(trying not to laugh so hard that tea spurts out my nose)

[juhuacha]

Beijing to close unsanitary restaurants

Comments

[former_pirate]

Hey, 90 per cent of China's food is safe. That's what Beijing told Hong Kong after the recent food scare in which the mainland seemed to be trying to kill us with no fewer than three variations of contaminated fish.

So I'll only become ill from one in ten meals? I like those odds!

[juhuacha]

wow only one in ten?

somehow I feel like its more...

[enluya]

haha, somehow those phrases are funnier once translated into english -
when i hear them on cctv i rarely notice how absurd they sound.
i guess ppl talk like that all the time that i've grown accustomed to the wording and phrasing.

[juhuacha]

lol, exactly.

I was with a Chinese friend who has lived in the states for like, 15 years, and we went to see a taping of one of those awful chunjie specials and we were laughing over the language being used... she had forgot how slogan-based it was at times...

[poubelle]

Oh god. Words don't exist.

But there goes all the delicious, poisonous street food I so love. ;_;

[juhuacha]

well, technically, if its real street food, the "restaurants" can do what they do best: run from the po-lice and just come back the next morning :)