I love store signs in Lhasa.
Someone, somewhere, has decreed that signs outside stores in this town must be trilingual (and colored red). So, fire up the online translation service. Input Chinese characters (themselves loosely translated from Tibetan) and there you are! Nonsense of the first order.
There's a new batch this season that includes the two signs in the photo, plus "Amdo Tibetan Restaurant First Pakistani Grass" and "East Side Shop One Pressure". I checked out the restaurant but the fare in no way lived up to the delights hinted at by the sign.
Some classics of yesteryear, especially "Tibet Ancient Food" and "Auspicous Rabbit Shop" are sadly no longer with us, but these new signs more than make up for the loss of those gems.
Philip K Dick, who predicted it all, would have liked them too.
Someone, somewhere, has decreed that signs outside stores in this town must be trilingual (and colored red). So, fire up the online translation service. Input Chinese characters (themselves loosely translated from Tibetan) and there you are! Nonsense of the first order.
There's a new batch this season that includes the two signs in the photo, plus "Amdo Tibetan Restaurant First Pakistani Grass" and "East Side Shop One Pressure". I checked out the restaurant but the fare in no way lived up to the delights hinted at by the sign.
Some classics of yesteryear, especially "Tibet Ancient Food" and "Auspicous Rabbit Shop" are sadly no longer with us, but these new signs more than make up for the loss of those gems.
Philip K Dick, who predicted it all, would have liked them too.
