"restaurant menus" news and stories

Here's an odd story from a restaurant in Beijing. Look at the photo above. Notice one of the choices? Mmmm...stir-fried Wikipedia, with pimentos!

That's what's on the menu at a restaurant Jim Benson went to. He surmises that when the restaurant was coming up with the menu, they needed info on an ingredient in the dish and one said to "look it up in Wikipedia" and this is the result. It was found on the menu of another place too.

Now, who's up for some Craigslist smothered in onions?

[via Boing Boing]

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