Humourous Signs, China
The meaning is rarely in doubt but the translation leaves a lot to be desired. A collection of humourous signs encountered on a recent trip to China.
China 2015
Recapping a sixth visit to mainland China – including the capital Beijing & the two largest cities in the northeastern & northwestern extremes of the country, Harbin & Urumqi respectively – en route to pastures new in Kazakhstan & Central Asia.
Verona Prattville pushkar Saint Martin Zugdidi Cayman Islands Singapore Pisa New Brunswick Scandinavia Meknes Mestia Machu Picchu Annapolis Veneto United Kingdom Brainerd Hungary Montanita Nacoochee Village mysore Ait Benhaddou beijing Scotland Bremen Spain Bar Harbor St. Lucia Skye Whangarei Philippines Antarctica Cleveland Lexington Aysen Gansbaai Georgia Delaware Leigh Nikko Teotihuacan Trujillo Jebel Toubkal West Virginia Budva Mobile Blugaria Chesapeake Midelt Stanstead UAE Chandigarh Ica kosovo New York City Longyearbyen Mtskheta vancouver coba Montana Syria utila Puerto Villamil Riga waikiki Ghorepani Isla de la Ometepe Shenandoah Tennessee Puerto Rico Budapest Australia Campobello Island Volubilis Iguazu Falls Monticello Aspen Negril Ocean City Salina Vancouver Island Kyoto Cornelia tibet Deception Island South Ossetia hilo Cape Reinga Atlantic City Jeju Niagara borneo Uyuni Mexico British Columbia Suwon Annapurna boston India flores Memphis Nebraska Hawaii Varadero Normandy karnataka Llandudno Khiva jaco Antarctic Peninsula bali Iberia Northland Maine Berlin Ancud Rhode Island varanasi Billings New Church Tongariro Golmud Ecuador Salt Lake City Rome Hiroshima Willemstad El Calafate Durango Nuweiba Gori South America Yazoo City Jordan Cooperstown Pompeii Medellin Appalachia Tegucigalpa Quebec City ericeira Santa Roas de Copan unawatuna Ontario Asuncion Madison Nizhny Novgorod Burdine Parikia Shigatse Christchurch ella boquete Edinburgh Dorasan New Mexico Falmouth punjab shanghai Netherlands Antilles caye caulker Fort William key west Marbella cameron highlands Kodari kenai peninsula vizhinjam Ionian Islands Santa Rosa de Copan Cetinje Luquillo Serbia Alpine moscow Concepción de Ataco ipoh Montreal Dandong Jefferson Costa Rica Franschhoek Imjingak Venice Owensboro Southeast Asia Galax Lombardy Como Bluffs England orange walk tulum Morocco anchorage bay islands Romania Providence South Dakota Damascus California Erlian Woodstock Crow Agency Perast Colleville Sur Mer rajasthan Sint Maarten / Saint Martin China & Tibet Kuala Lumpur Helen Shakhunya Teec Nos Pos John O'Groats Laramie queensland Asheville Cuenca Hatch Honolulu Birmingham Vilnius New Zealand - South Island Juayua uxmal Sinai South Shetland Islands New York Cienfuegos Aleppo Datong Philadelphia Roanoke Island Perm The Cyclades Dades Gorge Pula Intercourse Hatteras Island Mount Cook Srebrenica Lancaster Guangzhou Estonia Ipiales Puno Mystras Los Angeles Lake Titicaca Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) South Africa Santa Marta Tupelo Hong Kong Williamsburg Urumqi lisbon Belgium San Martin de los Andes French Antilles Nanning Listvyanka the big island Tallahassee Cholpon-Ata Rosario Indiana Brussels Japan Harbin Santiago Trinidad & Tobago Erie Ushuaia Maharashtra Uzbekistan Lauterbrunnen Atlanta Alabama Northern Ireland Buenos Aires Switzerland Vatican