msnbc: What exactly is ‘Hand Shredded A$$ Meat’? A new dictionary for Chinese restaurants may tell you Overseas tourists often find the menus here befuddling, for good reason. After all, what Westerner has experience with foods such as these: “Cowboy leg,” “Hand-shredded ass meat,” “Red-burned lion head,” “Strange flavor noodles,” “Blow-up flatfish with no result,” or “Tofu made by woman with freckles.” With few English speakers, restaurants usually translate their menus word by word directly from an English-Chinese dictionary. Image: Bo Gu/NBC News So, how can one buy this book? This looks handy. Click for high-res photo

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What exactly is ‘Hand Shredded A$$ Meat’? A new dictionary for Chinese restaurants may tell you

Overseas tourists often find the menus here befuddling, for good reason.

After all, what Westerner has experience with foods such as these: “Cowboy leg,” “Hand-shredded ass meat,” “Red-burned lion head,” “Strange flavor noodles,” “Blow-up flatfish with no result,” or “Tofu made by woman with freckles.”

With few English speakers, restaurants usually translate their menus word by word directly from an English-Chinese dictionary.

Image: Bo Gu/NBC News

So, how can one buy this book? This looks handy.

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