As a little diversion from my Olympic “reporting,” I thought I’d share some incredible menu translations that Lacey and I copied down from the menu of “Mao Jia” (Mao’s House) restaurant in Shenzhen, a city outside Hong Kong where we were unexpectedly forced to spend a night during our travels, thanks to Typhoon Kammuri.  Here they are, in no particular order:

•  Flavor Saliva Chicken
• Moo Cow Entrails
• The Real Taste Drunk Fried Fish
• The Pig Tail is SuccessivelyHigh
• Palace Chicken, Bull’s Penis, Soft-Shell Turtle
• Black Bean Steams Intestines
• The Gluttonous Rice Flutters the Fragrant Bone
• Western Hunan Bandit Pig Liver
• Unwearied Effort However Inch Bone
• The Green Pepper Fries the Diesel Oil
• A Chicken (this last complete with a blurry photograph of a plucked, cooked chicken, and nothing else)