Topic: The Koreana Hotel

[Simon]

Ordering Breakfast at the Koreana Hotel, downtown Seoul.

Be warned, you're going to find yourself talking "funny" for a while after reading this. It was nominated "best email of 1997". A telephonic exchange between a hotel guest and room-service, at a hotel in Asia, which was recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review.....

Room Service: "Morny. Ruin sorbees"

Guest : "Sorry, I thought I dialled room-service"

RS: "Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??"

G : "Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs"

RS: "Ow July den?"

G : "What??"

RS: "Ow July den?...pry, boy, pooch?"

G : "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please."

RS: "Ow July dee bayhcem...crease?"

G : "Crisp will be fine"

RS: "Hokay. An San tos?"

G : "What?"

RS: "San tos. July San tos?"

G : "I don't think so"

RS: "No? Judo one toes??"

G : "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo one toes' means."

RS: "Toes! toes!...why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we bother?"

G: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine."

RS: "We bother?"

G : "No..just put the bother on the side."

RS: "Wad?"

G : "I mean butter...just put it on the side."

RS: "Copy?"

G : "Sorry?"

RS: "Copy...tea...mill?"

G : "Yes. Coffee please, and that's all."

RS: "One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy....rye??"

G : "Whatever you say"

RS: "Tendjewberrymud"

G : "You're welcome"