Naming Chinese restaurants

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Jan 12th 2006 @ 1:35PM

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.

Filed Under: Chefs & Restaurants, Restaurants
Tags: chinese restaurant names, ChineseRestaurantNames, name generator, php program

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1-12-2006 @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.
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1-12-2006 @3:23PM Shad Genki said... There's something wrong with this generator. China China is the worst name for a Chinese restaurant, ever.
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1-12-2006 @3:37PM Lai said... Funny 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.
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1-12-2006 @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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1-18-2006 @9:46AM Allison said... That Chinese Restaurant Name Generator is terrible. I wrote one several years back that actually generates things that sound like restaurant names:
Chinese Restaurant Name Generator
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