City Missouri Estes Park Copacabana Indianapolis Montevideo Trinidad Jenkins Belgrade tijuana oslo Pyongyang Puerto Rio Tranquilo Torrington Abu Dhabi Fort Yates St. Louis Coyhaique Patagonia hana Naples kerala Guilin Sarajevo Dead Sea Mandeville busan Jamaica Bolivia Scottsbluff Galapagos Islands chengdu Kuwait Santiago Atitlan Prague Dijon Clarksdale Dyess Chefchaouen Lake George Myrtle Beach Grand Cayman Yekaterinburg Santa Clara las vegas Perito Moreno Delft kollam ABC Islands Flanders seward baltimore chiang rai Heartland Tirana Essex Beaver Dam Greymouth Plovdiv Catalonia Illinois Czech Republic Finland Muriwai Beach Hyden ulan bator Aqaba Barentsburg The Balkans Peloponnese penang Alausi Knoxville Hora dubai Sofia Dahab miami Belize City guadalajara Hispaniola Littleton Canyon Village ataco Minneapolis Central America Toronto Vietnam Fox Glacier Bodie Island Zagreb Tivat Kyllini Bucharest Upstate New York North Dakota Curacao Maracaibo Ljubljana Milan Monte Carlo Guatemala Tallinn Aviemore Puerto Varas Twin Lakes suchitoto Tipperary San Juan Del Sur Lago De Yojoa Mykonos Panjim Veliko Tarnovo Macedonia Tuymen Gracanica New Haven Stirling El Salvador Gettysburg Wilmington Sweden Bosnia and Herzegovina Bishkek kandy Burlington Hartland Overberg Outer Banks Colorado Sao Paulo Dubrovnik Popayan Ingapirca Central Asia Paros Dominican Republic Ireland St Paul Quito north car Isla Isabela New England Montenegro Merzouga Fengdu Iowa Tobolsk Laganas Lesser Antilles South Carolina Cortez Ocho Rios Vicksburg Chiloe san salvador Tetouan Kotor Punta Cana Xian Panmunjom Reykjavik Arkansas Paris Florida Omaha Giza Todra Gorge Vík í Mýrdal maui Franconia Thailand chiang mai Leadville Lhasa Tekapo Zhangmu Pristina Alliance North Korea Krasnoyarsk Virpazar Baltic States Santorini Loja Bogota Kota Kinabalu Siem Reap Mississippi Delta Amsterdam ubud goa Kathmandu Kazakhstan Cheyenne North Africa solola South Korea Nicaragua Palestine Lima Massachusetts La Paz North Macedonia Shelly Beach colombo Gradil Mostar Cork Connecticut Macau Indian Subcontinent The Caribbean / West Indies Belize Piura Danang Barre sydney delhi Garden City Sandy Hook Kingston Page Soufriere Kolkata / Calcutta Dunedin kuta Manteo Cusco Andalusia Kona Tena Rhineland merida Rugby Italy Selma Burwell Tingri Hoi An Uruguay Marigot Santo Domingo East Asia Gyeongju New Orleans Istanbul Invercargill Burgundy Mongolia Cartagena El Alamein Pucon Wisconsin Cannes galle Copan Ruinas Bariloche utah Sepilok Brian Head Deadwood George Town chetumal Custer Kleinbaai Ilha de Santa Catarina Angkor Madrid New Hampshire Pensacola Arabia Hyannis Indonesia Cooke City lamanai Andijon Cape May santa ana Oman Amman san diego Montego Bay Albania Puerto Natales Torres Del Paine Sneedville Gibraltar Delos Cordell Muine St Cloud Er Rachidia krabi Sunauli Noosa El Jadida Bloubergstrand Friendship Highway Colonia del Sacramento Krakow Jerusalem Quebec Ouarzazate Netherlands Lewisburg Jackson Queenstown Iceland sunshine coast Gyantse Bruges Boracay Cape Cod Camaguey Wadi Musa Saint Petersburg Durres Chichicastenango Easter Island New Jersey Tbilisi Prishina stockholm North Carolina Matauri Bay copenhagen Malaga yangshou antigua Buford Olympia Nara Kyrgyzstan Ullapool New Zealand - North Island Hama Drake Passage Saint Stephen Kobe