![]() The tiny melon is followed by something of opposite size: Tèxiǎo fèngguā 特小凤瓜 (lit., "especially small phoenix melon") Let's move on to "mini watermelons" (the chihuahuas of watermelons). What puzzles me is how they knew that donuts don't need to have holes (in fact, the original dough-nuts didn't have holes - those were added later (I wonder which immortal genius thought of that the second god in the donut pantheon was the person who realized that you can sell the holes too).Įnough of "meat floss donuts". Tiántiánquān 甜甜圈 (lit., "sweet sweet ring / circle") Yóuzhá quānbǐng 油炸圈饼 (lit., "oil fried round / circle cake") Tángnàzī 唐纳滋 (lit., "Tang accept / admit this / increase / grow / multiply / nourish / taste / flavor") Nor is the word for "donut" that they use:ĭōnglǜ 东律 (lit., "east law"), clearly a non-Mandarin transcription.Ĭantonese dung 1lat 1 (MSM dōngshuǎi) 冬甩 (lit., "winter-swing throw toss discard")ĭuōnázī 多拿滋 (lit., "take more this / increase / grow / multiply / nourish / taste / flavor") The meat floss is not a problem, since we've already covered it in an earlier post: The "meat floss donuts" without holes are rather perplexing. That is followed by what looks like high end penny candy.Īfter that come live frogs huddled together in a slimy mass and severed shark heads with very toothy jaws wide open (on ice), plus a few assorted shark fins. Then we have cucumber flavored Lay's potato chips that are "cool and refreshing" (qīngxīn qīngshuǎng 清新清爽). Qǐng wù shíyòng 请勿食用 ("please don't eat") Next come frozen crocodiles with oranges in their somewhat toothy jaws, "creates full of sausage", and three big Snickers bars packaged together with two free Energizer batteries labeled clearly: This is probably the most arcane -(poc)alypse ever devised, if that's what it is. To go along with the Sapporo Diet Water (in the first photograph), we have "meatwater kebobalypse (lamb kebob, hummus, onion flavored)". I won't go through all 20 of these curious items in detail, but will focus mainly on a few that are linguistically or otherwise of particular interest. Here are " 20 Things You'll Only See in Chinese Walmarts". ![]() Chinese Walmarts carry many products tailored for the local market that you would never find in an American Walmart. Don't think that a Walmart in China is like a Walmart in America.
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