HAINAN: THE SIGNS

[defrog]

One of the highlights of any trip to mainland China is humorous English signs translated literally and unedited with free software, which I love not because I think people who can’t write English correctly are funny, but because these signs are genius be-bop poetry no native English speaker could ever think up.



They’re all pretty self-explanatory, though it’s worth mentioning that the fifth pic is supposed to be an "exit" sign, and the last pic is from the propaganda section of the Hualong Coffee Factory entrance. The guy on the right is Deng Xiaoping, who liked himself a cup of joe whilst inventing Socialism With Chinese Characteristics.

The coffee factory itself was interesting in that – like a coconut factory we saw earlier in the trip – it was a front for a huge store selling coconut and coffee products, with the aisles designed as a giant maze so that you had to walk past every available product to get to the exit, with no shortcuts possible, and plenty of sampling stations along the way. There was a ruthless kind of cleverness to it.

Up next: the streets!

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Comments

[thelastaerie.livejournal.com]

"Leans on the danger" sounds like a challenge to me :)

[ellierachael.livejournal.com]

oh I loved those signs, they cracked me up!