"Dinosaurs Along The Silk Road" -- Sinofossa 2009 1 - Trip To Beijing

Pictures of the beginning of my 2009 trip to China to co-lead the "Dinosaurs Along The Silk Road" geotour, beginning in Las Vegas, going through San Francisco, and on to Beijing!

I know that there are entire web sites devoted to "<a href="http://www.engrish.com/">Engrish</a>" (strange translations of various Asian languages into English), and I admit we had several laughs at some of them...but in the end, they're still <i>way</i> better than anything I could produce translating English into Chinese...! So I'm more apt to try and (a) learn a little Chinese, and (b) try and figure out what this was <i>supposed</i> to say... This was the cover of the room service menu for our room at the Xinjiang Hotel. Matt, as he is wont to do, made this into a song lyric.

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I know that there are entire web sites devoted to "Engrish" (strange translations of various Asian languages into English), and I admit we had several laughs at some of them...but in the end, they're still way better than anything I could produce translating English into Chinese...! So I'm more apt to try and (a) learn a little Chinese, and (b) try and figure out what this was supposed to say... This was the cover of the room service menu for our room at the Xinjiang Hotel. Matt, as he is wont to do, made this into a song lyric.

Xinjiang Hotel Beijing China menu Engrish