Liuzhou Luosifen

[liuzhou]

Here is the video of Zhang Yufei getting excited about Luosifen.

 

She says:

 

"I want to eat Luosifen."

 

Asked why she replies "The taste! The taste is delicious!"

 

 

 

Edited August 10, 2024 by liuzhou (log)

[liuzhou]

Great excitement in Liuzhou the last couple of days. Zhang Yufei, the Olympic swimmer who famously said after the last race of the Paris Olympics that she just wanted to eat Luosifen, paid a 'state visit' to Liuzhou. She has no family connection to the city, instead being from Jiangsu province, north of Shanghai.

 

She was feted by Liuzhou as the hero she is and presented with all sort of awards and gifts. In addition she visited some ethnic minority peoples and dressed up in their costumes to dance and play games with them.

 

She also got her Luosifen. Privately.

 

 

 

 

So, if you want to sample Luosifen at source all you need to do is say so on world-wide television. Oh! And it helps if you win eighteen gold medals, eight silver medals, and seventeen bronze medals by the time you're 26 years old. And hold the record for most Olympic medals for a Chinese athlete.

 

I've eaten my fair share of luosifen, but it has done nothing for my Olympic prowess.

 

Edited September 10, 2024 by liuzhou (log)

[liuzhou]

A journalist friend sent me this today. A list of the top 100 selling agricultural products in China. No. 4 is luosifen. It is also the no. 1 non-tea product.

 

Here is the top 37. I've used my phone's translation app to show you an approximation of the English meaning. It mistranslates luosifen though (as always). Also for some reason it often fails to translate 茶 at all. That is 'tea'.

 

Clearly some translations are gibberish. If you really want to know any, let me know and I'll see if I can do better. 

 

No. 24 is Pomelo Peel; not Agent Orange, the toxic herbicide notoriously used in by the US military in Vietnam as a defoliant in the 60s!. 

 

 

 

[KennethT]

How is the snail powder made?

[liuzhou]

1 hour ago, KennethT said:

How is the snail powder made?

 

Haha. ‘螺蛳 (luó sī) means the type of snail used in the dish, literally 'spiral (river) snail'. 

 

Powder here is the mistranslation. 粉 (fěn) can mean 'powder' but here is an abbreviation for 米粉 (mǐ fěn) which means 'rice flour', which is used to mean that the noodles are made from that.

A correct non-literal but pragmatic translation of luosifen would be 'spiral river snail rice noodles'.

 

 

Edited March 19 by liuzhou (log)