Chicken noodle soup: Vietnamese man arrested for bad Chinese tattoos

[Snomannen]

The dangers of getting a Chinese character tattoo when the subject — or the tattoo artist — does not read Chinese are by now well-known, and a report Germany's Bild magazine has added a serial offender to a long and ignominious list: a tattoo artist of Vietnamese nationality in Sao Paulo, Brazil who has been arrested for giving his customers tattoos that were far from what they asked for.

A female customer from Germany asked the artist for a tattoo on her shoulder of the Chinese translation for "You are responsible forever for that which you tame," a quote from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. This would have been a lengthy and probably ill-advised translation in any case, but the woman got far worse — the three Chinese characters that mean "chicken noodle soup."

She was not the only victim of the renegade tattoo artist, whose motives are unknown. Another woman asked for "fire, strength, faith" and went away with the words "Thailand church tree" engraved on her body. Possibly the most egregious example of the artist's contempt was when a man reportedly asked him for a tattoo which said "God is a lover" in Chinese; instead, he got "Ralph is an asshole."
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I finally know why is there so many people wearing Han Chinese tattoo in stupid meaning...

 

[Raphael]

Why would they trust Vietnamese tattooist? They renounced Chinese characters and have no knowledge of them any more. Should have asked instead for a Vietnamese tattoo with all those diacritics.

 

[gambit]

Why would they trust Vietnamese tattooist? They renounced Chinese characters and have no knowledge of them any more. Should have asked instead for a Vietnamese tattoo with all those diacritics.

You need to learn how to read the news and exercise a little bit of critical thinking. Just because the article mentions the nationality of the tattooist, it does not mean his customers knew.