Front Royal Auschwitz/Birkenau Louisiana Zakynthos Monaco Alaska Lincoln Rockfish Gap Port Waikato Cote d'Azur / French Riviera Cape Town new south wales Ashland Kijong-dong / Propaganda Village Chiclayo Coeburn tikal Lithuania Skopje Hanoi Mexico City Walker Meridian Bismarck Stepantsminda/Kazbegi Philipsburg Western Cape casablanca Ticonderoga Punta Arenas Naushki Banos Puerto Ayora Crown Point Fort Payne Tokyo amritsar Palolem Rio de Janeiro Campania Wellington Polynesia Andros New Zealand Vermont Novosibirisk Tyumen Valparaiso mafra Bentonia Chongqing tomsk Rissani alleppey oahu Florianopolis Slovenia managua Fenwick Island Fajardo Arizona West Yellowstone Delmarva Wadi Rum Moulay Idriss Israel Algeciras Castro Luxor Jersey Shore Trieste Mumbai/Bombay Grand Forks London Bran Greater Antilles Germany anjuna Yongin Saint Lucia Caucasus Lubec Adirondacks Barcelona Dayton Kilkenny Sligo Washington D.C. copan West Indies brisbane Caleta Tortel Svalbard Nevada Kayenta Portugal Manuel Antonio Westport Samarkand Rotorua Jacmel Montville Bloomington Tinos west bengal jodhpur San Jose Australasia Navajo Nation Egypt Ghandruk Slovakia Provincetown Highland Lake Ohrid seattle Alexandria Galapagos cancun Poland Erg Chebbi Jackson Hole langkawi irkutsk Bukhara Salta Colonial Williamsburg Greece Potosi Trakai Antrim Rincon Sint Maarten North America Medicine Bow Sucre Guiyang San Juan Hue Spitsbergen Panajachel Beulah siberia Granby Guanajuato Michigan Castries Margate Pyramiden Washington L'Agulhas Cologne Paju Porto Montenegro Sinuiju wicklow Istria Peninsula Middle East Argentina Maynardville Syracuse Taupo Cherbourg Sparta porto leon Yerevan Clare Tuscany Brazil hohhot Gangnam vladimir Wyoming Osh Dominica seoul Croatia Haiti Jungfrau Norway Peru Porto Alegre Sabah Puerto Lopez Mississippi Warwick Trinidad and Tobago Cairo Alaverdi El Chalten Abkhazia Lockerbie Nashville Essaouira Milford Sound Rosine Bangkok Costa del Sol helsinki Logan France Bethlehem Austria Panama City Port of Spain Panama Foz do Iguacu Pennsylvania Grand Lake Toledo Kansas City Cannon Ball Maryland Lori Bluegrass Zante Roseau fort cochin Montgomery Malaysia melbourne Charlottesville Richmond Ciudad del Este Wanaka Jacksonville Petra Podgorica Greenfield Nasca Lahaina Savannah Bratislava Uttar Pradesh Oia Sri Lanka Paraguay Bulgaria Eastport Havana byron bay Te Anu Jamestown Colombia Cordoba Russia san francisco Antwerp dublin Kerry Denmark leshan Yichang Hospet The Arctic Marrakesh Hout Bay Appalachians Vienna Galway Fes Cuba Olive Hill Portland Madaba Transylvania Chelsea Mendoza Brasov Elim Caen Lewes Oregon agra Cap-Haitien Cape of Good Hope Cochrane Glasgow Ping An Donegal Rio Gallegos Arlington Macclenny Virginia Armenia Minnesota Charleston Turkey El Chaupi Mount Sinai Latvia The Catlins Tashkent Ohrid Venezuela Prescott Chile Tierra del Fuego Slyudyanka Panguitch Nepal Kentucky Muscat Nags Head Nice Warsaw Treasure Beach Montpelier Mesoamerica bundi Hermanus Bern Port-au-Prince Tangier Ghent Imlil Rapa Nui Florence Nuwera Eliya kovalam granada Chicago Suez USA Idaho Almaty Stellenbosch Astana Himeji Canada Bird in Hand Guayaquil Huaraz Pokhara Spalding Cambodia hampi Kill Devil Hills Emei Shan homer Mayo Simon's Town Bemidji China Ohio Stepantsminda Honduras victoria Lakota yucatan