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Stir Fried Wikipedia

By Alex in Blog & Internet, Food & Drinks, Pictures on Oct 1, 2008 at 2:38 pm


Last year, Jim of Evolving Web blog went to Beijing and ate at a restaurant there when he noticed some unusual menu choices: wikipedia!

So, after much discussion, here is what we think happened.

"Hey I’m making the new menu, what’s the english name for those flat crispy mushrooms?"

"Um, there isn’t one."

"Well what should I put down here?"

"I don’t know, look it up in wikipedia."

"What?"

"Wikipedia!"

Link – via Language Log


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  1. meg
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    I'd eat that stir-fried wikipedia just to say I did :P

  2. straydog
    Oct 1st, 2008 at 11:55 pm

    Taste like chicken.

    All 3 wikipedia dishes has chicken in them. How the word 'chicken' translates into 'wikipedia' is beyond me.

  3. Blimpboy
    Oct 2nd, 2008 at 6:20 am

    nah that's not chicken, the chinese is goose.

    which makes more sense, obviously.

  4. offthemeathook
    Oct 2nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    I ate there last year. It's a really good restaurant, actually! What they're calling "wikipedia" is a mushroom.

  5. Thomas
    Oct 2nd, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    I prefer baked google.

  6. liltrix
    Oct 5th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    i just got back from Beijing, and more than one place had "wikipedia" as a "main ingredient" on several dishes... i asked, and its some kind of hairy mushroom??

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