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Holy smokes! We told you guys in our fairly positive review of Al Hilm - The Dream Cafe and Hookah Bar that we would be doing a follow up Engrish post. Well we have a treat for you guys, we are going to go ahead and bestow the title of "Most Engrish in a Restaurant Menu 2009" to the venue. That's right, even though we are only about 3/4ths of the way through the year we feel pretty confident that AL Hilm will win....HANDS DOWN! Check it out....

May we suggest that the owners of Al Hilm give our good friend Joe(y) over at Compound Graphics a call if they want to re-do these terrible menus and special thanks to Hank for the photos.

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Today’s Engrish is brought to you by the most-engrish-having-restaurant-in-jacksonville, Ardens Kafe & Katering in Murray Hill (1650-4 Hamilton Street), serving the best Kountry Kooking in town, including their famous fried ”Kat Fish”. The eatery has been a favorite of Westsiders for many years.

Photo by Mark

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We've got a couple of Engrish pics for you guys all the way from Live Oak, Florida. The first one is a bit surprising since it's obviously a state sign and the second is more of a play on words than an Engrish, "sonrise" instead of sunrise referring to the day Jesus was resurrected from the dead. Thanks to Mark for these.

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We have a special treat for you guys today. A two-fer, if you will. Mark also sent us over a few Engrish-worthy pics from the Ramona Flea Market over on the Westside.

Our first submission is for these quite fetching and extremely affordable "CROPS" sandals.

And the second entry is for "MEMS" jeans. We couldn't figure out if that was a misspelling for "Mens" jeans or "Mom" jeans. You be the judge....

Remember, if any of you peeps are out and about and spot an Engrish entry, just send 'em on over to us and be sure to let us know where and when the entry was spotted. Happy hunting!

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We've received quite a few Engrish submissions throughout last week and decided to just aggregate them all into one big post. Of course, none of them beat our winner of "Most Engrish in a Restaurant Menu 2009" from Al Hilm - The Dream Cafe and Hookah Lounge, but good none-the-less.

First we have a couple of selections sent by our News Room Chief Mark. Johnsons Family Flea Market is having a "Chrstmas in July" sale in September (double whammy), and the Riverside Avondale Preservation Society printed up some Neighborhood Watch "No Tresspassing" signs for last weeks meeting.

Then, sometime staff member, Tom sent over the picture below from The Terrace at Fleming Island Plantation Retirement Home. His grandmother is a resident and often has the pleasure of dining with her companions in the "Dinning Room" there. Of course "dinning" is a word, but we're assuming that this is not what's going on in that room -

din |din|
noun [in sing. ]
a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise : the fans made an awful din.
verb ( dinned , dinning )
1 [ trans. ] ( be dinned into) (of a fact) be instilled in (someone) by constant repetition : the doctrine that has been dinned into all our heads.
2 [ intrans. ] make a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise : the sound dinning in my ears was the telephone ringing.
ORIGIN Old English dyne, dynn (noun), dynian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Old High German tuni (noun) and Old Norse dynr (noun), dynja ‘come rumbling down.’

Finally we have a picture from Jacksonville Confidential reader Kane who was vacationing in Mt. Carmel, Illinois and spotted this very crude "Pakring" sign at the local VFW.

Thanks guys and keep reading and submitting.

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YAY! Two Engrish posts in one day, it's gotta be because of Obama. JC reader Erminda sent us over this perfect example of Engrish from the Blimpie sub shop inside the Hess station on Baymeadows Road. It's a twofer...."Custmer APPRECITION weekly drawing". WOW!

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Today we bring you a whopping 3 Engrish submissions. First up is a "true" engrish, it's from our former staff member Ashley who is in Korea teaching English.

Then there's the one Mark sent over from his travels to Lake City last week.

And finally here's a local submission from Jacksonville Confidential reader Alfred who spotted these parking signs this past weekend at the Cecil Field Airshow.

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It's time for an Engrish round-up. We've been aggregating submissions for about a week now, so here we go....

Jason and Mark were tooling around Atlanta a couple of weeks ago when they spotted this sign for "Crab Langoon" at a China Buffet. Pronounced "Rangoon" by the Asians, it's still spelled wrong.

Joe(y) eyed an error on the draft beer list at European Street in San Marco. "Mony Python".

