Priceless: China Quirks & lost in translation...

After the Tiannaman square, we were amused to discover the next building, right opposite it. I challenge the reader to guess what is the purpose of the building given below....

To help you, as you can see, the place has with trinkets etc and also various other odds and ends. It even housed batteries, cheap mobiles and Cameras!!! 




Can you guess the real purpose of this building??















 
And the right answer is: The place is actually a public toilet....(can zoom the pic and see the sign inside..) 

Thank God, they hadn't squeezed a restaurant in there too...
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Lost in translation:

Chinese may be great in many things, but English is definitely not in the list....
Sample the following:
 
#1: At Summer Palace, Beijing


"Help protect the Cultural Relics, Help protect the RAILINGS (??!!!)"



 #2: Outside the Janitor's room, Muthianyu, Great Wall of China




"Management between"??? What the heck did the chap wanted to say anyway??  

And last but not the least:


 #3: Sign Board atop a urinal at Muthianyu, Great Wall of China


"Closer the distance is Civilization way"

I dared not click that, but I think you can guess the intended meaning....:)

Comments

  1. Shirish12:19 PM, August 29, 2012

    Lalitabh

    A shop near the toilet may not be so odd to us, though it is certainly amusing.
    But the examples of Chinese English here are just hilarious, they made me laugh like a maniac.
    ( By the way their English seems to be worse then their low quality toys)

    Shirish

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