please dont be edible

    the sign reads
    "Please don't be edible
    Exterior Girdle food"
    What does it mean?
    I haven't got a clue, cannibals operating locally? Perhaps someone who can read mandarin can tell me?

    See more Chinglish at www.chinglish.dinglespeaks.com

    Comments and faves

    1. ★

      TwoCrabs, carriechow, willgorman, Wai Bing, and 20 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. Poagao (80 months ago | reply)

      "Please don't consume food you brought in from outside", more or less.

    3. highglosshighs (80 months ago | reply)

      deja vu! :)

      www.flickr.com/photos/qilin/52376263/in/pool- engrish/

    4. stanley (80 months ago | reply)

      OMG....
      Poagao is right about the Chinese meaning
      It must be translated word by word....

      Please add this to
      Chinese Signboards
      Bad Signs
      S!gns

    5. sparkles. (80 months ago | reply)

      fantastic!

    6. ~My aim is true~ (80 months ago | reply)

      Awesome. In Paris, you often see menus translated into English. My favorite was "Sir Loin in his sauce". Yum.

    7. Wai Bing (80 months ago | reply)

      I hate when I'm edible!!

    8. hugovk (78 months ago | reply)

      On English menus in Finland, they call a (beef) steak a "beefsteak".

      But for othe types of meat they write "beefsteak of pork" or "beefsteak of lamb"!

    9. hk_traveller (75 months ago | reply)

      Interesting shot. I also got a similar one:

      Toilet

    10. ALEXTENG (71 months ago | reply)

      This sentence means:don’t eat any food besides what the restaurant provided. In another why,it tells people they can only eat food the restaurant provided. Most restaurant bosses want to earn more money by this way. my English is poor,but I hope you can understand me.

    11. RoBo-Design (71 months ago | reply)

      This reminds me of that line from Willy Wonka. :)

    12. Newleaf (71 months ago | reply)

      I always wonder "why?"- why have these totally bizarre translations happened? and what do we do to the chinese translations?
      from the Theme of the Week Group

    13. billadler (62 months ago | reply)

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 1-2-3 Signs, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

    14. 莫云飞 (46 months ago | reply)

      汗~~~大汗~~~这些语句在中国是在正常不过的了。我想是翻译障碍……

    15. 莫云飞 (46 months ago | reply)

      或者说是理解能力的障碍？

    16. katymonster (46 months ago | reply)

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Do Not Have Fun, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

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