Welcome to the mysterious land of Redcoates. This page holds a treasure trove of troubling, tantelizing, true tidbits. We couldn't make this stuff up. Much is culled from menus, signs and overheard conversations, often in ultra-modern languages like Khmerglish, Englithai, Chinglish and English.
Other things come straight to us at our website. It tracks all of the keywords and searches that bring people to our site. Some are obvious (Karen, Jerry, journalism, etc.) Others are not. Not at all.
In all of this, we like to think that if the people who created this errata knew what they did, they would laugh along with us. Newest entries are at the top.


-On a bottle of Chinese shampoo found in Phnom Penh.

Fried Med & Oil - at Psar Chas Restaurant, Siem Reap, Cambodia

"My coconut is very sweet!" Said by boy selling said fruit at the Baphuon, Angkor Wat.

Dodo Rolling Ice - a restaurant in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Sliming Rub Gel - for sale at the Chiang Mai Airport Pharmacy


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Washing Clothes is Strictly Prohibited in the Toilet! - Sign at Walker Forest Inn, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Deconstructed Paris Brest - on the menu at Meric restaurant, Siem Reap

"I love amputees and landmines and things." - Overheard at The Wok, Chiang Mai.

Scamper Egg Toast
La Sweet Corn Soup
Esca Lope
Fong Du
Fishe Dishe - all available at the Ruen Rom Coffee Shop, Chaiyapum, Thailand

Footooth - available only at "Menu Indian Restaurant," Chiang Mai.


In The Nation newspaper, Bangkok, Christmas Day, 2005

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Double-Boiled Chinese - on the menu at the Botanic Gardens Restaurant, near Chiang Mai, Thailand

New Cup and Head - name of hat shop in the Chiang Mai Airport Plaza

Delicious Book - name of menu at Thai Restaurant in the Chiang Mai Airport plaza

Spicy Pork Wits - dish on offer at same

Prevent Fire / Collect Photograph - Sign in Potala Palace, Lhasa

We are all duty-bound to keep the forest away from fire - sign at Leishan, China

"SAVE YOUR POEM OVER THE TIME,
AND CREATE YOUR LIFE. THIS WILL
MAKE YOU HAPPY AND MAKE YOU
SENSEFULL, SPACE WILL BE SO EXCITING"
- on "Family Box Storage Furniture" at Tesco/Lotus store, Chiang Mai

"Live beautifully together with herbs."
- on a Zojirushi Tuffslim thermos at Tesco/Lotus store, Chiang Mai


- Found on the back of a set of self-adhesive felt pads. We're not sure what the third object in the second column is.

"Natural Mystic Toilet" seen on a boy's t-shirt in Bangkok

"I've eaten oysters, but I don't really understand why." Overheard on Nagawicka Lake, Wisconsin.

"You don't sniff before you drink? I always sniff before I drink." Overheard in a bar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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- how to test babies for pot
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- what are the cons regarding communism

"Don't walk cannot to terminal
Don't works cannot successful"
- On a school folder for sale at Robinson Department Store, Chiang Mai

"We are the creator of egg tart"
- Notice at Tops Grocery, Bangkok

"To avoid the risk of taking the wrong baggage which mostly similar looks like."
- Warning on baggage carousel at Hat Yai airport, Thailand

Perfumes for sale at the Mydin Store, Kota Bharu, Malaysia:
Sexy Unisex
Al Sultan
Poison
Abu Nawaz
Pleasures
Saddam Hussein
Darker
Arafat
Opium
Bosnia
Hollywood
Osama
Eternity for Men
Taliban
Escape for Women

Hot Dog Bunga
Bavarian Tart
- Foodstuffs for sale at 7-11 in Kota Bharu, Malaysia

Hot dog + Fun Fried + Egg + Nuget
- At Chicken Chop, Kota Bharu


Wat Pho, Bangkok, Thailand

"Drink Petrol Toilet" - name of a gas station on the road between Mae Rim and Pai, Thailand.

"Mustant vegetable, salade of lame" on the menu at the Neak Meas (Golden Dragon) Massage Restaurant, Sisophon, Cambodia

"Fried water all vegetable" on menu at Steung Sen restaurant, Kompong Thom, Cambodia

"You are my happiness,
You are my sadness,
So we are in love."
-Manoon "John" Laimanee, Thai artist in Chiang Mai

"Fried fish with floor" available at the Karang Mas restaurant, Kupang, West Timor, Inodnesia

"Small Tar Cake $4
Big Tar Cake $6"
- at the 27 Restaurant, Dili, East Timor

Selected Top Keyword Searches on redcoates.net, culled from one year of websearches hitting our site, as ranked by our site host, Earthlink:
1) dolphin skeleton
198) cat autopsy drool mouth
13) sniff glue
86) how to sniff glue
105) how do you sniff glue


Near Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi, Viet Nam

"Sometimes marching for me is not marching. It's reading." - Our friend Chandler, accidental Zen master.

"Sometimes a big bowl of soup is the equivalent of soup ... Soup is the equivalent of steak." - ibid.

"Many downsized art departments to be run by trained frogs." - On a woman's t-shirt in the small village of Thaxi Loro, East Timor.

"Sweetly Odorous Tomato"
- at "Chinese Restaurant" in Phnom Penh

"Four Comrade to Play Fire With Shrimps"
- at another "Chinese Restaurant" in Phnom Penh

"Please take care your everything by yourself because we will not responsible some thing lost." - Placard in a bus between Phnom Penh and Kompong Thom, Cambodia

"Sour Soap with Vegetable Meat"
- at the Teck Hwain Hainanese Restaurant, Siem Reap, Cambodia

"Unicorn pursues the happiness of all the men who work in sewing" - from an ad in the Yangon, Myanmar Yellow Pages

"Burpy pumpkin soup" - at unnamed restaurant, Mandalay, Myanmar

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On the trail leading up Mount Popa, Myanmar.

"Netricul food
Nan Bya (Nan) Narrcty" - at another unnamed restaurnat, Mandalay, Myanmar

"Social workers are substitute parental love bosom for the orphans" - on a government poster in a restaurant in Bagan, Myanmar.

"#4 If you feel unhappy or unsatisfactory you are request to negotiate with the manager." - from The Rules and Regulations of Taung Za Lat Hotel, Bagan, Myanmar

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