Ok, this is kind of silly, but I got a kick out of it. Here's a simple name generator for Chinese restaurants. It's linked from a blog
called Asymptomatic.net and the little intro basically says it all: "This is
a stupid PHP program that creates names for Chinese restaurants." Tell it how many names you want and there you go:
Golden Pearl, Happy Dragon, Lotus Palace, etc. Fun, for a little while at least.Naming Chinese restaurants
Ok, this is kind of silly, but I got a kick out of it. Here's a simple name generator for Chinese restaurants. It's linked from a blog
called Asymptomatic.net and the little intro basically says it all: "This is
a stupid PHP program that creates names for Chinese restaurants." Tell it how many names you want and there you go:
Golden Pearl, Happy Dragon, Lotus Palace, etc. Fun, for a little while at least.Comments [7]
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11-12-2006 @ 1:52PM
Rainey Smith said...
There used to be one in the greater LA area called Poo Ping Palace. ...and this was some years ago so I guess they came up with it without the use of such a useful generator.
21-12-2006 @ 3:23PM
Shad Genki said...
There's something wrong with this generator. China China is the worst name for a Chinese restaurant, ever.
3Funny story about chinese restaurant names. I'd always wondered where they got their names from, and why; turns out that a lot of different families trying to open up restaurants will use the same lawyer. Usually it's a language barrier/cultural trust reason, and the lawyer will make up names for them when filing a business application for the family. So when you see a lot of restaurants in your city named Golden Lotus, Happy Lotus, Golden Happiness, etc, it's usually the same lawyer who filed for all those families.
41-12-2006 @ 3:57PM
Brian K. White said...
As the author of the original Random Chinese Restaurant Generator I'm deeply offended a better resource was not considered.
Let's make it up to the world... oh, and there's also a Mexican Restaurant Generator on there too. (Also Italian, but it isn't as good.)
http://glossynews.com/funnyhitman/chinese.htm
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