1. Head Plate and Sand Law
France bureau snail
Big basic two-tone (2 bureau cowry)
Fresh fruit sand law
Countryside sand law
Gentle breeze kelp sand law
Cold fresh Hokkaido system abalone
2. Beautiful Soup of Competitive Product
France Lobster Bisque
Shark's fin Spanish gourd soup
Crisp Pihai emporer soup
Russia sifts the song soup
The Stars and Stripes ginseng stews crow chicken
North Qi danseng stews milk pigeon
3. The hall does places outstanding
The hall makes Japan Kobe beef
The hall fries France goose liver
The hall fries the snowflake cowboy bone
4. Thailand famous dish
The big mound is guessed stir frying curry crab
Chicken curry. Shrimps. Pig. Cattle.
Charcoal burns pig chuck.
5. Rake house concentration
The cattle rakes the Angesi naked eye
Angesixi is cold cling to
The bone rakes USA T
Saddle rakes the Niuxilan sheep
The drumstick rakes USA
The pig rakes USA Kazhen
The cowboy bone puts silver snowfish together
France goose liver puts the ocean shrimp together
Cheese roasts lamb chops
Glossy ganoderma scholar bureau veal
Pragrans burns silver snow fish
Big plate rakes an international
6. Grow the fresh thorn body
Snowflake beef thorn body
Special class thorn body assorted cold dishes
One-level thorn body assorted cold dishes
Two people uses thorn body assorted cold dishes
Sea urchin
Three culture fish sirloins
Three culture fish
White jade suckling pig
Rare clever fish
North Pole cowry
Qionglong fish Gold bolt fish
7. Japan Birthday Department
The one-level birthday attends to assorted cold dishes
Two people uses birthday to attend to assorted cold dishes
Three culture fish birthdays department
The eel cat tail burns the birthday department
Sea urchin birthday department
North Pole cowry birthday department
Crab seed birthday department
Swallow have no way with fish birthday department
8. Cherish the taste dish that goes with wine
Japan made dish
French style French fries
Burn the hand feather string first
Much Japan string fish
Kagoshima cigarette Pork liver
Japan pickled vegetables
Small green cold and dressed with sauce Japan melon
Mountain herbaceous plant eight claws fish
Taste drenches fever balloonfish fish trunk
Salt burns the three culture fish head
String the roast chicken cartilage together
This is a found poem, literally lifted from a menu in a restaurant during a visit to China in Autumn 2007 and highlighting the dangers and humour contained in translating directly across very different languages.