The menu references to juicy anatomical maladies makes it sound as if Alan has stumbled on a 5-element TCM cookery.

I would also like to know what is U-Toy Vegetable? Or even just what is U-Toy?

For the first couple months, the dish had a pretty basic sauce that most people agreed was a little spare. Later, one of the cooks expanded it to be a little thicker and more flavorful. Several other employees filled out the recipe until customers felt that it was pretty good. Since then, the cooks have begun bickering endlessly over whether the recipe should use 1 teaspoon of brown sugar or 0.9 teaspoons, and air their grievances in lengthy notes posted up inside the kitchen.

A few of the more discriminating customers began to notice that the flavor of the sauce varied slightly each night, as cooks removed each other's changes and added their own back in. Finally, after waiters began intentionally sabotaging the recipe to include "1 tablespoon bear semen," the owners fixed the recipe to its latest revision (sans any obvious vandalism) and ordered the cooks to submit all proposed changes in writing.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the flavor of Wikipedia.

I will be sorely disappointed if Smashville does not come up with a witty one liner for this one.

Every bite is a little bit different. Sometimes, a bite will disappear and you'll be redirected to a non-related bite.

Sometimes the beef turns into a twelve year old boy screaming about genitalia, but if you wait thirty seconds, it'll become beef again.

I can't wait for Burger King to put those descriptions on its menu. Whopper - All beef patty. Good for clogging arteries and increasing sodium levels. Yeah, makes me want to see their new design.

Anyone else find it suspicious that the phone numbers on the menu don't actually work?

Where is the "Cream of Sum Yung Goy"...?

Update: I called Green Tea in Newton MA (Linked from greentea framingham's site), apparently GreenTea Framingham has been closed for a year!!!

@nybiker: Looks like this menu needs a disambiguation page.

@nybiker: Is that like a U-Boat?

"Tangerine peals". Hee hee.

[Citation Needed]

I'm trying to figure out how that could have happened, and I can't come up with anything.

Hmm what will happen if you take a bite of the beef brisket and a bite of spam at the same time?

@Wuhao: +1

Perhaps this is a translation error. Imagine an email conversation such as this:

Parent: The new menu looks good, but I can't figure out a good English translation for . Ideas?

Child: Did you try Wikipedia?

Parent: Thanks, I'll use that.

@Taed: From my experience, the adult would leave the technical mumbo jumbo to the kid.

I think I know how this happened. If you're typing in Word sometimes, if you start typing a word, it will pull up something from your clipboard and paste it if you hit enter.

So perhaps "wikipedia" was pasted accidentally from "whiskey" flavor or something.

The Chinese name of that dish says "花椒" flavor. 花椒, which is from a number of species in the genus Zanthoxylum, is very often simply translated as "peppercorn" but is actually not the thing as the peppercorn you can find in any grocery store in US.

The proper English name of 花椒 should be "Sichuan pepper".

@Taed: This gag is too old to even be an urban legend. In the joke, it did, in fact, happen exactly the way you explained, except the parent was "an old Chinaman" and the child was "his college-educated son," and the dish was "Chicken in Dictionary sauce."

@Lucky225: Darn, I was looking forward to going there for Beef Brisket in Wikipedia Flavor tomorrow.

The generic Szechuan place around the corner from my house has many dishes that come, according to the menu, "with fungus..." Although it is easy to tell their fungi come from a can :(

@Wuhao: Some people in this world would definitely pay extra for the bear semen.

@nybiker: U-Toy is an odd, mangled spelling for "yu choy", which is a leafy green vegetable common in Cantonese cuisine. It is delicious when steamed with a bit of sesame oil and garlic or when stir-fried.

There's a picture and some more information here: [www.chinesevegetables.co.uk]

@nybiker: I believe they were trying to transliterate "yau choy." This is a common and popular leafy green used in Asian cooking (such as southern Chinese/Cantonese, my background). A semi-literal translation in Cantonese is "oil bearing greens" which makes sense in light of the fact that this is a variety of rapeseed, the plant from which canola oil is obtained. The link to the full menu for the Green Tea II restaurant describes the cuisine as "Hong Kong..."cuisine. which jives with the southern Chinese connection. Some of their dishes actually sound quite yummy.

@Bob Lu: Woohoo! Someone comes along with actual facts! Thank you.

That looks like the kind of thing you'd see on [www.engrishfunny.com]

I know that I've used Wikipedia to translate nouns. For example, "hash" is a symbol, a drug, a food, a math function, etc; my dictionary may not have all of these, and in the small print may not give me enough information to tell the difference in the foreign translations... So, I can find the right article in the English WP and then hope there's a link to my target language.... So, maybe this is how it went:

Chinese writer: How does XXX translate into English?

Chinese translator: It looks like it's called Beef Brisket in Wikipedia.

Chinese writer: Thank you... [writing down "Beef Brisket in Wikipedia"]

@VivaciousD: What, there wasn't a wikipedia-flavored page you could link to?

@Wuhao: You win the internet! I should warn you, though, that it is very hard to clean.

@bhaughey: I know people who think sabotaging a co-worker's Autocorrect function in this manner is a great prank.

That reminds me of another Chinese restaurant. They wanted an English banner, so they put their Chinese name into an online translator. They ended up naming the restaurant "Translate Server Error."

[adweek.blogs.com]

@mythago: It's all the bear semen.

I'm going to guess this means that there are little nuggets of fresh ingredients in there, but it's mostly made of crap.

@jaredgrubb: Yeah that actually make sense.

There's a good chance that while you're eating your beef brisket, one of the cooks will walk up to your table and throw a piece of cow crap in your dish. It's relatively easy to remove, but chances are it'll happen again a few minutes after you remove it.

Also, some of the ingredients may be from unreliable sources. Just shout "CITATION NEEDED" if the cook tells you he got the ginger from his cousin's farm.

I always find the NPOV flavor to be quite bland.

@Wuhao: I <3 you.

@mythago: Thanks for the tip!

This is the second Chinese menu I've seen with Wikipedia mentioned in it. I thought it was funny and printed it out and stuck it on my door with all the other weird stuff I find.

Sadly I can't seem to find the image again to upload or link.

@Wuhao: i need read no further. the thread ends with Wuhao. =)

@radleyas: I agree. I don't know what it's doing here to be honest. Slow news day???

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@MostlyHarmless_Under Influenza: I speedy tagged it under A7 brisket.

@Wuhao: Well-played, sir! Or ma'am. ;)

Also, if you send the dish back more than 3 times in a 24 hour period, you are temporarily banned from the restaurant.

Wikipedia flavor is where everyone in the kitchen has touched the food, but not one of them was a cook.