The Chinese Walmart is a beautiful thing. You can buy a wide variety of products ranging from everyday items such as soap and toilet paper, to not-so-everyday items such as a box of dried sea cucumbers that you're supposed to add to various foods and/or drinks that apparently costs 7,000 yuan (over $1000). I know, it's crazy.
There are also so many products with Chinglish on them that I think I have enough Chinglish of the Week material for the next ten years.
But none of the other Chinglish phrases that I will ever find in the Chinese Walmart will compare to this T-shirt I found on the clearance rack:
If you guessed that the last line of that T-shirt was going read "Edward Scissorhands" I will buy you one box of dried sea cucumbers.
The thing that caught my eye when I grabbed it from the rack was the word "Miserable" because I thought to myself, "Boy, even for all the crazy Chinglish I see on T-shirts in Beijing I've never seen one with such a depressing word." Little did I know what was awaiting me with the last line.
(Also, if you missed it, the letters in black read: "Fairy Tales About Love And HumaM Kature." And I'm guessing the top two words are in a different language. But maybe not.)
So this post is dedicated to you, Mr. Scissorhands.
How miserable, aestheticism, sincere, and pure it is that China has remembered your 21-year-old fairy-tale.
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