（雅思課外精讀）為什么國外的中餐館總是千篇一律

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Why Do Chinese Restaurants Have Such Similar Names?

為什么中餐館的名字都如此相似？

1. Chinese restaurants are ubiquitous across America from big cities to suburban strip malls to dusty back roads, to highway gas stations. They are frequently the heart of small towns. They offer up a familiar menu of comfort food, but also similar-sounding names. And thats no accident. Even though the majority of the 50,000 Chinese restaurants in the United States are not large chain franchises but family-owned mom-and-pop shops.

從美國的大城市到郊區(qū)的購物中心，從塵土飛揚的鄉(xiāng)間小路到高速公路的加油站，中國餐館隨處可見。它們是小城鎮(zhèn)的心臟，這些中餐館有讓人熟知的菜單，餐館名字聽起來也很相似，這并非偶然。在美國有5萬家中餐館，它們大多都不是連鎖經(jīng)營，家庭經(jīng)營的夫妻店才是主流。

2. Familiarity is one of their biggest selling points, says Cedric Yeh, who as project head of the Sweet and Sour Initiative at the National Museum of American History, studies Chinese foodways and helped put together a 2011 exhibition on Chinese food in America at the museum.

美國國家歷史博物館酸甜計劃項目負責人塞德里克葉(Cedric Yeh)說，知名度是它們最大的賣點之一。他一直致力于研究中國美食，2011年在美國舉辦的中國美食展覽就是在他的幫助下完成的。

3. Many Chinese restaurant names are chosen for their auspiciousnessout of the owners desire for success. They include words like golden, fortune, luck and garden. In Mandarin, garden is yuan, a homophone for money.

許多中餐店取名字都是圖個吉利，這主要是因為老板想要取得成功。中餐店的名字中一般都有像黃金，財富，好運和園這樣的詞，在普通話中，園通元，是錢的意思。

4. The word play, says Yeh, is usually lost on American diners. To Americans, some names may make no sense or translate in a funny way, says Yeh, whose parents had a Chinese restaurant named Jade Inn in Springfield, Massachusetts, when he was younger.

葉說，美國食客通常不會注意到這種文字游戲。對美國人來說，有些名字完全不知所云，翻譯成英文還很滑稽。葉先生小時候，他父母在馬薩諸塞州的斯普林菲爾德開了一家叫做Jade Inn(翡翠客棧)的中餐館。

5. One of the words that means good fortune in Cantonese is spelled most unfortunately fuk. Restaurants incorporating that word have gotten lots of attention, especially in the social media era, says Yeh. I dont think they ever stopped and thought about why that might attract attention, says Yeh.

在廣東話中，好運即為福。葉說，名字中帶有這個字的餐館受到大量關(guān)注，尤其是在這個社交媒體時代。葉說,我認為人們從來沒有想過為什么這樣的名字會引人關(guān)注。

6. An online Chinese Restaurant Name Generator pokes playful fun at the stew of name possibilities, spitting out Goose Oriental, Mandarin Wall, #1 Tso, and Fortune New Dynasty. Auspicious, perhaps, but maybe not the catchiest.

一個在線中餐館取名網(wǎng)站生成了比如東方鵝，文化墻， 左宗鋒和財富新王朝這樣滑稽的名字。這些名字中可能大有吉兆，但是并不那么吸引人。

7. But Chinese restaurant names are packed with significance to Chinese people. Take Fragrant Harborthe name for Hong Kong, says Andrew Coe, a Brooklyn-based author of Chop Suey, A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States. Chinese people would understand that its a Hong Kong-style restaurant, he says.

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