This delightful, though probably hopelessly misrepresentative item: Taiwan official urges people to stop changing their name to ‘salmon’. The motivation is a promotion at a sushi restaurant.
“I just changed my name this morning to add the characters ‘Bao Cheng Gui Yu’ and we already ate more than Tw$7,000 (£176),” a college student surnamed Ma told the TVBS news channel in southern Kaohsiung city.
Roughly translated, Ma’s new moniker means: “Explosive Good Looking Salmon.”
I don’t think I’d realised just how unrelentingly miserable the news had felt for some time now.