Opium rice
Language Log 2014-01-30
Summary:
Karen Serago sent in the following photograph taken by her husband, Ben Yu, of a restaurant in Taiwan that specializes in duck dishes: The large characters on the sign out front say yā piàn fàn 鸭片飯 ("rice with sliced duck" or "rice with duck slices"). Everyone who reads it, however, is automatically going to think […]