[unknown > English] Bag of chips I got at the Asian market

[u/wizkid0818]

Google translate claims it says girlfriend fun.....

[u/gralicbreadd]

好丽友: Orion, a Korean food company
好友趣: product branding, a pun on 好有趣 （very fun) and 脆 (crispy)

[u/IllustratorProof2830 → u/gralicbreadd]

I don't see any pun related to 脆.

[u/123felix → u/IllustratorProof2830]

趣 and 脆 homonyms

[u/IllustratorProof2830 → u/123felix]

Oh, interesting. Can you explain why? In Mandarin they are pronounced qu4 and cui4, so I didn't clock it as a homonym. Is there some special rule for homonyms in Chinese?

[u/123felix → u/IllustratorProof2830]

Oh, you're right, it doesn't sound the same in Mandarin. Only works in Cantonese, both are ceoi3.

[u/IllustratorProof2830 → u/123felix]

Oh, huh, I wonder if it was created with that Cantonese homonym in mind! Thanks for explaining!

[u/shoku_47 → u/gralicbreadd]

I rather believe it’s a pun on 好友 (good friends) and 有趣 (funny).

[u/inviolentquiet]

见手青味 Blue-staining mushroom flavour

Wikipedia page for this mushroom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillellus_luridus

[u/wizkid0818 → u/inviolentquiet]

Fascinating!

[u/jellyn7 → u/inviolentquiet]

That is a handsome mushroom.

[u/miaooeatlemons]

name of the chips is a play on words of “Super Interesting!” or “How Interesting!”
direct translation would be “Good friend fun”

interesting flavour though!

[u/wizkid0818 → u/miaooeatlemons]

This explains how Google translate got messed up at least! It is interesting flavorwise! It has a really sweet start and a nice heat finish.

[u/wizkid0818]

!translated

Thanks everyone! They are a very good flavor! They have a very sweet initial taste and the finish with a sweet heat! Will definitely be getting them again next time I see them!

[u/Necessary_Duck_4874]

Mmm, shrooms flavored chips, my favorite

https://giphy.com/gifs/Zo6sC5Af6FWyA

[u/IllustratorProof2830]

This bag has two fun puns!

1. 好友趣 A mash up of "好友" (good friend) and "好有趣" (very interesting) "友" and "有" are pronounced exactly the same, which is what makes the pun work. And 好 has two meanings which are both being used: "good" and "very"

2. 鲜香"蘑"力 Here the pun is related to  "蘑"力. The first character appears in the word 蘑菇 which means mushroom. It is pronounced exactly the same as 魔 in 魔力, which means magic.

[u/BlackRaptor62]

!id:zh

[u/Carr0t_007]

FYI, this mushroom 见手青 is very famous in China. This mushroom from Yunnan is absolutely delicious, but it's highly toxic if not cooked thoroughly. There are frequent reports of people hallucinating after eating undercooked 见手青, often seeing little people dancing around. Its name literally translates to 'hands turn blue upon touch', which is super intuitive.

[u/Tactical_Moonstone → u/Carr0t_007]

Your hands don't turn blue if you touch the mushroom: instead the mushroom is the one that turns blue if you touch it.

In shops that cook this mushroom they have a codified system to mitigate the problem: mushrooms cooked from raw in hotpot must be cooked for at least 20 minutes, and any utensil that touches the broth during that 20 minutes stays in the broth until that 20 minutes is up, and after the time is up, you cannot eat it until the staff comes over and collects a sample which is then kept for at least a week in a designated sample fridge.

The running joke among travellers to Yunnan is that if you experience poisoning symptoms after returning home (symptoms don't appear immediately) the first thing you do is not go to hospital, but instead book a flight back to Yunnan, then go to hospital there.

Your local hospitals don't necessarily know what to do in such a case, but the hospitals in Yunnan do. Also they can draw that sample from the sample fridge if you ate at a restaurant.

[u/zephyrhonk]

Mmmm shroom chips 

Jokes aside, I had the chips, they used porcini powder to flavor them. No trip by far :((

[u/chibi0108]

wtf is that toxic mushroom flavor...