lol, every form rape? what the hell kind of food is that suppoded to be?

"Canola" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed

prepared any way you want it, apparently.

Perhaps someone who actually understands the language can translate some of those other ones :P

"Rapeseed leaves and stems are also edible, similar to those of the related bok choy or kale. Some varieties of rapeseed (called ÓͲË, y¨®u c¨¤i, lit. "oil vegetable" in Chinese; yu choy in Cantonese; and ²Ë¤Î»¨, nanohana in Japanese) are sold as greens, primarily in Asian groceries."

Dayum!
Thats one helluva long menu!

²Ë¤Î»¨, is it. I had to look it up in my kanji dictionary to actually find out what it means. I didn't know that plant was called 'rape' in english... incidentally, the plant called rape is 'natane' in Japanese.

I dont see what the fuss is about really. I once dated a chinese girl and her mother would always serve me steamed crap.

Hmm. This 'official' list is actually interesting from another point of view besides the chinese image, since it could mean a means of standardization not only for the olympics in China, but also for asian restaurants around the world.

hehehe this is related btw its a .pps file im working on making a .gif one :)

http://files.filefront.com/Engrishpps/;8853382;/fileinfo.html