‘Bite Fart Cafe’ and other rude signs from Eastern Europe and Central Asia 

Whether it’s Puke bottled water or a Diks shoe shop, I just can’t resist collecting rude, funny or simply strange signs. Yes, I have a very childish sense of humour. 

BITEFARTCAFE. Is it Bite Fart Cafe or Bitef Art Cafe at Kalemegdan Fortress in Belgrade, Serbia? Who knows. Who cares. I’m not eating there. 

More windy marketing from FART Medicine Research & Production Enterprise of St Petersburg, which produced a bag of potting compost I bought in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

And the flatulent theme in this collection of rude signs continues on the side of this lorry snapped outside Chisinau, Moldova. I photographed this from the bus on my way back from a trip to Tiraspol, Transnistria.

I can only imagine what’s for sale at Bumbugur market in Ulanbataar, Mongolia. Probably not what the name suggests though. 

And finally some rude body part fun. This shoe shop in Kazakhstan is called DIKS (perhaps FEET would have been a better name?)

Same for this Titiz branded hand soap dispenser spotted in the ladies toilet at Stary Edgar restaurant in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. If you want to check it out yourself – and to have some tasty food in a nice, relaxed atmosphere at the same time – Stary Edgar’s is in the basement of the Russian Drama Theatre just south of Chui Prospekt.

‘Shitet’ means ‘for sale’ in Albania — but no reason for non-Albanian speakers not to have a good laugh at those signs. They were both photographed during a recent visit to the seaside town of Saranda.