Chateau de Chine/蝦頭的腥

In Formosa (aka Taiwan), there is a hotel chain called Chateau de Chine.

翰品酒店的洋文名原來叫 Chateau de Chine.

In case you are American, "Chateau de Chine" is French. It means "Castle of China." A Formosan hotel has a Chinese name in French. I wonder what kind of identity crisis they are having, eh? Is none of those three countries alone good enough for them?

如果你以為 Chateau de Chine 是英文名，那你就慫斃了：那是法文，讀作『蝦頭的腥』。其中『蝦頭』是『城堡』的意思；『的』還是『的』；『腥』的是法文的『拆哪』，也就是拆哪人所號稱的『中國』。Chateau de Chine 譯作漢文，就是『拆哪的城堡』。好好一家在臺灣的飯店，取個法文名，就算是要『照顧』來自法國的觀光客，幹嘛還要沾『腥』？人家要沾『腥』，可以去『腥』。還來臺灣幹麼？

當年來打狗的法國人畫的打狗地圖叫「撲郎的打狗」(Plan de Takao)。那麼，「拆哪城堡」為何會變成「蝦頭的腥」呢？是紀念法「腥」戰爭？還是期待法國人來「解放」「腥」國？

When French came to Takao, they drew "Plan de Takao." I wonder why would a "Chinese Castle" be named in French as "Chateau de Chine?" Is this a reminder of  Franco-Sino war? Or, a wishful thinking of future french take over?

再參考漢文名：「翰品」。其中「翰」林，是古拆哪的中央研究院。難道說「翰」林的「品」味，是「蝦頭的腥」？

Its Chinese name means "Taste of Scholars." I wonder if those scholars would swallow their mouthful of French taste.

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