Woman inexplicably tattoos ‘miso’ on her leg
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/02/21
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — An image posted on Twitter on Feb. 16 of a Western woman on
(Photo from @altonwang Twitter feed)
an airplane with the Chinese characters for “miso,” as in the Japanese soup, on her leg has quickly gone viral, with 7,500 likes and 2,000 retweets.
Alton Wang, a Chinese-American who is based in Temple City, California and is an Assistant Director at the Center for Social Innovation in Riverside, California, noticed a Western woman sitting next to him on a plane had the Chinese characters for “miso”(味增), which are also the same in Japanese, tattooed on her right lower leg, as she crossed her legs.
He quickly took a photo of the odd body art, but did not ask the woman as to why she had the Japanese dish inscribed on her leg. It could be another example of poorly translated Chinese characters that frequently find their way on Western bodies, or perhaps she is indeed a big fan of miso soup? [FULL STORY]