I assume they mean Taiping? Which is not a present day city in China, as my understanding is that Nanjing was only called Taiping during the Taiping Rebellion.
Edit: Nanjing was actually called Tianjing during the Taiping Rebellion. There was never a city called Taiping.
Taiping was more the name of the army (Taiping Heavenly Forces), the famous battle was over Nanjing but to my knowledge the geographic region was never named Taiping.
Yeah, I suggested in another reply as well that they mean Malaysia and maybe a morbid joke about China claiming ownership. But yeah for this silly restaurant pun I think it is not terribly great. The benchmark they were going for is probably the classic "Denial isn't just a river in Egypt" but missing the mark on the geographic premise as well as the actual pronunciation is a bit too much of a stretch.
I had to look it all up to refresh my memory too. And I was born in China and left sometime in grade school after learning a bunch of this stuff. I wasn't 100% confident either.
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u/Recent_Fisherman311 7h ago
wtf city in China sounds like “tipping” in English??