yeah, Flied Rice! cool idea, mate! i like it! 5$! :)

It Fly Lice you plick!

Aw, I wish it was shlimp flied lice....ha ha ha

and again, it's not CHINESE but JAPANESE that suffers from the L/R nondistinction difficulties.

0 for perpetuating this popular linguistic fallacy

this shirt is clap.

actually because Chinese does has not had consonant clusters since Old Chinese (first millennium BCE) (Norman)it is not an inconceivable error for a modern L1 Chinese native to make in English. other considerations make it possible.

Source is *Chinese* Jerry Norman Cambridge Language Series

Terrible. It's not just a bad design, but it's also pretty damn racist. I hate to go there, but this honestly deserves a negative score.

dude it's not racist - it's TRUE. EVERY Chinese and Thai restaurant's I have ever been in has had blatant misspellings either in the menu or on the buffet labels (on a memorable occasion we tried to explain to a manager why he really ought to change the sign that said "DUMPINGS" at the buffet). This is really not racist at all.

Iiiii like this shirt. I laughed.

It could use some work, though... in order to make it a =really= awesome shirt. Maybe the menu needs a little love.

come on... It's not meant to be racist. I'm chinese and I think it's funny! If you've been to Asia, you'd see mispellings like this all the time.

i liked it until i read the menu - that's a pretty harsh stab, and really not funny

...i'll take the number 5 to go prease!

This offensive and could be considered mildy racist by some.
I love it.

I'm Asian and I think it's hilarious. Some people sure are tight ass on here. You got my 5.

racist? how? What about all the sushi shirts? is that racist, too? get over it, people! this is a cute shirt showing chinese food with a fly on it. how is that racist?

like the design but weird placement...

I do get the spelling errors thing. it is true. However flied rice is a tired old stereotype and yeah, its japanese that do bad r/l sounds. marry that with the unnatractive aspect of eating fried crap or having flies on your food, and you do seem pretty damn insulting. this is low class, my friend. the dumpngs story was funny tho.

get the pole out of ur communal ass, threadless people, and enjoy the fact that this shirt RULES! i would absolutely buy this, and if that offends you, more power to it.
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Nice execution, but this is not gonna fly.

actually, I'd wear this if it was just the pic of the rice bowl and fly

it has more than 5 colors.

I think it's 5 unique colors. I've seen designs with shades of the same color, but I haven't entered in a contest to know all the specs.

BOARDER LINE RACIST... May not have been intended to, but remember abercrombies bug deal? they sold a shirt featuring asian dry cleaners and made national new, lost buisness and looked kinda foolish... we have to be careful not to offend minorities, even if it wasn't intended

*big deal (typo)...
ps, well designed dispite the possible controversy... i like the image of the fly and rice alone, but with the title it gets a little iffy

i live in japan and find this funny, but maybe you should take the dumpings story and make something of it. THAT made me laugh.

What is menu no. 5 meant to be? Flied clap?

The chinese definitely suffer from the R/L confusion. I know a kid who's name is Luke, and the name on the his box of crab rangoons said Ruke.

hahahahahaha! The comments made me laugh as much as the shirt!!!

I love this :D

i think it's better without the comments.. but it's still great 4!

Hahahaha!

Lacist, but I'd buy it. with oput the menu tho.

i'm not a fan of this, actually, which is funny because my family jokes about this fairly often. the thought of the fly is actually pretty disgusting, and the last thing on the menu is pretty.... eh.

Well, it may be true, but you don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to spelling things wrong at asian restaurants and such. You try making a living in China and have no mistakes on signs you write in their language.

eek. can't abide that image at all sorry.

the design is crap and the concept racist. where do you people live, kansas? wtf?

Racist? I think the people screaming racism must live in Kansas. If you live in a multicultural city and visit lots of businesses and restaurants operated by people hailing from other parts of the world, you'll see a multitude of creative and unintentionally funny misspellings, as well as English adaptations of words that are perfectly innocent in the native tongue, but are offensive in ours. I recall a friend trying desperately not to laugh when asking what was in the Fu-king rice. I've seen "fried crap" for sale many times. And as a kid, who didn't laugh at the Pu-Pu platter?

