S’pore-themed restaurant in Beijing serves ‘Malay meat’, waitresses wear fake SIA kebaya – Mothership.SG

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A restaurant in Beijing has apparently tried to convey a little bit of the Lion Metropolis to the house of the Forbidden Metropolis.

Sadly, there are main hiccups in all the things from the knock-off Singapore Airways kebaya uniforms to the puzzling names of “Singaporean” dishes.

Dishes with unintelligible names

Arthur Pang, a Malaysian residing in Beijing, shared photographs of the menu of the restaurant — named “Borderless” — on Fb on Monday (Apr. 18).

Spelling errors

There have been points with the spelling of a few of the names, however a minimum of the meals appeared not too off:

Unusual translations

A couple of of the dishes had been translated very oddly and too actually.

For instance, this rib dish become “grasp the sand bone”:

And this dish that seems to be prata was merely named “Lion metropolis throw bread”.

Inaccurate names

Nevertheless, that was not all. A number of the meals objects listed on the menu had been merely, effectively, fallacious.

Someway, fried rice grew to become “Singapore Fried bee hoon“.

And the vegetable sambal kangkong was known as tauhu goreng, which is fried tofu.

The true tauhu goreng was additionally obtainable on the menu, however to order that, you would need to ask for “Fried Tofu W ith Minced Malay Meat”.

And naturally, there’s the traditional Singaporean dish that everyone knows and love: Scalded Romaine Lettuce, aka uncooked (?) broccoli in a bowl and garnished with an ice dice.

SIA-esque uniforms

Pang additionally captured a number of photographs of what seems to be one other aspect of the restaurant’s makes an attempt to create a Singapore-like ambiance — the restaurant’s workers dressed within the sarong kebaya, harking back to Singapore Airways’ stewardesses.

Shared greater than 4,000 occasions

Inside 10 hours of Pang publishing the photographs, the publish has been shared greater than 4,300 occasions.

The feedback and shares had been filled with Singaporeans lamenting the mistranslations and poking enjoyable on the inaccuracies within the dishes.

Many additionally criticised the wait workers’s uniforms, with some commenters saying that it damages Singapore Airways’ repute.

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Prime photographs through Fb/Arthur Pang.