Faithful reader and multiple Engrish submitter Erminda e-mailed us this gem from a posting on Craigslist. Quite the "Montley Crew". DOUBLE WHAMMY!

The Healthy Bagel Company in Lakewood (1500 University Boulevard) has posted a "No Cash on Premisses" sign to deter robberies, but it didn't deter Linda from spotting the misspelling.

Our final submission is also from Joe(y). Found on the streets of San Francisco, a street performing trumpeter touts his ability to "Perform With a High Degree of Accuacy". Maybe, but he sure can't spell with a high degree of accuracy.

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Today’s Engrish lesson is brought to you by the Jacksonville Sharks and their ”SOUVINER SODA REFILLS” and Fuji Sushi’s delicious ”Brow Rice” made from real animal brows.

Thanks to David and Mark for these submissions.

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We spotted a local Engrish worthy post at last weeks staff meeting/Birthday party at Koja Sushi......

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A few staff members wanted to pop in to Cilantro (Indian Cuisine) (9825 - 6 San Jose Blvd.) in Mandarin on Saturday to try it out because we've heard such wonderful things about the restaurant. However, to our dismay, the eatery is currently "close for renovation", but you know we didn't leave empty handed. The owners were nice enough to provide us with a little Engrish. Check it!

Engrish Corrected

It looks like we’ve started a trend, according to NPR some awesome guy named Jeff Deck and his friend Ben traveled around the country spotting and correcting Engrish…

”Incensed by a "no tresspassing" sign, Jeff Deck launched a cross-country trip to right grammatical wrongs. He enlisted a friend, Benjamin D. Herson, and together they got to work erasing errant quotation marks, rectifying misspellings and cutting unnecessary possessive apostrophes. The Great Typo Hunt is the story of their crusade. In 2 1/2 months, Herson and Deck traveled the perimeter of the country, exploring towns and cities in search of typos. They found 437 typos, and were able to correct more than half of them. Some typos were uncorrectable -- out of the team's reach, or, as Deck tells NPR's Tony Cox, requiring tools and materials that weren't included in his "typo correction kit."

Click Here to read our (adorable) hero’s full story.

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It's been a long time Engrish. Avid JC reader Jessica sent in this gem from O'Brothers here in Riverside. The economy sucks right now and tons of people are looking for jobs, they're hiring "proffesional" bartenders. Apply within.

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Here's a lil bit of Christmas Engrish for you guys all the way from classy Amelia Island. Michael snagged this photo of a sign in a dry cleaners' window this morning. You can barely see the sign due to the reflection but it states "We COLSE Christmas Eve New Year Eve 3:00PM".

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Faithful JC reader JB submitted his very first Engrish entry to us over the weekend. It comes straight from The Chicken House in Callahan. We haven't had the pleasure of eating at the Chicken House before but we hear wonderful things about the place. We will definitely have to make a point to stop in one day for some crispy fried chicken and an Orange "CreamCYCLE" Cake. YUM!

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There's something not quite right about this health warning that Joe(y) noticed in the Koja Sushi menu during last nights staff meeting. Can you guys see the engrish in this?

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Whoa! Someone on Ernest Street in Riverside either really hates transsexuals or they are terrible at spelling (Engrish) TRESSPASSING. You be the judge, just be sure to not ”TRANSPASS” or dump (we’re thinking dog of doom) on their property.

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Yet another Chinese restaurant has opened in San Marco. Panda Cuisine (right next to La Nopalera) is currently celebrating its "Grant Openning" with an AMAZING $5.00 Lunch Special and some Engrish too. Thanks for sending this pic in Dwayne.

Engrish - Corrected

The peeps over at European Street on Park Street are proud owners of a corrected banner that was formerly the subject on an Engrish blog. Good Job guys, nice work!

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We also wanted to mention that the contest for a trip to Munich, Germany is still going on. Just drop in, buy a Franziskaner beer, and get a free glass and 1 entry form for the contest.

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Jacksonville Confidential reader Sarah saw this gleaming example of Engrish at Fuji Sushi in Baymeadows (10899 Baymeadows Rd) near 9A. ”Push the Brid” to get your toothpick. We have to admit, that contraption is pretty darn cute; do they have any for sale? (You know they do, along with Fancy Chopsticks, Hello Kitty Coin Banks, and Plastic Buddhas)