Sometimes things get lost in translation. Other times, humor is found. I'm sure other cultures find just as much to laugh at when our expats attempt to assimilate into their societies. Maybe if we sat down and talked a little more, they'd tell us about what we're missing.

Anyone here from a non-English speaking country? What funny mistakes do English speakers make when they visit or set up shop?

dude, I'm Chinese and I don't think it's racist. It's funny and it's true. I've gone to so many Chinese restaurants where this has happened. I even picked up a book in chinatown called "How Speak English Good" 'nuff said

ok..

Shouldn't it be Flied Lice? Also, the Lunch Special menu is a pretty weak idea and not attractive at all. Bowl of lice, with a fly on it. There's your shirt.

I'm Asian and I think it's funny.

I agree that it should be Flied Lice, just because that's cute.
But the shirt, nonetheless, is funny and clever. Nice work!

it's funny. and i'm not even from Kansas/any other US state. North of Europe, Netherlands. Which you definitely can't call racist. I think. I'm not. So, 5, but not buying because it doesn't make sense in dutch :)

something you usually hear here when ordering at a 'chinese' (more indonesian): 'sambal bij?' (would you like sambal with that?). Lame joke: what's really hot and stings? a sambalbij (a sambal-bee)

you dont only find english spelling mistakes in asian restaurants and places like that. my sister was in a hostel in london and they spelt kitchen wrong. really wrong. also, who cares, its a funny shirt.

This just seems immature and definitely not worth printing on a t-shirt.

it would be better without the menu.

I love rice... I want this shirt!

Should be Flied Lice. Nuff said.

Racist. And if you print this, Threadless, so are you. And if you buy it, I'm on Asian-American who'll be punching you in the face.

$5

these grammar and spelling mistakes are common.. it's not a racist construct, asshats!

You try making a living in China and have no mistakes on signs you write in their language.

nicely said.

you know what it's like to be thought of as ignorant or the butt of people's jokes, just because you're trying to scrap by? not too fun.

Ahhhahh haha let's make fun of the chinese cooks who can't spell!

BRILLIANT!

This shirt is racist and lame and this "joke" is tired. Maybe I'm alone in not finding the hilarity of non native English speakers making mistakes. And I'm real sure that most people on this board are fluent in more than one language. Give me a break and get off your high horse.

i'm chinese, and i think the fact that you're chinese and don't find this offensive doesn't automatically give ignorance a free pass. asian-americans can be just as socially unaware about asian-american social issues as non-asians. so don't play that card. if anything, you disappoint me by being so blind to the oppression that affects you on a daily basis, and validating other people's racism by telling them it's okay by you, the ASIAN. please.

and as for the non-asians who think this is funny - get your heads out of your asses and realize that ridiculing other races is tired and done.

Good job, you made it onto angryasianman.com

Free speech and all, but this is threadless.com, not tasteless.com

I missed the scoring of this... Too bad, I would've given it a 1.

i have to agree that this shirt is racist. just because you're chinese and don't find this offensive doesn't give it the "P.C. stamp". that's just one person's opinion and mine is that this shirt sucks.

stop with the tired stereotypes and actually make a real design.

boo!
lame AND racist! :P

i'm chinese, and i think the fact that you're chinese and don't find this offensive doesn't automatically give ignorance a free pass. asian-americans can be just as socially unaware about asian-american social issues as non-asians. so don't play that card. if anything, you disappoint me by being so blind to the oppression that affects you on a daily basis, and validating other people's racism by telling them it's okay by you, the ASIAN. please.

hintoflime said it very nicely. i'm chinese-american, and i found it degrading and not funny at all.

I'm a bit late to say this...but it's so not racist. It's simply a pun.
Fly. Fried. Get it?... It's a harmless pun to me.
I like this shirt actually. Darn those flies...always flying around my food...which is, coincidentally, often rice. xD