Engrish Brog
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Maybe it’s just a typo, but you’d think that a large corporation like Best Buy would have caught something like this…

Photo courtesy of Blake V.

Submitter Inge wrote in:  “I have my back filled with old-style Thai tattoos, and this lady wanted to show me how a good tattoo should look.”

Photo courtesy of Inge Kristiansen.

This hat was spotted on the JR Yamanote Line near Yoyogi in Tokyo Japan. It is not quite Engrish grammatically speaking, but it is quite bizarre. I am almost positive that the hat was purchased in Japan.

Photo courtesy of Levi McLaughlin.

Photos of this sign have been submitted quite a few times over the years - it is in a location at the Great Wall of China that many tourists visit:

I never found the sign ‘front page worthy’, but I thought it worthwhile enough to archive here on the Brog.
Photo courtesy of Peter Traube.

Wonder whether their regular ass gyro is any good…

Found in Paris France. Photo courtesy of Kenneth Chan.

Happy New Year everyone.  The brog portion of of the site gets a bit neglected at the end of the year - combination of being both busy and taking my only vacation. Back to regular posting:
These tissues were found in Carrefour, City Centre in Doha - the capital of the conservative Islamic State of Qatar [...]

I think I finally found the best place to shop…

Photo courtesy of Samantha Tan.

It seems that t-shirt manufacturers in China have gone so far with Engrish that the next step is complete randomness:

Shirt found in Shanghai, China.
Photo courtesy of Kimberly Blodgett.

I received this submission back in February - looks like a “Sterility Hospital” in Beijing is using Steve Martin as a spokesperson for vasectomies. Who knew that his “Cheaper by the Dozen” movies would be an inspiration for so many a Chinese to make themselves sterile…

Photo courtesy of Mark Shaffar.
Sign seen in China.

I received this submission from China recently: