Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The things you see...



A flowers roastery.

I'm obviously missing something, but I can't work out what it is.

A mistranslation perhaps?

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

LoL, where is it? In Al Barsha?

Anonymous said...

What I like is your reflection in the shop window.

Emiratesque said...

It's as confusing in Arabic.

Have you seen this?
http://elshahlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/butt-sweet-house.html

Seabee said...

Anon@1.58 no, it's in Satwa.

Anon@2.53, you mean the guy in the white shirt...who isn't shooting a photograph?

El Shahlab, is the Arabic a similar word to 'roastery'?

Wissam said...

Hahaha. It's not a roastery for flowers. It's actually a roastery called "Queen Palace Flowers" (not that that makes more sense!).

Emiratesque said...

Seabee,

Yes..see the little word on the top right? That's 'Roastery' in Arabic. Pronounced 'Mahmasa' with the H sound like the H in 'Mohammad'

Seabee said...

El Shahlab, thanks.

Dave said...

Interestingly the UAE yellow pages has them listed as a "trader of coffee, confectionary, chocolate, flowers, plants and nuts"!

I guessing that it should be "Queen Palace Flowers AND Roastery"..........

Susan said...

It took me years to figure out that a roastery wasn't roasting chickens! Big disappointment!

Seabee said...

Wissam no, it isn't a roastery. As Dave said, they sell flowers and chocolates.