Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Of language confusion

I bought some instant udon noodles from Guillotière when I was in Lyon. The weird thing was that the packet said "hot spicy & mushroom" in English, but the French version said "beef and mushroom flavour". The thing is, beef is not a replacement for "spicy", nor the other way round. I didn't mind it being either flavour, so I bought it anyway.


But curiosity makes me want to know which is correct. So I went over the whole packet to look for other translations.

The Spanish version said "mushroom and meat" (setas y carne).


But the German version includes fish?! According to Google Translate, "koreanisches fertignudel gericht fisch geschmack yukaejang" means "Korean ready noodle dish fish taste yukaejang". (I moved the word "ready" forward two places though, to make more sense :P )


After eating it, I found that "spicy" was definitely not a mistake...but with these dishes you can't really know what meat flavour it is, especially if it's spicy! So, if someone could let me know what it says in Japanese...

3 comments:

  1. it is -
    ingredient - dried onions, dried mushroom and dried carrot
    seasoning - chilli flakes, salt,soy sauce, garlic flakes, beef flavour

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  2. Is that what it says in Chinese? Hehe I guess at least the ingredients were correct :P You didn't learn Japanese in SABS? I want to know what it says in front of the packet, just above the English name...

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  3. its chinese! the front of the packet says - mushroom and beef flavour!

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