edit] Life in typhoon shelters
Before the 1990s, there was a fairly large population living on boats in typhoon shelters. Many of them were the descendants of fishermen or boat people. They developed a distinct culture that is different than the other mainstream cultures found in Hong Kong. The culture is, by many definitions, a fully developed culture, as the culture has its own form of wedding rituals and for other matters such as food, singing, and speech. The famous dish typhoon shelter-style fried crab (Chinese: 避風塘炒蟹), which is served in a lot of Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong, is believed to be originated from typhoon shelters.
They’re the Tanka people.
“Typhoon Shelter” is actually a style of preparing hot and spicy seafood, like crab, shrimp, etc. A fair number of people in Hong Kong used to(and still do) live on houseboats, and when a typhoon was about to hit they would all move into certain sheltered bays known as – duh – Typhoon Shelters, and ride out the storm together. At some point, someone decided that cooking a nice hot dish of seafood with lots of garlic and chili would be a good way to wait out the typhoon, the dish and the name caught on, and it is now popular in Hong Kong as a late-night dinner.
Also, “pissing shrimp” is another name for the mantis shrimp, a predatory crustacean that when cooked, actually urinates in the cooking pot unless the chef spears it during preparation to void the bladder/bowels prior to cooking.
This episode of boring pedanticism brought to you by a Chinese-American fan of Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” TV show(Season 3, “Hong Kong”). We now return you to your regularly scheduled entertainment.
Yep, I loves my “pissing shrimp.”
“Mantis shrimp appear to be highly intelligent, are long-lived and exhibit complex behaviour, such as ritualised fighting. Scientists have discovered that some species use fluorescent patterns on their bodies for signaling with their own and maybe even other species, expanding their range of behavioural signals. They can learn and remember well, and are able to recognise individual neighbours with whom they frequently interact. They can recognise them by visual signs and even by individual smell. Many have developed a complex social behaviour to defend their space from rivals. [...] In the monogamous species, the mantis shrimp remain with the same partner for up to 20 years.”
Those would make some bitchin’ sea monkeys.
** actually urinates in the cooking pot unless the chef spears it during preparation to void the bladder/bowels prior to cooking.**
Gah! How do you know if the chef did or not
I’m thinking shrimp don’t make a lot of urine, and frankly, most shrimp are still served with the gut vein in anyway — quite likely that what we associate with the flavor of shrimp includes parts of the shrimp that aren’t customarily spoken about in polite society.
**Watch out, Guido! That one’s pissing, spear it!**
They probably used Current to mean fresh and urine could mean brine. Brine Shrimp are used for bait here not for eating but it could be different there.
urine shrimp and style frog are definitely better.
That damn current urine shrimp better not have replaced the past urine shrimp. I liked the little spicy twist.
Wow! Pretty odd sounding stuff!
Looking into this a bit more…
The famous dish typhoon shelter-style fried crab (Chinese: 避風塘炒蟹), which is served in a lot of Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong, is believed to be originated from typhoon shelters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_shelter
…and a full page with many paragraphs of intense engrish goodness describing their product, the “Rushing current urine shrimp”:
http://www.tdseafood.com/product.asp?id=41
Checked out the full engrish page.
“when it to water, on the body always has a volunteer fire brigade to flow out, looks like the baby to urinate, therefore a quite inelegant name.”
Whoa. A volunteer fire brigade? This I’d like to see.
That’s some epic engrish right there
“Die Panda!” is the new “First!”
No way!
xxx
Panda Win!
Come back Panda, all is forgiven! We luuuuuv you!
Sillyness! Panda is a masculine noun, so it should be “Der Panda.”
German Fail
I love the panda.
How often?
I prefer current urine shrimp to former urine shrimp, let me tell you.
So if you drink a current of shrimp urine, you will gain so much weight not even a typhoon will be able to move you.
well this is a real dishes in Chinese Cantonese food
in this case, they got each word translated in right way.
“urine shrimp” got this funny name because before you cook it,
lots amount of water will discharge from there body (sea water of cuz)
like a baby peeing all around. (guys dont be afraid of the name it’s taste good!)
For the “typhoon shelter”, it’s a famous place located in Aberdeen in Hongkong, which serve the best seafood in Hongkong, Since we got lots of typhoon visit here so we used to call Aberdeen = typhoon shelter
I’ll pass on the urinating shrimp. I’m have a packet of Ramen instead.
that urine shrimp must be something important.