Humorous ethnic restaurant names

In downtown San Jose, there is a Vietnamese restaurant named Duc Phuc (probably pronounced “dook fook”, for all I know).

Also a Chinese restaurant named Tru Chow.

Here there’s a Chinese place called the “Fish Shrimp House”.

That’s it.
Just the “Fish Shrimp House”.

Always cracks me up.

Seems they’re a little short on creativity!

My friend and I always wondered if there was a restaurant called the “Pho King”…

I did a search Google,and it looks like there are plenty!

Hee hee.

The nicest Japanese restaurant in Boston is named Fugakyu.

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/food/99/01/14/FUGAKYU.html

There was once a Chinese place in Kenner, LA (suburb of New Orleans) named Kung Food. It’s still there, but has undergone several name changes in the intervening decade.

We have the Happy All Chinese Restaurant, as well as the Ha Ha.

I guess you had to be there.

There’s a Japanese restaurant in Nashville named the Kitsune.

A “kitsune” is a Japanese bad-luck fox spirit.

Why they’d name it that…?

It’s like calling a fast-food stand “Bad Luck Burgers” or “Walk Under A Ladder Pizza”. :confused:

In Haifa, Israel there is a cafe called GLOP. I have a photo of it.

I used to work at a Kosher Chinese restaurant called “Mit Su Yun”. (Sounds like a Chinese word, but is actually Hebrew for “Excellent”.)

I was alerted to a resturaunt in Conneticut sometime back that had to change it’s name.

It used to be known as C-O-Jones and served Mexican food.
Once the city figured out what the sign said (cojones), they were talked into changing it to “The Mexican Resturaunt”

On Route 4 in Elmwood Park, NJ there is (as far as I know, it’s been about 5 years since I’ve been there) a Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet style restaurant called The Pu Pu Platter.

Obviously the “butt” of many jokes.

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A few blocks from where I work is the “Cat and Cleaver” restaurant.

In Chinatown here there is “Hung Phat”

teehee

There used to be a Chinese restaurant here named “U82 Much.”

There’s a Turkish restaurant nearby whose name is “Aquarium.” Not so much an amusing name, but I always found it rather unsavory.

I thought kitsune just means “fox,” with no connotation of good or bad fortune…?

Now, a Japanese restaurant named oni (ghost), that I’d avoid. :wink:

Another one:

I was in New York last year, and I saw this Mexican/Soul Food place caled Nacho Mama’s.

Highlight of my trip…

My favorite closed years ago, but it was a Kosher Mexican place in CHicago called “Casa Hadassah.”

In Cambridge, MA, we also have this place called “Pu Pu Hot Pot”.

There’s a Chinese restaurant in town called Kung Food.

And I have a picture of a beer joint called “El Punto G”, Spanish for “The G Spot”.

I’m not sure how big the chain is, but in the Louisville, KY area, we have a Chinese chain called “You-A Carry Out-A.”

Big laughs abound at the name of the place.