I Thought of This Branch at Lunch

Speaking of something wrong with a menu. What is wrong with this menu?

Drunks and scum.

with three delicious what?

I thought drunks and scum was describing the clientele

I never even noticed "three delicious" when I took the picture when my kids pointed out there was scum on the menu. It is Chinglish at a Chinese restaurant in Toledo, Spain. There is nothing more beyond "three delicious". This is the complete menu on a board outside of the restaurant. My best guess of "three delicious" is the literal translation of the Chinese "三鲜", i.e. three delicious ingredients. It could be the combination of anything.

Needless to say we did not eat there. It is sacreligious to eat Chinese food in Spain. We also know the food will not be good.

It was in January no drunks or scum were to be found in Toledo. But that's a good one.

":Three delicious" seems to show up a lot on Chinese menus, but the meaning is variable.

A combination of three fine basic ingredients: jumbo shrimp, beef & chicken exquisitely flavored with Chinese vegetables and brown sauce.

(That seems to the standard in the US, the exact language showing up in a number of places that don't seem to be a chain.)

Shanghai Three Delicious Pot (Combination of egg, smoked fish, smoked pork slices, bamboo slices and Chinese cabbage)

Three Delicious
pork, chicken, beef, chinese veg. beby corn, straw mushroom w. special sauce.

There's also Three Delicious Soup, with chicken, mushrooms, and bamboo shoots.

Lol....What's "Chicken Cha-Cha"?

It's Chicken Sha Cha.

Entirely coincidentally, "Cha-Sha" is the Tibetan word for chicken (on a menu, i.e. chicken meat.

veal/beef = lang-sha
lamb = lug-sha
yak = yag-sha
pork = phak-sha
chicken = cha-sha
fish = nya-sha
dried meat = sha-kam

There is fish in Tibet?

I'm with #10. Offering a $5 dollar meal and proposing to charge $3 for a glass of water is definitely weird. I'm not familiar with the US lunchtime restaurant market, but I find it hard to imagine that those who seek out the former will be interested in the latter.

Is a $5 main course outstandingly cheap (as it would be here)?

Edited by: fear_rua

Yeah, They're a high end restaurant so 5 bucks is cheap. You don't have to get a drink though. They'll give you a glass of water for free. I think they're trying to compete with Subway and the "5.00 foot longs"