Engrish Brog
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Honey, I think I pushed too many buttons… Photo courtesy of Matt Gentry. Ad found on bus in Weihai, China.

Oddly enough, this was found in West Hollywood California: Photo courtesy of “Salamander”.

Over the years I have received a large number of photos of the classic Chinglish sign “Don’t Fall Down” – found in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. The sign is funny on its own, but everyone has their own unique take on it: The traditional “I was here” photo: To give you an idea [...]

This was posted outside of the entrance to the women’s section at a hot springs bathing facility in Tokyo: Not quite Engrish per se, but I don’t think you are going to bother reading the sign if you are dead drunk! Photo courtesy of Robin Ross.

Submitter Suzie Tombs sent this in with the following note a few years back: I am currently working at ‘Disnney Kindergarten’ in Taiwan. Here’s the outside of the school…   And it takes how long to proof read?

“…and we still can’t get rid of this merchandise!” Photo courtesy of Irfan Kachwalla. Found in Lonavla, India.

This menu is wrong on so many levels making it an instant Engrish classic, but I am afraid that the quality was not good enough for the main page (I would get countless emails and comments claiming it was fake or Photoshopped). Guess that is what the Brog is for… Found at a Korean restaurant [...]

Would pleading help at all? Please! Found in a hostel in Segovia, Spain. Photo courtesy of David Heath.

MItsuoka Motors is a small Japanese auto company which builds modern Japanese cars to resemble British vehicles of the 1950s and 1960s. A few years back, they also produced ‘micro-cars’. This cute Engrish-laden image of the MC-1 micro car was taken from their old English website that sadly no longer exists: Just how small is [...]

From the package of Metal Gear Solid 2 (back in 2002): I was going to put this on the main page, but the file size is kinda big – I didn’t want to shrink it too much to make it unreadable.