Monday, May 13, 2019

Stalking the wild asparagus

Westerners living in Taiwan are much in demand as extras on TV, and I recently received a job offer as a "soldier on a battleship" in a historical drama. I found this portion of the application form pretty funny.


Apparently, if you want non-vegetarian food, you're on your own!

(In fact, 葷食 just means an ordinary, non-Buddhist diet, including such things as meat and onions. "Foraging" is how Google Translate renders it.)

1 comment:

Francis Berger said...

Google translate is a never-ending source of amusement. I stumble across things like this every week here in Hungary.

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